Spotlight: #CatsManila returns after almost a decade
I hope people will appreciate my candor but CATS was the one musical that I never considered to be on my watch list. Why? The story and well the topic was never appealing for me -- I mean who would want to sit through a 3 hour show about cats? Apparently a lot of people since CATS has been revived so many times and is considered the musical that established musicals as a global industry that could equal big blockbuster movies and TV shows. Not to mention I have a cousin with a severe phobia of the creatures who usually joins me in watching musicals...so yeah, not on my list. But then again when someones asks you if you want to watch a musical, the answer will always be yes and I found myself sitting at the matinee show on November 10. PLOT: Not sure if many people actually know the plot of this musical. It's not just about cats. I was surprised myself that it was actually based on a poetry collection by T.S. Eliot called the Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats wh