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Here the Jellicle cats, a flighty, exuberant lot full of larky midnight madness, have assembled for their annual ball. Choreographer Gillian Lynne has superbly schooled her topflight troupe in clawing, stretching, rubbing and comic feline posturing, yet no single dancer convincingly turns into a cat. Lynne is a fluent choreographer, but uninventive. She relies on three main modes-jazz, ballet and acrobatics-which in reiteration become anticlimactic. When a huge boot clunks down in the middle of the chorus in the first big dance number, the touch is deliciously clever but later seems like a prophetic critique...
...extravaganza of song and dance (with hardly a word of spoken dialogue) that is the most highly touted foreign musical ever to hit Broadway. In the previews, which begin this week, these 30 young show people-and their mentors, Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, Director Trevor Nunn and Choregrapher Gillian Lynne-will be workng to turn this $4 million production into a Broadway hit. Says Lynne with a chill of anticipation: "It's like Americans doing Shakespeare and taking it to England...
...American Cats were, at first, more perplexed than critical. "When Gillian showed us the steps," says Hector Jaime Mercado, 33, "they looked like the most peculiar damn things-no sense of flow or rhythm." Steven Gelfer knows why: "To turn us into cats, Gillian has departed from the traditional dance vocabulary. Her movement is difficult and very exciting." She is ever on the move, urging her dancers: "Think jazz. Think under the beat, not on it. Step over a huge piece of marshmallow, something soft. Those bottoms could be naughtier! And now, let's do it once more, just...
...exploded, the men on horseback saluted the fallen with upraised swords. It was a typically British display of 2 grit. Prime Minister Thatcher visited wounded members of the Green Jackets in London's St. Mary's Hospital. She moved from bed to bed and stopped to console Gillian Ward, 22, whose husband David, a clarinet player, lay heavily bandaged. Said Thatcher: "These brave young men are an example to us all." Sadly, too many more innocent men and women will be called upon for such bravery as long as cold-blooded terror is used as a political weapon...
...Salvation comes in the person of a riverman, Vince (Graeme Eton), who puts the boat back on course. Vince knows how to do everything, it seems, and, after a day or two of amiability, displaces Keith as captain, humiliates Alistair and, with the help of a lady friend (Gillian Sevan), pulls down the Union Jack and unfurls the pirate's flag, the JoUy Roger. Alistair meekly puts up with it all; only when his wife's life is threatened does he reassert his rightful place...