ok so last night lamele and i went and checked out cats at the orange county performing arts center! it was super awesome and we had a blasty gettin all dressed up and acting like classy ladies! (notice i said acting. jury’s still out on whether or not i’m actually for realz classy.)

one of the coolest things about it was that i’ve had this “highlights from cats” cd for years and years, but i’ve never actually seen the musical or really knew anything about what it was about.

so i knew most of the songs by heart, but since i’d never actually seen it, there were surprises! some good, like the fact that the rum tum tugger is a total manslut cat, which was really funny. the one bad surprise is when that theater cat is singing about being a theater cat and then all of a sudden decides to perform one of his plays… and it’s weird, and you can’t understand anything he’s talking about, and it kinda goes on too long… there’s cool siamese cats prancin around but i really coulda done without that part…

it totally cracked me up that grisella the old raggedy tore up from the floor up cat keeps coming back to sing basically different versions of the same song – i kept picturing in my head that she was popping her head back onstage going “uh, hey guys, i’m super old, can i get reborn please? lookit how crappy my fur looks!” and it’s like JEEZ give it a rest old duteronomy’s tryin to decide stop pressuring him!!

aaaaaand what else. ok 2 awesome things – i recently bought this shirt from delias:

and am now obsessed with space cats. and at the end of cats, when old duteronomy gets tired of listening to grisella witch and moan about being old and picks her, and they’re on the platform floating up so he can send her to the heavyside lair to be reborn, and there’s flashing lights and crap everywhere and it was all i could do to not yell out SPACE CATS!!! in the theater!!! and then of course i had a massive giggle fit, only stopped by the fist i shoved into my mouth.

the other supremely awesome thing about last night’s show was they were having some technical difficulties with the wireless microphones, equalling a bit of buzzy feedback here and there. not an excessive amount, not enough or constant enough to really be an issue, but at the end of the musical, there’s this huge group number where all the cats are singing, and there’s a big ol’ BZZZZZZZZZZT!!! that happens mid song that just sounds like a humongous fart. it was quite possibly the best thing ever.

which i guess answers the question about whether or not i’m a classy broad…