There's no one like Macavity

Morning started (too late) with a Kultainen Kuukkeli judges' meeting - yes, I'm one of the judges again this year. Quite interesting, although there seemed to be quite a lot of consensus on most of the issues. The biggest problem will no doubt be to agree with the "best entry" category.

Today is Chu's last day, so we did a final round of the places she wanted to visit - mainly Granville Island and Lululemon and Lush on Robson, before heading to Queen Elizabeth Theatre to see the musical Cats.

My Cats fandom probably begun when we first sung Memory at school like probably half of the schoolkids in the world, and then my parents took me to see the performance in Helsinki. At that time I was a very sensitive musical youngster, so I didn't appreciate the Finnish version too much, as there weren't enough musically talented actors to perform this quite a challenging piece. However I did get the record of the original English performance which I listened to quite a lot, I can still easily recall and hum all the tunes. I couldn't really speak (or understand) English back then, so I can't say I remember the words - in fact I found it exiting tonight that I could actually understand more now than back then.

No wonder Cats is a classic. It's funny, it's sad, it's exiting and the music is what I've come to expect from Webber, clever and easy to remember tunes and songs. It was nice to hear the music once again, most of the singers were excellent (except for the little cat that sang Memory in two occasions), dancing was first class - the only thing the surprised me that the costumes were down to a t exactly like I remember them... I would have expected a bit of variation or modernisation, but I guess they have wanted/had to keep the same all these years.

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