Sabrina here, aka the newest MacBlog blogger! (MacBlogger? Is that a thing?) I hope everyone's been have a great first month so far! I just want to start out with a little bit about myself before I get into the reason for the title. I'm a freshman (woo, Class of '20!) at Macaulay @ Hunter, and I plan on majoring in English. I'm dorming at Brookdale, and my favorite thing about it so far is how there are only like three! working!! dryers!!! Just kidding. But really, dorming's great, because I've gotten to meet and know a lot of people that I probably wouldn't have run into otherwise.
Alright, onto the Jellicle Cats. So my friend had the luck of winning the Cats lottery yesterday...Sidenote: my other friend also won the Wicked lottery a few weeks back. We're all in the same seminar class. To everyone in Neary '16: enter all the Broadway lotteries.
Back to singing cats. We went up to the Neil Simon Theatre after braving all of the chaos that is New York City rush hour, but we didn't have time for dinner. I had to buy $7 trail mix at the theater so I wouldn't interrupt the music with the inevitable growling from my stomach.
I've got to say, there was absolutely no plot to it at all. Maybe just the tiniest hint of it. They just sang and danced and introduced more cats till the very end. I still don't really get what a Jellicle cat is, or why everyone hated Grizabella so much. But the music and the singing and the dancing: all amazing. I was literally singing Memory until I went to sleep.
The moral of this post: enter the Broadway lotteries! Go see Off-Broadway shows! Off-Broadway shows are 2-for-1 from September 26 to October 9; take advantage of that! And if anyone ever wins the Hamilton lottery, remember who was kind enough to convey this moral to you.
