#wcd quote

"[Cats] is a very difficult dance show (...) because you're not only dancing the entire time, but you're on your hands and knees and you're climbing and you're laying in positions your body shouldn't be in for long periods of time… When people say 'oh, the show doesn't do it for me' or 'it's just silly' I take offense to it because, as a performer, it's one of the hardest things I've ever done in my life."

"When I did Munkustrap [in 1996, US tour 4], Munkustrap would sing the entire Pekes and Pollicles; it wasn't divided up between anybody else. There's a few choral interjections, but basically it was a patter song only for Munkustrap. And it's a challenge, you know, you'd have to get your mind around all those nonsensical words and story lines... And when I was done with it, I was like, 'oh, thank God I never have to do this again'. Only to find out that in [the Fulton production], they gave it to Gus."

"When I played Tugger I knew I was the party guy. I didn't want to go to the Heaviside Lair, I'm having too much fun!"

"I mean Macavity's got two goons. Where are your goons? (…) You have a whole train. Run him over or something."

Dan Hoy (Munkustrap in US tour 6)

"I had some friends that came and saw me in the show at one point, and [the friend] said that when I came out at the end of act one-- Griz has this little, we call it the broken doll dance, because she tries to be like [the other cats], but she's just too far gone. And my friend was watching, and this little kid behind her, some, like... six year old girl goes, 'she wants to be like the rest of them, but she's too old' or something like that. And [the friend] said her mind exploded because she was like, 'oh my God, that's exactly what was happening, and I was too distracted [to notice].' I think adults are so… trying to rationalize everything that's going on. 'What is this about? What's the plot?' And kids are just absorbing what's happening."

"Gillian Lynne was at the table; she wasn't teaching the choreography, but she was at the table as part of the audition process (…) And I remember being one of the last groups of girls, and Gillian Lynne said to us that she was looking for dancers who were androgynous. She wanted people that could look like animals, and she was specifically looking for 'boys that could dance like girls and girls that could dance like boys'."

"And I figured, you know, Gus has had many, many grandchildren, but he doesn't really remember who's his grandchildren at any moment, so he thinks everybody's his grandchild."