Message for Beijing folks: If you have unwanted stuff hidden in
some corner of your house, go take them out, because they might be
able to decorate the backdrop for the upcoming musical
Cats.
A poster of the musical Cats, which
will hit the Beijing Exhibition Theater on January 19, 2008.
The Tony award-winning musical by British theatrical composer
Andrew Lloyd Webber will hit the Beijing Exhibition Theater on
January 19.
The show's local agency, CPAA Cultural Entertainment Company, is
soliciting props to help the Western musical gain a local flavor,
reported Web portal Sina.com.cn, which is cooperating for the
collection project.
Cats features a set as an oversized garbage dump, and
the one inside the Beijing Exhibition Theater will be piled up with
locals' donations.
Ideal submissions can be car license plates, beer bottles,
home-brand bicycles, or other household items that speak of Beijing
characteristics.
Placing such items on the stage is to shorten the distance
between the performers and the audience, the report said.
Participants are required to send a JPG photo of their stuff to
2008cats@sina.com between
December 27 and January 14, with descriptions of the objects and
their contact information.
Cats, first shown in London in 1981, has been played in
more than 20 languages. It opened on Broadway in 1982 and is
generally considered as the longest-running Broadway musical of all
times.
The itinerary for the musical's upcoming China tour will include
stops in Beijing, Macao, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Chengdu, Dongguan and
Shenzhen.
(CRI December 26, 2007)
