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MORE THAN NINE LIVES: An iconic ’80s musical with big hair and big costumes, Cats has been produced in more than 30 countries and 15 languages. +
CHRISTOPHE ENA/AP
IT’S IMPOSSIBLE to go into Cats without preconceived notions, but I managed to get pretty close. Having never seen the original Broadway run at the Winter Garden Theatre, where it played for almost 20 years before closing in 2000, my prior exposure to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s feral Tony winner had been limited to occasional YouTube clips and vague childhood recollections of a low-budget TV commercial that played incessantly throughout the 1980s.