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I'm aware of the vore associations. However, were the original characters in the Cats play actually humanoid cats? Or were they just humans dressing up as cats

I'm aware of the vore associations. However, were the original characters in the Cats play actually humanoid cats? Or were they just humans dressing up as cats and the audience was meant to suspend disbelief that what they were looking at were just regular cats? I ask because obviously a play can't get "live talking cats" without human actors but a movie can easily do so with CG. Why did they decide to go with humanoid cats instead of regular cats with voice actors? Was it just to match the aesthetic of the play? Or does the plot actually involve the cats being canonicaly humanoid?

tialaramex 7y ago
The musical is performed in costume. Yes audiences suspend disbelief, just as they do when, say, Romeo clearly isn't really dead in a typical performance of Shakespeare's play. The musical is based on an existing work, a correction of amusing poems about actual cats by T S Eliot. Probably the movie just shouldn't exist. An animated movie of the poems using some famous songs from the musical could have worked for example, but that's not what this is.
- Dylan16807 7y ago
  > The musical is performed in costume. Yes audiences suspend disbelief, just as they do when, say, Romeo clearly isn't really dead in a typical performance of Shakespeare's play. They were asking what specifically the costumes represent. They weren't confused about the concept of costumes in a play. The cats are anthropomorphized somewhat, or they wouldn't be having proper conversations with each other. This already requires suspension of disbelief, accepting that it's a fantasy world. The question is how far that anthropomorphization goes, in the internal logic/canon of the play.
crooked-v 7y ago
The stage costumes (look up 'Cats musical' on Google Images) are basically decorated bodysuits plus facepaint and wigs. They have a lot of subtle touches to keep them intentionally registering as 'acrobatic costume' without tripping uncanny valley issues, like how almost all of them include obvious belts (for the 'tails') and a clear division between body and neck/face even if the facepaint is the same color as the bodysuit being worn.

tialaramex 7y ago

The musical is performed in costume. Yes audiences suspend disbelief, just as they do when, say, Romeo clearly isn't really dead in a typical performance of Shakespeare's play. The musical is based on an existing work, a correction of amusing poems about actual cats by T S Eliot. Probably the movie just shouldn't exist. An animated movie of the poems using some famous songs from the musical could have worked for example, but that's not what this is.

Dylan16807 7y ago
> The musical is performed in costume. Yes audiences suspend disbelief, just as they do when, say, Romeo clearly isn't really dead in a typical performance of Shakespeare's play. They were asking what specifically the costumes represent. They weren't confused about the concept of costumes in a play. The cats are anthropomorphized somewhat, or they wouldn't be having proper conversations with each other. This already requires suspension of disbelief, accepting that it's a fantasy world. The question is how far that anthropomorphization goes, in the internal logic/canon of the play.

crooked-v 7y ago

The stage costumes (look up 'Cats musical' on Google Images) are basically decorated bodysuits plus facepaint and wigs. They have a lot of subtle touches to keep them intentionally registering as 'acrobatic costume' without tripping uncanny valley issues, like how almost all of them include obvious belts (for the 'tails') and a clear division between body and neck/face even if the facepaint is the same color as the bodysuit being worn.