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A more "serious" version of Cats wouldn't work so Lloyd Weber saying that this movie destroyed his musical feels a little overdramatic. Still didn't like it but was pleasantly surprised by how absolutely wild the film was. Now personally, I didn't mind Cats as much as I thought I would. "The airline wrote back and said, 'Can you prove that you really need him?' And I said 'Yes, just see what Hollywood did to my musical "Cats."' Then the approval came back with a note saying, 'No doctor's report required.'" "I wrote off and said I needed him with me at all times because I'm emotionally damaged and I must have this therapy dog," says Lloyd Webber. Lloyd Weber went on, talking about how close he and the pup got during the lockdown and how he found a way to bring the dog with him to New York City despite travel restrictions. RELATED: You Need to Experience How Dame Judi Dench Described Her 'Cats' Costume So the one good thing to come out of it is my little Havanese puppy." I saw it and I just thought, 'Oh, God, no.' It was the first time in my 70-odd years on this planet that I went out and bought a dog. "There wasn't really any understanding of why the music ticked at all.
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"'Cats' was off-the-scale all wrong," says Lloyd Webber. In fact, he seems to hate it so much that it made him buy a dog. Variety spoke to the famed Broadway composer about Broadway's reopening and more but he gave us all some insight into his feelings on the movie adaptation. But it hasn't been easy for Lloyd Weber since the movie premiered.
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The first? Lloyd Weber's other show The Phantom of the Opera. But despite its failures as a movie, the musical created by Andrew Lloyd Weber is one of the longest-running shows on Broadway. Rebel Wilson as Jennyanydots the Gumbie Cat? Get right out of here. Catscame to theaters at the end of 2019 and blew away the world with its horrific cat-people hybrids, questionable CGI, and wild character names.