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🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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When Andrew Lloyd Webber’s original Broadway production of the musical Cats premiered in 1982, a young dancer named Timothy Scott was just entering his prime. Cast in the role of Mr. Mistoffelees, he left audiences (including a young Mo) spellbound with an acrobatic dancing that seemed to defy physics. But before the end of the decade, Scott was a victim of the AIDS crisis. 35 years after his death, Mo remembers Tim Scott and his dazzling talent, with help from his partner Norman Buckley and Broadway legends Betty Buckley, Baayork Lee and Ken Page.
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0:00.0 | I love you, I love you. |
0:12.1 | Growing up in the Maryland suburbs outside of DC, Broadway was just far enough away to |
0:18.4 | seem like another world, a magical one. |
0:22.4 | So it's no surprise that some of my fondest memories are of the train trips I'd take with |
0:27.8 | my parents to go and see Broadway shows. |
0:31.9 | First was the musical Barnum starring Jim Dale. |
0:43.0 | After that, I think it was Annie. |
0:46.2 | I don't need anything but you. |
0:49.4 | Both were great shows, but the trip we took in February of 1983 was next level. |
0:57.0 | We were going to see a show that was nothing short of an event. |
1:01.8 | I loved Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats, even before I saw it, and not in an ironic |
1:08.6 | way. |
1:09.6 | I played that original Broadway cast album until the vinyl almost melted. |
1:14.9 | The song Memory? |
1:16.3 | Instantly unforgettable. |
1:26.7 | My friend Mario and I would listen to it over and over on the stereo in his family room. |
1:33.0 | And when Betty Buckley would hit that big note, I would grab the nearest sofa pillow and |
1:38.2 | bite it. |
1:39.2 | Look, I was only 13 years old. |
1:49.6 | I honestly didn't know how else to channel the urges it tapped into. |
1:56.6 | When I finally saw the show, as a much more sophisticated 14 year old, my expectations |
2:02.1 | were actually exceeded. |
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