{"id":2405,"date":"2019-12-20T09:51:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T09:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/petdedicated.com\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2019-12-20T09:51:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T09:51:30","slug":"the-true-story-of-how-cats-became-a-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petdedicated.com\/?p=2405","title":{"rendered":"The True Story of How \u2018Cats\u2019 Became a Phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How \u2018Cats\u2019 The Musical Became a Phenomenon\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/48rSTGEWhEg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCats,\u201d the eccentric musical now dancing its way to the silver screen, first debuted nearly 40 years ago, becoming one of the biggest pop culture hits of its time. \u201cPeople forget that because it ran so long on Broadway that it eventually became sort of a tourist show,\u201d explained Nancy Coyne, who oversaw all of the marketing campaigns for \u201cCats.&#8221; \u201cBut when it opened on Broadway, it was definitely the &#8216;Hamilton&#8217; of its age.\u201d InsideEdition.com\u2019s Leigh Scheps has more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCats,\u201d the eccentric musical now dancing its way to the silver screen, first debuted nearly 40 years ago, becoming one of the biggest pop culture hits of its time. \u201cPeople forget that because it ran so long on Broadway that it eventually became sort of a tourist show,\u201d explained Nancy Coyne, who oversaw all of the marketing campaigns for \u201cCats.&#8221; \u201cBut when it opened on Broadway, it was definitely the &#8216;Hamilton&#8217; of its age.\u201d InsideEdition.com\u2019s Leigh Scheps has more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[698,6,1556,5,718,6201,624,710,685,992,4,871,7,759,6195,760,761,6196,41,6198,762,6197,6194,3,636,6200,6199],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andrew-lloyd-webber","tag-animals","tag-broadway","tag-cats","tag-cats-cast","tag-cats-cast-movie","tag-cats-movie","tag-cats-musical","tag-cats-trailer","tag-celebrity","tag-dogs","tag-entertainment","tag-funny-animals","tag-ie-entertainment","tag-ie-oscars","tag-inside-edition","tag-inside_edition","tag-leigh-scheps","tag-movie","tag-movie-musical","tag-movies","tag-movies-2019","tag-oscars","tag-pets","tag-taylor-swift","tag-the-movie-cats","tag-what-is-cats-about"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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