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The Tony Award winning musical Cats will be coming to the Sudbury Arena on June 1. Tickets go on sale for $72 and $52 starting Nov. 27.

The Tony Award winning musical Cats will be coming to the Sudbury Arena on June 1. Tickets go on sale for $72 and $52 starting Nov. 27.

Hey Fellow 'Taxpayer', we pay heavy taxes also and with a family of five, $75 per person comes to $375 just for the tickets. Do you really think that kids will sacrifice their christmas...

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Nov 24, 2009

By: Bill Bradley - Sudbury Northern Life

The Tony Award-winning musical, Cats, the musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, will be on stage in the Sudbury Arena June 1, for one show only. Tickets are on sale starting at 10 a.m., Nov. 27, at the Sudbury Arena box office.

The show takes place in a junkyard where a number of cats, with different personalities and backgrounds, introduce themselves and take part in various musical performances outlining skirmishes with local dogs and other events.

Cats is based on T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, one of Webber's favourite childhood books.

Produced by Cats-Eye, the national tour of Cats is the only production in North America sanctioned by Webber.

Cats opened May 11, 1981 at the New London Theatre, and in 1982 opened at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City (Broadway).

Cats held the record for longest running musical for both stages for several years, running 21 years on the London stage, and 18 years on Broadway. Les Misérables (London) and the Phantom of the Opera (Broadway) eventually passed Cats.

Seven 1983 Tony Awards went to Cats, including Best Musical, Best Lighting and Best Costumes.

Tickets are $72 (sections 2,3,4,14,15,16 and the floor) and $59 (sections 17,18, 19, 20, 1).

Discounts for groups of 15 or more and for seniors aged 65 and older are available if tickets are purchased at the box office.

Tickets can also be purchased by phone at 671-3000 or online at www.greatersudbury.ca.

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  • Share the Wealth_1 11/24/2009 8:39:14 PM - Report Abuse

    Hey Fellow 'Taxpayer', we pay heavy taxes also and with a family of five, $75 per person comes to $375 just for the tickets. Do you really think that kids will sacrifice their christmas presents for this show? Though it would be amazing and they may go if they didnt have to lose their game boys, ipods or west 49 clothing or band shirts etc., they would not go if it meant they would have to chose. We as parents would not expect then to eiher. We only have so much money for Christmas per person budgeted. $150 to $200 tops per person. We dont buy a lot of candy and pop anymore, our kids are into healthy living and so are we as parents. I wouild miss my glass of wine or creme to cocoa christmas eve, though,and the new pair of pijamas, or other trinkets I dont need, but I dont think the kids would buy me the tickets, either. This will be an awesome show, and I hope I can find a way to buy tickets if they dont get sold out before I even get a chance to put in an order online. I will try, and If I get through, I will likely forfeit my gifts under the tree, for tickets, and buy the kids their regular gifts, though I would have loved to bring then all to the show. My hubby may not go either though, now since it would be a choice between the show, and that new meiter saw he has been wanting, Oh well, I guess I will have to go alone,,,,,,, may feel too guilty though and not bother going at all. /So SAd that I have to choose though.

  • Taxpayer_1 11/24/2009 7:49:10 PM - Report Abuse

    This is a great show. Purchase tickets for Christmas gifts instead of buying extra candy, pop, and stuff no one really needs :)

  • J. Smith_125 11/24/2009 11:37:46 AM - Report Abuse

    That's the problem with being a "small town/market" If we want big names we have to pay for them....our arena only holds approx 6000.
    Compared to the bigger cities who have the larger arenas/venues they can hold 2 or 3 (or more) in paid customers....

    It's the old darned if we do darned if we don't mentality

  • Share the Wealth_1 11/24/2009 11:00:22 AM - Report Abuse

    Wow so good to see something worthwhile like this coming to Sudbury. For those who could afford the extremely high tickets this will be awesome, too bad most of us won't get to go. Why on earth is everything worth seeing over $60? The average working citizen in this city cannot afford to attend this kind of pricy event, especially to go with a spouse or bring their children and go as a family. I would love to go with my husband and three kids. Why can't these shows be offerred to families at discounts, and individual tickets be $25 to $30 each where it would be more feasible. I cannot afford five tickets even at the lower price of $59 each. This is nuts. I hope,Rodriguez, and the city council and their families, and the rest of rich cats injoy this event while they sneer at the rest of us that can't afford this luxury.