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I was first introduced to Cats  in my sixth grade music class.  Which, trust me, is the last thing you want to watch while in the same room as a herd of twelve-year-old boys.  People in strange wigs and skintight suits gyrating their hips and rubbing their heads against other people's crotches.  I was horrified and I wanted to go home. In trying to convince myself how much I hated it, I found the film uploaded in segments to YouTube, and as it turns out, without the outside influence, I fell in love with it. I fell in love hard.   The music, the costumes, simply how different it was from any other musical I had seen in my life, the characters and the actors' different interpretations of them, and the energy of the fellow devoted fans - all of it was and continues to be pure magic. I'm sure most of you have at least heard of the phenomenon that is Cats,  but you may not be as familiar with it as you think.  Despite popular belief, it does ...