old & busted: cats. new hotness: phantom of the opera

proving once again that american audiences wouldn't know real theatre if it jumped them in a back alley and beat them over the head with a plot, andrew lloyd weber has out done his own mediocrity by breaking his own record for longest running piece of shit on broadway. when you consider how much crap is on broadway in any given year, it actually is quite impressive that he's managed to beat out so many other shows. even if most of them are his.