The 'Detritus Boys' return from their summer break with a razzlin', dazzlin' fifth episode at Jack's insistence, leading John to the West End, Broadway, Tokyo, Hamburg, and your home VHS collection to discuss Andrew Lloyd Webber's blockbusting, standard-bearing mega-musical hit, CATS.

Recorded weeks before Lord Lloyd Webber raised the muthafuckin' alarm for the future of musical theatre, having witnessed his recent CATS reboot be mercilessly put down, we consider the legacy of the Rum Tum Tugger, Old Deutoronomy, Mungojerrie & Rumpleteazer, Munkustrap, Grizabella, Bustopher Jones and especially, Mr. Mistoffelees. They thought he was on the roof... but he was asleep in the hall!

Equally yet unevenly focused on as the disastrous 2019 cinematic adaptation (19% on Rotten Tomatoes), as well as the 1998 live recording (20% on Rotten Tomatoes) we investigate just why something this bloody successful is also well within our Detritus remit, probably. Which cat do we think should ascend to the Heavyside Layer, aside from the one who clearly will? What would T.S. Elliot have made of this? Was he fatphobic? Have you ever been to a brass rubbing workshop, as we have?

Also on the agenda: What is a Backroom? Has the World Cup rendered John gay? That’s right, Detritus is back, and it’s still the podcast that’s asking ALL the right questions.

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