SYNOPSIS
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MAKE UP

Karen Dawson-Harding, Make-up Designer, joined the CATS team in 1989 for the tour and was asked to create a stylised look for the production. Karen designed the cats?make-up on the faces of the actors, because after all the make-up will end up on the face - a 3D image. Once the make-up has been designed photographs of the front and the two sides of the face are then taken. It is at this stage that Karen then painted the make-up charts you see above. The charts give detailed instructions for colors and shading. Each actor is given a make-up chart, a photograph of how they should look and a bag of the correct cosmetics.

LANGUAGES
Cats has been translated into ten languages.
Japanese, German(three versions for Germany , Austria and Switzerland ), Hungarian, Norwegian, Finnish, Dutch, Swedish, French, Spanish(two versions for Mexico and Argentina ) and Italian. The title of the show has never been translated, The Mexican producers did a survey as to whether the Mexican audience would like their production to be called Gatos - the response in favour of keeping the English original was unanimous.


THEATERS
The show has not only been presented in theaters, but also in tents in Japan and Korea , an engine shed in Switzerland , and school gymnasiums across the USA.


RULES
While current productions replicate the original show as closely as possible, there have been exceptions to this rule, most notably, the Norwegian production which placed the action in an attic, the Swedish production which placed it on the rooftops and the Finnish production whose setting is best described as "futuristic".


AWARDS
The awards that Cats has won include-
the 1981 Laurence Olivier award for Musical of the Year
the Evening Standard award for Best Musical
seven 1982/83 Tony awards including Best Musical
the much-coveted Moli?e Prize for Best Musical in France
seven out of ten Dora Mavor Moore awards including Best Musical in Canada
seven awards in Japan