Things I found in a magazine at the theatre... All apparently true!
CATS has been performed in over 300 cities, 26 countries, 11 languages!! (whoo!)
More than 8 000 000 people have seen it in London alone!
And here are some more surprising ones...
(All referring to London)
In makeup, they used 72 batches of eye shadow, blusher, lipstick and mascara per year, and 10800 make up sponges!!
Wardrobing replaced 5 pairs of shoes/week, and 100 reels of thread/month!
At a rate of 50 per week, the sound department have used 54 600 batteries over the 21 years! And 30 new mikes/year. And 50 new aerials/year.
32 432 lightbulbs have been changed in the theatre, and 31 367 feet of cabing used!
49875 posters have been used to cover the stage along with 498 gallons of varnish!
As for the seating in the theatre... 8573 seats have been replaced!
In box office, they've used 108 108 paper cups, 1 791 720 envelopes - and taken 43, 924 headache pills!!!
Stage management have taken 54 600 headache pills!!
And 628 992 sore throat pills have been distributed...
(...you wonder just how they keep track of this, right? Health & Safety?)