Part 4 of 8 for Turner Feature Animation’s “Cats Don’t Dance” (1997).

Director Mark Dindal on the film’s original concept in 1993: ” It was more of a Broadway show and not the sort of Singin’ in the Rain movie that it ended up being. The songs they had were written by Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shier, who had worked on the stage musicals Big and Baby. There are stray cats that live among the sets and studio backlots and the film was originally a story about the lives of those cats. So the original story had actual cats on 4 legs that could speak; it was more along the lines of Lady and The Tramp.”

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