Debbie Allen's black 'Cat' dazzles

Variety: "Debbie Allen's all-black 'Cat' played to a 90% African-American audience the evening I saw it earlier this month. Critics and first-nighters probably saw this staging with a decidedly more mixed group of theatergoers, and it's possible they, in turn, experienced a very different night in the theater. (Certainly the Tony nominating committee didn't care for what they saw, bestowing not a single nom on the production.) But for me, Maggie's power-struggle for money and sex has never been so naked, and, more important, never has it been more fully appreciated and encouraged."