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  BY NARENDRA KUSNUR  Cats/ Musical play by Andrew Lloyd Webber Director : Trevor Nunn/ Matt Krzan Produced by : NMACC with GWB Entertainment and LW Entertainment  Cast : Cindy-Ann Abrahams, Andre de Shields, Stephan Van Der Walt, ensemble Rating : *** 1/2 The Jellicle Cats have come to town, to have a Jellicle Ball and make a Jellicle Choice. Grizabella, Macavity, Mungojerrie, Rum Tum Tugger and Old Deutoronomy are on a Mumbai safari, so lessgoo, jive, make some noise. If all this sounds Greek to you, they are situations and characters from Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats , which has its latest run at the Grand Theatre of the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre from June 17 to 28. The sung-through musical, where all characters play cats and kittens in various sizes, traits and costumes, was originally released in 1981 under the direction of Trevor Nunn. The India production has Matt Krzan as regional director, with Peter McCarthy as musical supervisor. It has been pre...

BY NARENDRA KUSNUR  Dil Ka Haal Sune Dilwala/ Hindi play Director : Mohit Takalkar Produced by : Aasakta Kalamanch/ Aadyam Theatre Written by : Sarah Ruhl, translated by Chirag Khandelwal  Cast : Dilnaz Irani, Sagar Deshmukh, Vrajesh Hirjee, Faezah Jalali, Bhaskar Sharma  Rating : *** 1/2 An old and familiar Nokia ringtone goes on and on in a lacklustre cafe, but the phone's owner pays no attention. The waitress, a wannabe starlet called Asha Parekh, soon realises that the customer at the table is dead. A narrator fills in the gaps on how she got there and where things are headed. The latest Aadyam Theatre play Dil Ka Haal Sune Dilwala , directed by Pune wiz Mohit Takalkar, takes you on a trip that begins with a few calls on this cellphone, which Asha (played by Dilnaz Irani) responds to by saying 'Ji' a few times before getting familiar with the darker and wackier secrets of the dead man, Max. DHSD - the production team's abbreviation, not mine - is quite a departur...