Judi Dench graciously claims there to be “no villains in the making of Cats”

We live in a completely different world than that of December 2019, and not just because of political, medical, and climate crises. That month brought Tom Hooper’s adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats, and many have never recovered. Count Dame Judi Dench among them, who writes in her upcoming memoir, Is It Too Late To Make A Run For It?, “Oh God, I can’t bear it.