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Is there some supernatural significance to this figure the numerologically disguised shoe size of Andrew Lloyd Webber, perhaps?
Eliots favorite Bible chapter and verse?
At first, she hesitated.
This play doesnt have terribly creative numbers, no offense.
I should start by telling you that.
She reviewed the numbers a second time.
And it has an eight as a pinnacle number, Terry added.
Pinnacle numbers are different from destiny numbers.
Pinnacle numbers are indicators of success.
More millionaires are eights than any other number.
John Paul Getty was an eight.
She considered the number 6,138, which, numerologically speaking, is somehow a nine.
She couldnt say whether this is conclusive proof that cats have nine lives.
But there are nine years in a numerology cycle, Terry said.
So this performance is like the end of one cycle and the beginning of another.
Which could mean, one supposes, that theres plenty of life in the old show yet.
Terry confirmed as much after running another set of calculations:four more years.
Too bad the same could not be said of the playwright.
Is there any connection between this performance and T.S.
she said, repeating our question.
And what of the composer?
When he did this, he knew thatCatswas going to be a commercial vehicle for him, she said.
(The Phantom of the Operahasnt done half badly, either.)
But the next thing he does will not be such a commercial venture.
Then she paused for a moment.
I almost want to saythe next thing he does will be a work of art.
