Moscow Cat Theater May Be Forced To Close the Doors

The Moscow Cat Theater, an unique Moscow tradition which is world renown, may be shut down soon according to a theater spokeswoman named Irina Vasilchikova. Show says that the Economic Crimes Department has been coming in and stopping shows while demanding to speak to the founder of the theater and it’s chief performer, Yuri Kuklachev backstage.

The UBEP officers searched the safe in the make-up room and then proceeded to accuse Kuklachev of stealing money based in the fact that the ticket sales for the event were 20, but the theater was full. Not only that, but the officers copied the accounts of the theater without his permission while the ownership papers for the building mysteriously disappeared.

Kuklachev says that the audience that day were mostly children from a children’s home who got in for free. He does not want to lose the theater to the State, who e feels wants him out of the building so they can tear it down and take advantage of the real estate value of the space.

Kuklachev began the theater company in 1976 and it has grown to a size of 120 cats who perform on stage with humans in shows like The Nutcracker and Cats From Outer Space.

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