How many cats are required? What kind of cats - Domesticated house cats, lions, tigers, panthers? If house cats, what color? Orange? Tuxedo? Tabby? Calico?
Does the American Humane Association need to approve this project? Do we need to have warnings in the lobby that "no animals were harmed..." What are we going to do for the actress that is allergic to cats? Do we need to have warnings in the lobby for any patrons that might be allergic to cats?
How are we going to contain the cats from leaping from the stage?
Do we have a cat wrangler? Do we have the budget for trained cats? Where will the cats be kept when offstage? Will we need cages? a cat room? Who will be feeding the cats on the days off? How will we keep the cats quiet backstage? Will they need someone to come in and play with them? How will we cue their entrance?
Will we be recording their lines for voiceover or do we need to find speaking cats? (Can we get that cat that says "nononononono"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKI-tD0L18A ) How will the cats open the refrigerator to get to the ham, as noted in the stage directions? Do we need a foot petal operation as (as far as I know) cats have yet to master opposable thumbs?
Are we sure that we can't go another route? Mechanical cats? (who would program them and do we need to add additional crew to operate / maintain them) Stuffed cats and having actors perform over the video screen? Actors in cat costumes? (Memooooooooooooooooooory!) Actors carrying cats (real, stuffed, puppets, or mechanical)?
Will the cats get program credit? Do they need bios? Are any of them union? Ditto for the cat wrangler / additional crew / cat feeder / cat player.
Are we going to get bad press from PETA for this?
You do know that there is no such thing as Scene XIIV, right?
NEW NOTE: Stanley will need a green umbrella for pg 39 (the scene with the hippos).