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FROM THE PLAY CATS
MUSIC BY ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER BASED ON "OLD PSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS' BY T.S. ELIOT.
EACH SIDE HAS ONE ACT TOTALLY 4 ACTS OF THE PLAY.
THIS IS THE ORIGINAL LONDON CAST ALBUM.
YOU ARE GETTING 2 RECORDS THAT COME IN ONE CASE SEEN IN PIC.
Records are mint
Original inner sleeves
THE COVER IS IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE. THE CORNERS ARE A LITTLE WORN
Record 1
1. Cats/Act 1. Overture
2. Cats/Act 1. Prologue. Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
3. Cats/Act 1. The Naming of Cats
4. Cats/Act 1. The Invitation to the Jellicle Ball
5. Cats/Act 1. The Old Gumbie Cat
6. Cats/Act 1. The Rum Tum Tugger
7. Cats/Act 1. Grizabella: The Glamour Cat
8. Cats/Act 1. Bustopher Jones
9. Cats/Act 1. Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer
10. Cats/Act 1. Old Deuteronomy
See all 13 tracks on this disc
Record 2
1. Cats/Act 2. The Moments of Happiness
2. Cats/Act 2. Gus: The Theatre Cat
3. Cats/Act 2. Growltiger's Last Stand Including the Ballad of Billy ...
4. Cats/Act 2. Skimbleshanks
5. Cats/Act 2. Macavity
6. Cats/Act 2. Mr. Mistoffelees
7. Cats/Act 2. Memory
8. Cats/Act 2. Journey to the Heavyside Layer
9. Cats/Act 2. The Ad-Dressing of Cats
In many ways Cats was a turning point for Andrew Lloyd Webber. At the beginning of the 80-is he was already a hugely successful musical theatre composer, thanks to his work with the lyricist Tim Rice on "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Evita". In the early 1980-is he decided to part ways with Rice and many people predicted him a quick downfall, even more so when he decided to use T. S. Eliot's book of children's poetry called "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" as a basis for his next musical. He used then a relatively unknown musical director Trevor Nunn and Gillian Lynne as a choreographer. Cats was imagined as a mixture of pop songs and ballet; by that time an unseen combination for a musical, so it is no wonder that Webber and his producer Cameron Mackintosh had trouble finding financial backup. The show opened in London and became a phenomenon in its own right. It closed in London after exactly 21 years of running in May 2001. The same thing happened when the show came to Broadway in 1982; it closed after 18 years of running, in 2000. Cats thus became the longest running musical in the history of both West End and Broadway.
So you may wonder what it's all about. It's quite simple really. Many people say that Cats hasn't got a story. It's certainly true that the plot is very simple and that's part of the appeal for the audiences. We are presented with a group of special cats, known as Jellicle cats. They meet once a year to decide who among them is worthy to get a chance to be reborn and start a new life. Since we meet them at that precise night, each of them tells us about their lives and habits through the musical numbers. There is one character among them, Grizabella the Glamour Cat, once of great beauty, but now an ugly and dilapidated thing, because at some point in her life, she decided to leave the others in her tribe and get to know the outside world; a move which eventually led her to prostitution. Because of that she is repeatedly rejected by other cats when she tries to make an entrance and compete as a candidate for a new life, determined to change her life style and pursue a happy life style she once knew. So besides the fact that we meet all kinds of different characters that often have characteristics very similar to human ones, Cats at the same time is a wonderful story of redemption and forgiveness. Besides the story the audiences loved the excellent choreography and dancing together with beautiful and distinctive feline makeup each character of Cats had. It is a show that is suited for the young and the old.
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