", "Raposo writing Broadway shows for families", "Cats review – glamourpuss Nicole Scherzinger hits high notes in carnival revival", "Pawing through our memories of Cats in Australia", "West End theatre renamed after Cats choreographer Gillian Lynne", "T.S. [270] This production was revived and toured South Korea from 2011 to 2012, with Insooni and Park Hae-mi taking turns to portray Grizabella. Eliot's widow Valerie Eliot dies at 86", "Faber & Faber: The Untold Story of a Great Publishing House by Toby Faber – review", "BoJack Horseman Is the Funniest Show About Depression Ever", "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt serves up a lackluster penultimate episode", "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Does Cats as Only Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Can", "One-Man Show Cat Brings "High Kicks and Swearing" to Northern Ireland Tonight", "Review of CAT – (THE PLAY!!!) [355], A Cats postage stamp was issued by the United States Postal Service in 2000 as part of its Celebrate the Century series. He is the cat who is unofficially in charge of the night train to Glasgow. ", "The Memory Lives On – A New 'Cats' Tour in 2013", "Susan lands glamourpuss role for Cats Dublin run", "Jane McDonald on playing Grizabella in Cats: "I didn't think for one minute I'd get the part, "Cats: Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Opera House, Manchester, 30 January to 13 February 2016", "劇団四季『キャッツ』新たな専用劇場をお披露目！「キャッツ・シアターは思い出を辿る場所」", "Berliner Chronik: Das Musical "Cats" gastiert in der Komischen Oper (5 August 1987)", "Vor 25 Jahren begann mit "Cats" in Deutschland die Ära der Musicals", "A macskák című musical előadásán elszabadult egy kutya", "English Version of West End Musical Cats Still Popular", Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre, "Carré verbouwt en brengt ondertussen weer musical Cats", "Cats moet Vlaamse musical wakker schudden", "CATS To Speak Italian, Set For Compagnia della Rancia 2009/2010 Season", "New UK Tour of CATS to Cross the Channel and Play Belgium in 2013", "E finalmente arriva "Cats"! Act II – Why Will the Summer Day Delay – When Will Time Flow Away? This is the original Broadway cast album, containing slight musical alterations from the earlier London version (and, of course, different singers), though it is not very distinct. Cats on the other hand features four Jellicle-defining songs: "Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats", "The Naming of Cats", "The Jellicle Ball" and "The Ad-Dressing of Cats". [155] In between its limited West End runs, the musical returned to the Blackpool Opera House Theatre in 2015, this time starring Jane McDonald as Grizabella. thirty nine years ago. The number of overnight visitors to the city increased by over one million per year within the first five years of the show's premiere. The first official video recording of Cats is the 1998 film, which was a recreation of the stage production. Long-running foreign productions include a 15-year run at the Operettenhaus in Hamburg that played over 6,100 performances, as well as an ongoing run in a purpose-built theatre in Japan that has played over 10,000 performances since it opened in 1983. [353], Madame Tussauds New York features wax figures of several characters from the musical, including one of Grizabella that sings "Memory" through the use of projection mapping technology. This advertising method had the additional effect of diminishing the importance of critical reviews, popularising the so-called "critic-proof" status of megamusicals. We decided that if Eliot had thought of being serious, touching, almost tragic in his presentation of a feline character, then we had to be doing a show which could contain that material, and the implications of it. "Highlights" denotes a recording that is only available as a selection of songs, designed to fit on a single record/cassette/CD. Known as the "original conjuring cat", Mr. Mistoffelees can perform feats of magic that no other cat can do. A cast recording by the original Broadway cast of the musical Cats was released on January 26, 1983, by Geffen Records. Despite moderate hits with Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, Lloyd Webber was still relatively unknown to the general public before Cats, especially in the US. One of these was "Grizabella the Glamour Cat" which, although rejected from Eliot's book for being "too sad for children", gave Lloyd Webber the idea for a full-blown musical. All the cats back away from her in fear and disgust and explain her unfortunate state ("Grizabella: The Glamour Cat"). The official Cats t-shirt became the second-best-selling t-shirt in the world in the 1980s, second only to the Hard Rock Cafe t-shirt. [324] The cat's-eyes logo was the first globally marketed logo in musical theatre history,[89] and was paired with a tagline ("now and forever") to create what The Daily Telegraph called "one of musical theatre's greatest posters". Stalls were set up in the theatre lobbies to sell souvenirs ranging from toys and watches to coffee mugs, all of which were emblazoned with the cat's-eyes logo. The cats (who break the fourth wall throughout the show) then notice that they are being watched by a human audience, and proceed to explain how the different cats of the tribe are named ("The Naming of Cats"). [11] Meanwhile, Mackintosh recruited Nunn, the then artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), to direct Practical Cats. [202] This Danish production was translated by Adam Price and was one of the largest theatrical productions ever mounted in the country at the time with 100 performers, musicians and stagehands. [21] However, "Memory", an 11 o'clock number for Grizabella that Nunn insisted the show needed as its "emotional centre",[22] still had no lyrics at this point. ", "Behind the scenes of CAT's @ Regent Theatre", "What's a Jellicle Cat? [297], The original London production received mostly rave reviews, with critics hailing it as a watershed moment in British musical theatre. German Tent Tour 2010-2013/Cast Recording 2011, https://catsmusical.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Recordings?oldid=96312. [165], Similar to the original London staging, the set of the 1,200-capacity CATS Theatre is built on a revolving stage floor such that during the overture, the stage and sections of the stalls revolve approximately 180 degrees into place.

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