Cats Lyrics
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From the Album
1. Overture
2. Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats
3. The Old Gumbie Cat
4. The Rum Tum Tugger
5. Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town
6. Mungojerrie And Rumpleteazer
7. Old Deuteronomy
8. Beautiful Ghosts (Victorias Song)
9. Magical Gus
10. Gus: The Theatre Cat
11. Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat
12. Macavity
13. Mr Mistoffelees
14. Memory
15. The Ad-dressing Of Cats
16. Beautiful Ghosts
From the Album
1. Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats
2. The Naming Of Cats
3. The Invitation To The Jellicle Ball
4. The Old Gumbie Cat
5. The Rum Tum Tugger
6. Grizabella
7. Bustopher Jones
8. Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer
9. Old Deuteronomy
10. The Jellicle Ball
11. Grizabella The Glamour Cat
12. The Moments Of Happiness
13. Gus The Theatre Cat
14. Growltigers Last Stand
15. Skimbleshanks The Railway Cat
16. Macavity: The Mystery Cat
17. Mr. Mistoffelees
18. Memory
19. The Journey to the Heaviside Layer
20. The Ad-dressing of Cats
Other Songs
Be My Day
Bustopher Jones
Come Sunday
Dance
Freedom Bird
Grizabella
Grizabella The Glamour Cat
Growltigers Last Stand
Gus The Theatre Cat
I Gotta Know Whats Going On
Jellicle Song For Jellicle Cats
Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats
Lets Dance
Lover Come Back to Me
Macavity
Macavity: The Mystery Cat
Marian
Memories
Memory
Mr. Mistoffelees
Mr. Mistoffolees
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer
Mungojerrie And Rumpleteazer
Old Deuteronomy
One Way Wind
OVERTURE
Rock n Roll
Save the Last Dance for Me
SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR SOMEONE WHO CARES
Scarlet Ribbons
Skimbleshanks The Railway Cat
The Ad-dressing of Cats
The Invitation To The Jellicle Ball
The Jellicle Ball
The Journey to the Heaviside Layer
The Moments Of Happiness
The Naming Of Cats
The Old Gumbie Cat
The Rum Tum Tugger
Times Were When
Why
Wie spricht man eine Katze an
Cats is a sung-through musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. The musical tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make the "Jellicle choice" by deciding which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life. As of 2024, Cats remains the fifth-longest-running Broadway show and the eighth-longest-running West End show.
Lloyd Webber began setting Eliot's poems to music in 1977, and the compositions were first presented as a song cycle in 1980. Producer Cameron Mackintosh then recruited director Trevor Nunn and choreographer Gillian Lynne to turn the songs into a complete musical. Cats opened to positive reviews at the New London Theatre in the West End in 1981 and then to mixed reviews at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway in 1982. It won numerous awards including Best Musical at both the Laurence Olivier and Tony Awards. Despite its unusual premise that deterred investors initially, the musical turned out to be an unprecedented commercial success, with a worldwide gross of US$3.5 billion by 2012.
The London production ran for 21 years and 8,949 performances, while the Broadway production ran for 18 years and 7,485 performances, making Cats the longest-running musical in both theatre districts for a number of years. Cats has since been revived in the West End twice and on Broadway once. It has also been translated into multiple languages and performed around the world many times. 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.
Cats started the megamusical phenomenon, establishing a global market for musical theatre and directing the industry's focus to big-budget blockbusters, as well as family- and tourist-friendly shows. The musical's profound but polarising influence also reshaped the aesthetic, technology, and marketing of the medium. Cats was adapted into a direct-to-video film in 1998 and a feature film in 2019.
-Wikipedia
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Musical Lloyd Webber began setting Eliot's poems to music in 1977, and the compositions were first presented as a song cycle in 1980. Producer Cameron Mackintosh then recruited director Trevor Nunn and choreographer Gillian Lynne to turn the songs into a complete musical. Cats opened to positive reviews at the New London Theatre in the West End in 1981 and then to mixed reviews at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway in 1982. It won numerous awards including Best Musical at both the Laurence Olivier and Tony Awards. Despite its unusual premise that deterred investors initially, the musical turned out to be an unprecedented commercial success, with a worldwide gross of US$3.5 billion by 2012.
The London production ran for 21 years and 8,949 performances, while the Broadway production ran for 18 years and 7,485 performances, making Cats the longest-running musical in both theatre districts for a number of years. Cats has since been revived in the West End twice and on Broadway once. It has also been translated into multiple languages and performed around the world many times. 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.
Cats started the megamusical phenomenon, establishing a global market for musical theatre and directing the industry's focus to big-budget blockbusters, as well as family- and tourist-friendly shows. The musical's profound but polarising influence also reshaped the aesthetic, technology, and marketing of the medium. Cats was adapted into a direct-to-video film in 1998 and a feature film in 2019.
-Wikipedia