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Cats 1998

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"Memories of CATS" by Harry Haun (Playbill, May 1997, Broadway)

As CATS approaches a theatrical milestone, past and present cast members recall their favorite feline moments.

Bernard Jacobs visited his Winter Garden on October 8, 1982 - the day after he, Gerald Schoenfeld, The Really Useful Company Limited, David Geffen and Cameron Mackintosh had transplanted there Andrew Lloyd Webber's musicalization of T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Those who saw him that day recall how blissed out he was.

"For Bernie, even a little excited was a lot, and he was very excited," says Stephen Hanan, one of the Cats in question, "thrilled about the box office. I vividly remember him saying, 'This is going to run longer than A Chorus Line.' It's sad Bernie's no longer with us because I'd love to remind him of that prophesy."

Come June 19, 1997, this prediction turns statistic. A Chorus Line goes feline that day as Cats turns in it's 6,138th performance and becomes Broadway's longest-running show. For almost 15 years the show has been a launching pad for a whole generation

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Theater History: Cats

Whether the musical Cats is your taste or not, any lover of Broadway and literature can appreciate the history behind this legendary show. I think it's pretty perfect a show that profoundly impacted the arts in Great Britain and the United States has historical roots in both countries. Unfortunately, the beautiful Broadway revival of Cats closed on December 30th. So, in the show's honor, I thought I would give you all some background on the history behind the show.

The musical Cats is based on a book from 1939 called, "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" by the legendary writer T.S. Eliot. Before we dive into the history of the musical Cats as we know it, we've got to go way back in time to the early 1900s.

T.S. Eliot, the first hero of this story, was a British essayist, publisher, playwright and literary and social critic. He is considered one of the 20th century’s major poets and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Eliot was born in 1888 as an American citizen in St. Louis, Missouri. (He later renounced his citizens

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Cats (musical)

1981 musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Cats is a sung-throughmusical 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 inv