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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.
The stage version also features different lyrics as it was felt that a kitten would not sing about the same hard times as Grizabella. [12] The first commercial release of "Memory" was an instrumental single performed by guitarist Gary Moore. It was released in early 1981 by MCA Records to promote Cats while the musical was still in development ...
All tracks written by T. S. Eliot and Andrew Lloyd Webber, with any additional writers noted. [1]In the later Polydor reissue of the recording, the third track on disc two is incorrectly listed as containing "The Ballad of Billy McCaw", a duet based on an unpublished poem by Eliot that was used in the original London production.
Grizabella the Glamour Cat is a main character in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. Lonely and decrepit, Grizabella seeks acceptance from the other Jellicle cats but is initially ostracised. She sings the most famous song from the musical, " Memory ".
The cast for the film consists of former and contemporary members of various international stage productions of Cats, who were invited to reprise their stage roles.Among the cast were Elaine Paige and Susan Jane Tanner who originated the roles of Grizabella and Jellylorum in the West End respectively, and Ken Page who originated the role of Old Deuteronomy on Broadway.
Jellylorum is a principal character in the musical Cats.One of the Jellicle cats, she is usually portrayed as a motherly caretaker and is principally a vocalist.The musical is based on the 1939 collection of poems by T. S. Eliot from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and Jellylorum is named after the poet's own cat.
The 1976 film Logan's Run has the old man offering one of his Jellicle cats to Logan.. Since 2014, the refrain of “Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats” from the musical cast recording has been a running gag on the animated series BoJack Horseman; the refrain plays on a loop as the “on hold” music for anthropomorphic cat Princess Carolyn.
He functions as the show's main narrator, singing several songs and introducing many of the other cats. When Macavity attacks the tribe, it is Munkustrap who fights him off. Munkustrap's relationship with the other characters is depicted in the musical: he reveres Old Deuteronomy, watches out for the reckless younger members of his tribe. [2] [3]