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The bodies of the cat characters were rendered using CGI with digital fur blended with the actors' actual faces. [59] In an interview with The Daily Beast, a VFX editor who worked on the movie confirmed that an early, half-finished iteration of Cats featured visible anuses. Another crew member is quoted as saying that the appearance was not ...
Page died Monday, Sept. 30, at home in St. Louis, Mo. His talent agent, Todd M. Eskin, announced the news Tuesday; … Ken Page, Voice of Oogie Boogie and Original Cast Member of Broadway’s ...
The Drama Desk Award-winning actor made his Broadway debut in “The Wiz” playing the Cowardly Lion. NEW YORK (AP) — Ken Page, a stage and screen actor who starred alongside Beyoncé in ...
Although Cats is based on T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, Grizabella does not appear in the published source material.Instead, the character came from an unpublished poem by Eliot titled "Grizabella the Glamour Cat" that had been given to Lloyd Webber by Eliot's widow and literary executor, Valerie Eliot. [6]
He died of AIDS-related complications in Los Angeles at age 32. [2] [3] He portrayed Mr. Mistoffelees in the original 1982 Broadway production of the musical, Cats "for about 18 months." [4] He appeared in both the Broadway stage and the film versions of A Chorus Line. He also appeared in other theatre works, including Dancin' and King of Hearts.
Skimbleshanks is a character in T. S. Eliot's 1939 book of poetry Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and in Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 musical Cats, which is based on Eliot's book. The character is portrayed as a bright and energetic orange tabby cat who lives and works on the mail trains.
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.
The killing off of a character is a device in fiction, whereby a character dies, but the story continues.The term, frequently applied to television, film, video game, literature, anime, manga and chronological series, often denotes an untimely or unexpected death motivated by factors beyond the storyline.