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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical light poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It serves as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 musical Cats. Eliot wrote the poems in the 1930s and included them, under his assumed name "Old Possum", in letters to his ...
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.
Pussy cat, pussy cat, what did you do there? I frightened a little mouse under her/the chair. [2] The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first noted by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs (1870). [3] For the original version, there is no 'do' in 'what did you ...
"Memory" is a show tune composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Trevor Nunn based on poems by T. S. Eliot. It was written for the 1981 musical Cats, where it is sung primarily by the character Grizabella as a melancholic remembrance of her glamorous past and as a plea for acceptance.
Farjeon's most widely published work is the hymn "Morning has Broken", written in 1931 which in 1971 became an international hit when performed by Cat Stevens, reaching number nine in the UK charts, six on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, number one on the U.S. easy listening chart in 1972, [13] and number four on the Canadian RPM magazine charts ...
Growltiger's crew of cats is played by male members of the troupe with pirate accoutrements over their cat costumes. There have been two different "last duets" for Growltiger and Griddlebone to sing during this scene. In the original London production, they sing a setting of an unpublished T.S. Eliot poem, "The Ballad of Billy M'Caw".
We wrote 26 songs in two weeks. Eventually, she was like, “I think we need to stop — like, we’re good.” Kate Hudson made her album "Glorious" with her fiancé, Danny Fujikawa, and the ...
In Cats, "The Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles" is performed in the time signature 6 8 as part of a play within the musical.It is sung by Munkustrap and describes a legendary battle between two neighbouring dog tribes, the Pekes and the Pollicles, who bark "until you could hear them all over the park".