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A cast recording by the original Broadway cast of the musical Cats was released on January 26, 1983, by Geffen Records. It was later reissued by Polydor in 1993, and remastered in 2005. The recording won Best Cast Show Album at the 26th Annual Grammy Awards.
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.
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 ".
In 1982, Page joined the original Broadway cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats” musical as the Jellicle cat patriarch, Old Deuteronomy, the magical cat who is basically the epicenter of the ...
Buckley made her Broadway debut in 1969 in the original production of the musical 1776; [7] she has been called "The Voice of Broadway" by New York magazine. In 1982, Buckley starred as Grizabella in the original Broadway production of the musical Cats, which features the song "Memory". She stayed with the production for 18 months.
Elaine Paige, who originated the role of Grizabella in “Cats” and reprised the role in the 1998 “Cats” film version, paid tribute to her co-star on X, saying Page “has gone to the ...
Gillian Barbara Pyrke was born in Bromley, Kent, and was a precocious dance talent from an early age, teaming with her childhood friend Beryl Grey while still at school, and dancing to blot out the tragedy of the violent death of her mother on 8 July 1939 in Coventry (as a result of a car crash along with Edward Turner's first wife), when Lynne was just 13 years old.
The character is featured in a ballet solo ("White Cat Solo") as well as a pas de deux in the musical, and leads most of the ensemble dance routines. The role was originated by Finola Hughes in the West End in 1981, and by Cynthia Onrubia on Broadway in 1982. In the 2019 movie adaptation, the role is played by Francesca Hayward. Unlike her ...