Cats Musical Wiki

Welcome to the Cats Musical Wiki
I know about a German Cats Wiki, but this is all special for the English speaking fans. We'll have as much info as we can on the characters, the actors/actresses, the songs, everything we can find! Anyone who can add any information please do, the more the merrier!

A Little Information On The Tail-Raising Musical Sensation!
CATS, one of the first musicls ever in Britian, is a story on Jellicle Cats and the Jellicle Ball, with minor events that happen on the way. The Jellicle Leader (Old Dueteronomy) is supposed to make the Jellicle Choice "Right before dawn" to see which elderly cat will journey to the Heaviside Layer and be re-born, and come back to different Jellicle life. Munkustrap is the story teller, and gets helped along the way by Bombalurina and Demeter, two of the older queens. Macavity is the antagonist in the story and is "Wanted or Everything" but when you get to the scene of crime, he is always miraculously not there.

CATS opened on Broadway in 1982, West End a year prior, and is based off of T.S. Elliot's poetry, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Andrew Lloyd Webber composed the music and set the poetry to it, and Gillian Lynne choreographed it. Trevor Nunn directed it. It had won numerous awards is most praised for it's hit song, "Memory" (sung then by Grizabella the Glamour Cat, an old Glamour queen who is shunned by the older Jellicles).

In 1997 a production was filmed and put in stores in 1998. It is the 2nd longest running British musical on Broadway (17 years as of 2000, it isn't on Broadway anymore) and 4th longest running in all of Musicals that hit Broadway.