User blog:Harry Vallet/Cats LIVE!/Score

Many changes will made for Cats LIVE!, mainly modified/new choreography and slight lyric changes to songs. It is loosely based on the Broadway Revival production of "Cats".

General Features

 * New choreography by Kim Duddy and Nick Winston will be added to Andy Blankenbuehler's choreography throughout the show, making it eligible for Song Characters (except Old Deuteronomy and Grizabella) to dance with the ensemble.
 * Many parts of the score will updated.

Opening

 * An animated opening sequence is included, accompanied by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's version of the Jellicle Ball.

Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats

 * Jemima is the first to appear on the set. Munkustrap is the first to enter on the set.
 * Many characters say their first lines in the songs (Victoria has both lines) when they enter the set.
 * Old Deuteronomy and Grizabella do not take part in the opening number hence not present (similar to the third Mexican tour).
 * Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer do a double cartwheel in this number.
 * Victoria swings on the trapeze.

The Old Gumbie Cat

 * The Beetles' Tattoo section in "The Old Gumbie Cat" retained, with Cats wearing Palladium Beetle costumes.
 * The Gumbie trio sing Munkustrap's second verse with him.
 * The number featured new music arrangements as well, in the style of "Rich Man's Frug" from "Sweet Charity".

After "The Old Gumbie Cat"
Munkustrap: So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers - On whom well-ordered households...
 * After "The Old Gumbie Cat", a new piece (in the style of the ending part of "Memory") will be added.
 * Lyrics:

Rum Tum Tugger: ...depend, it appears!

The Rum Tum Tugger

 * Munkustrap sings the "terrible bore" line in this number.
 * A major chunk of MTV's version of the number (sung by Terrence Mann) is included.
 * There is no playout.

Bustopher Jones

 * The Little Gumbies replace Jennyanydots, Bombalurina, and Jellylorum for the first verse. Maitre D' sings the final verse with Bustopher Jones.
 * The first and second stanzas in Bustopher's solo in his song are included.
 * A dance break was added with Bustopher Jones showing Jemima different foods.

Old Deuteronomy
Jemima: Old Deuteronomy sits in the street He sits in the high street on market day The Bullocks may bellow, the sheep they may bleat But the dogs and the herdsmen will turn them away
 * Munkustrap singing the first verse with Rum Tum Tugger, then singing the second verse with Jemima, while the ensemble repeated the chorus two times.
 * The lyrics for the restored second verse are:

Munkustrap: The cars and the lorries run over the curb And the villagers put up a notice "Road closed" So that nothing untoward may chance to disturb Deuteronomy's rest when he feels so disposed

Jemima: The digestive repose of that felines gastronomy Must never be broken whatever may befall The oldest inhabitant croaks

Jemima & Munkustrap: Well, of all things, can it be, really! Yes, no, Ho! Hi! Oh, my eye! My mind may be wandering, but I confess I believe it is Old Deuteronomy!

The Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles
Munkustrap: Now the Peke, although people may say what they please, Is no British Dog, but a winsome Chinese. And so all the Pekes, when they heard the uproar, Some came to the window, some came to the door; There were surely a dozen, more likely a score.
 * This number will be moved back to Act 1.
 * "Heathen Chinese" has been said racistly two times. So, both the "Winsome Chinese" and "Foreign Chinse" lines will be present in this number respectively. The lyrics are for this part is as follows:

And together they started to grumble and wheeze In their huffery-snuffery foreign Chinese. But a terrible din is what Pollicles like, For your Pollicle Dog is a dour Yorkshire tyke.

Queens: He's a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity He hypnotizes with his eyes, his head sways like a snake, like a snake, like a snake
 * The "Tom Pollicle" section of "Pekes and the Pollicles" will be present.
 * Jemima playing the Rumpus Cat instead of Gus.
 * After this number, there is a Macavity scare sung by all the queens that features lyrics from "Macavity the Mystery Cat", but is sung to a different tune.
 * "Macavity Scare" lyrics:

Memory (Prelude)

 * Jellylorum and Jemima's lines are cut in the prelude.
 * An extended moment of Grizabella is included.

Growltiger's Last Stand

 * Restored in Act 2.
 * Jemima playing Griddlebone, taking Growltiger's solo for the original "In Una Tepida Notte".

Macavity the Mystery Cat

 * Neither Macavity or his decoys are present after this number. In other words, after kidnapping Old Deuteronomy, Macavity appears onstage again disguised as him until his cover is blown by Jemima.
 * There's a long dramatic sting after Macavity escapes and the light goes around the set.

Magical Mister Mistoffelees

 * Jemima taking Tugger's place as the main singer of this number. Mistoffelees sings the second verse as well.
 * Jemima and Mistoffelees to a pas de deux different than the one they performed during the "Jellicle Ball", sharing half of the full Conjuring Turn.

The Journey to the Heaviside Layer

 * A spotlight shines onto Grizabella as she ascends to the Heavside Layer via a flying harness.