Cats

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Cats is a long-running, award-winning musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on T.S. Eliot’s "Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats," renowned for its distinctive costumes, choreography, and songs like "Memory."

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Cats canonical 22
Practical Cats poems 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Broadway musical
West End musical
stage musical
additionalLyricsBy Richard Stilgoe
Trevor Nunn
award Olivier Award for Best New Musical
surface form: Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical

Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical
Tony Award for Best Musical
Tony Award for Best Original Score
basedOn Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
surface form: Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
basedOnAuthor T. S. Eliot
composer Andrew Lloyd Webber
costumeDesign John Napier
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
fictionalGroupFeatured Jellicle cats
filmAdaptation Cats (1998 video)
Cats (2019 film)
genre musical theatre
language English
lyricist T. S. Eliot
musicStyle contemporary musical theatre
notableCharacter Grizabella
Macavity
Mr. Mistoffelees
Munkustrap
Old Deuteronomy
The Rum Tum Tugger
surface form: Rum Tum Tugger
notableFeature anthropomorphic cat costumes
extensive dance and choreography
through-sung structure
notableSong Memory
orchestrator Andrew Lloyd Webber
David Cullen
originalBroadwayChoreographer Gillian Lynne
originalBroadwayDirector Trevor Nunn
originalBroadwayTheatre Winter Garden Theatre
originalBroadwayTheatreRunEnd 2000-09-10
originalBroadwayTheatreRunStart 1982-10-07
originalWestEndChoreographer Gillian Lynne
originalWestEndDirector Trevor Nunn
originalWestEndTheatre New London Theatre
originalWestEndTheatreRunEnd 2002-05-11
originalWestEndTheatreRunStart 1981-05-11
premiereCity London, England
surface form: London
premiereDate 1981-05-11
premiereLocation New London Theatre
producer Cameron Mackintosh
setDesign John Napier
setting a junkyard
subjectMatter a tribe of Jellicle cats deciding which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer

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