Track Listing DISC 1: 1. Overture 2. Prologue: Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats 3. Naming of Cats, The 4. Invitation to the Jellicle Ball, The 5. Old Gumbie Cat, The 6. Rum Tum Tugger, The 7. Grizabella, The Glamour Cat 8. Bustopher Jones 9. Mungojerrie and Rumpel Teazer 10. Old Deuteronomy 11. Jellicle Ball, The 12. Grizabella, The Glamour Cat 13. Memory
DISC 2: 1. Moments of Happiness, The 2. Gus: The Theatre Cat 3. Growltiger's Last Stand 4. Skimbleshanks 5. Macavity 6. Mr. Mistofflees 7. Memory 8. Journey to the Heaviside Layer 9. Ad-Dressing of Cats, The
| Details | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes The Original London Cast of CATS is currently only available in the UK on Polydor. Music composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Based on a book by T.S. Eliot. Principal cast: Elaine Paige (Grizzabella); Brian Blessed (Old Deuteronomy/Bustopher); Paul Nicholas (Rum Tum Tugger); Wayne Sleep (Quaxo/Mr. Mistoffelees); Myra Sands (Jennyanydots); Finola Hughes (Victoria); Sarah Brightman (Jemima). Composer: Andrew Lloyd Webber. Andrew Lloyd Webber's epic Cats takes its characters from T.S. Eliot's book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Though the book contains no narrative structure, Webber has created one, although what drew audiences to the theatre in droves was the charm of the feline characters, not the tale of what happens to them. The score is rather fetching but simple, with moments of elegance, as in during the now-standard "Memory." The longest-running musical of its time, Cats is at times overrated, but as a whole it retains the charm that attracted audiences. This version contains Elaine Paige's U.K. Top Ten recording of "Memory." ~ William Ruhlmann and Sarah Erlewine
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