Cats is a sung-through musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. It tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make the "Jellicle choice," deciding which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life. The musical includes the well-known song "Memory" as sung by Grizabella. As of 2019, Cats remains the fourth-longest-running Broadway show and the sixth-longest-running West End show.
The London production ran for 21 years and 8,949 performances, while the Broadway production ran for 18 years and 7,485 performances, making Cats the longest-running musical in both theatre districts for a number of years. Cats has since been revived in the West End twice and on Broadway once. It has also been translated into multiple languages and performed around the world many times.
Tracklisting
Disc 1
1. Overture
2. Prologue: Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats
3. The Naming Of Cats
4. The Invitation To The Jellicle Ball
5. The Old Gumbie Cat
6. The Rum Tum Tugger
7. Grizabella
8. Bustopher Jones
9. Mungojerrie And Rumpelteazer
10. Old Deuteronomy
11. The Jellicle Ball
12. Grizabella: The Glamour Cat
13. Memory
Disc 2:
1. The Moments of Happiness
2. Gus (The Theatre Cat)
3. Growltiger's Last Stand including The Ballad Of Billy McCaw
4. Skimbleshanks
5. Macavity
6. Mr Mistoffelees
7. Memory
8. The Journey To The Heaviside Layer
9. The Ad Dressing Of Cats
