Cats Musical Original Cast Recording

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Cats musical original cast recording. I know many cats fans who were raised on elaine paige and the original london cast may be up in arms about this but objectively there is perhaps more fun in this new york version of the musical. Are you blind when you re born. 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. Find album reviews stream songs credits and award information for cats original london cast recording original london cast on allmusic 1998 andrew lloyd webber s epic cats takes its.

This was the first ever cast recording of cats and consisted of the original 1981 london cast that included brian blessed as old deuteronomy and elaine paige as grizabella if you re looking for. I don t intend any yankcentrism but there is an irrepressible energy in this version that isn t there on the original london cast recording. The revisions allow the score to sound more energetic. The musical includes the well known song memory as.

Watch part one of jellicle songs. Dare you look at a king. 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. A live recording is one that was recorded of one or more live performance rather than in a recording studio.

Pre order the cast album now at http disneymusic co froz. This is memory from the 1982 original broadway cast by betty buckley. Lloyd webber oversaw orchestration for the film and called on gillian lynne the show s original choreographer to train the cast for the film. The recording won best cast show album at the 26th annual grammy awards.

A list of all of the official cast recordings of cats. Cats is a 1998 direct to video musical film based on the 1981 stage musical cats by andrew lloyd webber itself based on old possum s book of practical cats 1939 by t. Highlights denotes a recording that is only available as a selection of songs designed to fit on a single record cassette cd. There are also numerous studio recordings made of the music by non cast studio singers which are.