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Cats – 7.485 shows
The musical ‘Cats’, produced by Cameron Mackintosh, is a musical reworking of T. S. Eliot’s ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’ by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, and features the song ‘Memory’ as one of its highlights. In the musical, the Jellicles – a tribal group of cats – must determine which cat will be chosen to journey to the Heaviside Layer to experience a form of rebirth. This weighty decision is described as ‘the Jellicle choice’. The award-winning show first opened in London in 1981 with Trevor Nunn as director and choreographer, Gillian Lynne, before moving on to Broadway to set even more records. ‘Cats’ has achieved global success and has been translated into foreign languages at least 20 times.
