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Cats : complete original Broadway cast recording
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- Creator
- music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Los Angeles : Geffen Records, [1983]
- ©1983
- Physical Details
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- 2 audio discs : 33 1/3 rpm ; 12 in
- OCLC
- ocm09850107
- Credits
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- Original Broadway cast ; René Wiegert, musical director
- Musical comedy based on T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's book of practical cats.
- "Prologue" additional material by Trevor Nunn, Richard Stilgoe, music.
- "This recording ... contains most of the music of the Broadway production ... which opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on October 7th, 1982. There are some small alterations and cuts for recording purposes ... "
- Lyrics on 2 inner sleeves inserted in container.
- Overture (2:47) -- Prologue : Jellicle songs for jellicle cats (5:17) -- The naming of cats (3:00) -- The invitation to the jellicle ball (2:07) -- The old gumbie cat (3:40) -- The Rum Tum Tugger (3:40) -- Grizabella, the glamour cat (3:05) -- Bustopher Jones (3:07) -- Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer (4:27) -- Old Deuteronomy (3:33) -- The jellicle ball (9:34) -- Grizabella (4:17) -- The moments of happiness (3:14) -- Gus, the theatre cat (6:38) -- Growltiger's last stand (11:42) -- Skimbleshanks the railway cat (4:53) -- Macavity (8:23) -- Mr. Mistoffolees (4:24) -- Memory (5:20) -- The journey to the heaviside layer (2:43) -- The ad-dressing of cats (4:17)