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In the BagCatsBy VICKIE CHANGPublished on December 11, 2008 at 2:47amYou know: Andrew Lloyd Webber, pomp and circumstance, fucking Memory," seven Tony wins (including Best Musical and Best Original Score), Grizabella the Glamour Cat, cats crawling all over the auditoriumCats! First shown in Londons West End in 1981, Cats is still considered one of the biggest successes in the history of modern musical theater and has since been translated into more than 20 languages for productions around the globe. The story is a slightly bizarre one of a secret cat society, complete with a villain, Macavity, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern types, Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer. Webber based the musical on T.S. Eliots Old Possums Book of Practical Cats, in which Eliot proclaims his affection for assigning cat names and attributes to peoplecats, he says, are very much like us. But with hairier stomachs.
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