Cats: Original Cast Recording (1981 Original London Cast)
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Composer: Andrew Lloyd WebberOrchestra: Cats Pit Orchestra
Performer: Anita Pashley
Performer: Bonnie Langford
Performer: Brian Blessed
Performer: David Baxter
Performer: Donald Waugh
Performer: Elaine Paige
Performer: Femi Taylor
Performer: Finola Hughes
Performer: Geraldine Gardner
Performer: Jeff Shankley
Performer: John Chester
Performer: John Thornton
Performer: Julie Edmett
Performer: Ken Wells
Performer: Michael Verkoren
Performer: Myra Sands
Performer: Paul Nicholas
Performer: Peter Barry
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-11-14
Music Label: Decca Broadway
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Overture
- Prolugue: Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats
- The Naming Of Cats
- The Invitation To The Jellicle Ball
- The Old Gumbie Cat
- The Rum Tum Tugger
- Grizabella, The Glamour Cat
- Bustopher Jones
- Mungojerrie And Rumpelteazer
- Old Deuteronomy
- The Jellicle Ball
- Grizabella, The Glamour Cat
- Memory
- The Moments Of Happiness
- Gus: The Theatre Cat
- 'Growltiger's Last Stand' Including 'The Ballad Of Billy McCaw'
- Skimbleshanks
- Macavity
- Mr. Mistoffelees
- Memory
- Journey To The Heaviside Layer
- The Ad-dressing of Cats
Free Music Notes for Cats: Original Cast Recording (1981 Original London Cast)
Free Music Review: "MEMORY" DOES IT ALL
Hit: 3 Stars
A good musical, yet not the greatest by Lloyd Webber. Actually, the song "Memory" is the only one in our memories. The rest seems to me quite average. We should have in mind that a few years later Webber wrote wonderful songs for each one of his musicals: PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, SUNSET BOULEVARD and the unfortunate WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND, besides his previous masterpiece, JESUSCHRIST SUPERSTAR, with almost an entire collection of classical and marvelous songs. I saw CATS in Broadway back in 1992 and I saw it again last year here in Chile: I guess some cats were left on the plane on their way down here because the southamerican tour production looked quite poor compared to the Broadway version. It was shown in a huge arena and in a frontal stage, quite different to the half-circled and smaller Winter Garden Stage.
Cats: Original Cast Recording (1981 Original London Cast) Poster
2005 Digitally Remastered Edition of One of the Best Loved Musicals of all Time and in the Lloyd Webber Canon.Since its debut in 1981, London's and the world's longest-running musical still fills seats in a dozen theaters worldwide. Uncountable recastings and reorchestrations later, Andrew Lloyd Webber's adaptation of T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats strives to please the ears of ever-new generations. This is the original cast recording, and it retains a freshness from the still-recent opening, its novelty untarnished by decades of success. Also, the abundance of "names"--both singers and musicians--makes this one of the high-class musical recordings of all time. Elaine Paige rose to stardom as Grizabella with the hit "Memory"; at the time, though, bigger names were Wayne Sleep, Paul Nicholas, and Brian Blessed. Sarah Brightman and Bonnie Langford are also on the cast list. Lloyd Webber himself plays keyboards and the impressive roster of session musicians includes Barbara Thompson and David Locke. Lloyd Webber, well versed in the practice of "auto-quotation," can always look back to this work for cat-chy material: the Overture, "Old Gumbie Cat," "Rum Tum Tugger," and "Mr.?Mistoffelees"--the list of good tunes and themes goes on and on. This remains a fun listening experience, even for those few who still haven't caught the show. It's also available in a highlights version. --Yngvil V.G.
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