Cats: Original Cast Recording (1981 Original London Cast)
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Composer: Andrew Lloyd WebberOrchestra: Cats Pit Orchestra
Performer: Brian Blessed
Performer: Paul Nicholas
Performer: Ken Wells
Performer: Sarah Brightman
Performer: Peter Barry
Performer: Elaine Paige
Performer: Myra Sands
Performer: Anita Pashley
Performer: Bonnie Langford
Performer: Roland Alexander
Performer: David Baxter
Performer: John Chester
Performer: Julie Edmett
Performer: Geraldine Gardner
Performer: Finola Hughes
Performer: Seela Indrani
Performer: Sharon Lee-Hill
Performer: Jeff Shankley
Edition: Music CD
Format: 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: CATS, 1981 production
Hit: 5 Stars
This 2 disc cd of the original cast in London is a very enjoyable program. I, however, would have wished there had been a listing in the booklet program that would have named the songs each of the actors/actresses performed. I knew before I purchaced this cd set that Sarah Brightman sung a song in it. I believe it is her that sings Memory toward the end of the second cd. Highly recommended.
Cats: Original Cast Recording (1981 Original London Cast) Poster
Original London Cast Recording. Universal. 1999.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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