FREE to watch: Cats The Musical

Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS Musical streaming available this Friday 15th May - For 24 hours in the UK and 48 hours in all other countries!

Screening date/time:
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Philippines : May 16 (Saturday 2am) until May 18 (Monday / 2am)
Australia    : May 16 (Saturday 4am) until May 18 (Monday / 4am)
US EST      : May 15 (Friday 2pm) until May 17 (Sunday / 2pm)
Available for 24 hours in UK and 48 hours in all other countries.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS, the most famous musical of all time, first exploded onto the West End stage in 1981. 'Memory', one of its many classic songs, became an instant worldwide hit. Since then CATS has smashed records and conquered the world. Using the latest technology, all the excitement, thrill, romance and intimacy of this theatrical legend has been captured on screen. Breathtaking visuals and full digital sound (that has been completely re-recorded with a seventy piece orchestra) will leave you deep into the mysterious world of CATS as you've never seen it before -- more intoxicating and magical than you could possibly imagine. With a star cast including Elaine Paige and Sir John Mills.

The show is being made available for streaming online as part of Lloyd Webber’s initiative “The Shows Must Go On!” in light of theaters being forced to close amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The composer’s effort involves releasing some of his musicals in its entirety on YouTube for set hours.

Cats is a sung-through musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. It tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make the "Jellicle choice," deciding which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life. The musical includes the well-known song "Memory" as sung by Grizabella. As of 2019, Cats remains the fourth-longest-running Broadway show and the sixth-longest-running West End show.

Lloyd Webber began setting Eliot's poems to music in 1977 and the compositions were first presented as a song cycle in 1980. Producer Cameron Mackintosh then recruited director Trevor Nunn and choreographer Gillian Lynne to turn the songs into a complete musical. Cats opened to positive reviews at the New London Theatre in the West End in 1981 and then to mixed reviews at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway in 1982. It won numerous awards including Best Musical at both the Laurence Olivier and Tony Awards. Despite its unusual premise that deterred investors initially, the musical turned out to be an unprecedented commercial success, with a worldwide gross of US$3.5 billion by 2012

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