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CATS Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber Swims With His Cat, Fez
By: Michael Dale Aug. 18, 2015
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You can't say Andrew Lloyd Webber doesn't have a reason to love Cats, both onstage and off.
While a revival of his smash hit based on T.S. Eliot's collection of feline poems enjoys new success at Blackpool, Sir Andrew takes a holiday swim with his Turkish Van named Fez.
Check out this video on the Cats Facebook page.
Now if he can only teach him to sing "Memory."
Even on holiday Andrew Lloyd Webber is putting the Cats through their paces. Here he teaches his Turkish Van Swimming Cat, Fez a few new strokes. Cats is currently playing beside the seaside in Blackpool. www.catsthemusical.com/blackpool
Posted by Cats the Musical on Thursday, August 6, 2015
Cats, one of the longest-running shows in West End and on Broadway, received its world premiere at the New London Theatre in 1981 where it played for 21 record-breaking years and almost 9,000 performances. The production was the winner of the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Musical. In 1983 the Broadway production became the recipient of seven Tony awards including Best Musical, and ran for eighteen years. Since its world premiere, Cats has been presented in over 30 countries, has been translated into 10 languages and has been seen by over 50 million people world-wide. Both the original London and Broadway cast recordings won Grammy Awards for Best Cast Album. The classic Lloyd Webber score includes Memory which has been recorded by over 150 artists from Barbra Streisand and Johnny Mathis to Liberace and Barry Manilow.
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