VIDEO: Tony Sheldon, Max Von Essen & More Star in RepubliCATS Mashup!

In a hilarious new YouTube video titled 'RepubliCATS', in an effort to help the voters decide the primary, The Iowan Republican Committee hires Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber to stage live entertainment starring the Republican candidates.

Watch the video, which features Tony nominee Tony Sheldon (PRISCILLA) as Sir Lloyd Webber, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS' Max von Essen as Rand Paul, and composer Andrew Lippa (THE ADDAMS FAMILY, BIG FISH) as Lindsay Graham and PHANTOM OF THE OPERA's Howard McGillin as Abraham Lincoln.

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.

Based on T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, the original creative team - Director Trevor Nunn, Associate Director and Choreographer Gillian Lynne, Designer John Napier and ComposerAndrew Lloyd Webber - recently reunited to bring Cats back to the West End.

Source: YouTube