PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It's based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, by T. S. Eliot, and produced by Cameron Mackintosh.
The musical "Cats" tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and at night they make what is known as "the Jellicle choice" and decide which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life.
Cats introduced the song standard Memory which was the first performance of Cats in 1981.
AWARDS
- Awards 1981 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical
1983 Tony Award for Best Musical
COSTUMES
- Body: full body soft stretchy jumpsuit
- Arms: Ruffles/fur armbands half way up the arm
- Legs: fur slips that go up to your knees
- fabric paints: paint on stripes, patches and other cat like colors and marks to achieve the Jellicle look.
- Tail: painty hose filled with newspaper then added patches of fur