Cats musical by Lloyd Webber Actions Share Share Share to social media Facebook X URL https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cats Share Share Share to social media Facebook X URL https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cats Written by Karen Sottosanti Karen Sottosanti is a writer and editor who works in educational publishing. Karen Sottosanti Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Last Updated: Aug 22, 2024 • Article History Table of Contents Cats, award-winning stage musical by the English composer and theatrical producer Andrew Lloyd Webber, adapted from Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939), a book of poems for children by the Nobel Prize-winning American-English poet and playwright T.S. Eliot. An enormously popular, flashy spectacle of a show, Cats premiered in London’s West End on May 11, 1981, at the New London Theatre (now the Gillian Lynne Theatre) and began its Broadway run on October 7, 1982, at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City. The musical was performed nearly 9,000 times over 21 years in the West End and ...(100 of 596 words)

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