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american musical
american musical 2004 Remarkable English poet T . S . Eliot hardly could imagine that his poems for children Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats ' will be known to millions of inhabitants of different continents as a basis of fantastic by its beauty classical musical Cats (music of well-known composer A . L . Webber Several interesting facts Musical Cats ' was so successful , that broke all records of theatrical longevity in Broadway and London . For the first time Cats ' were presented to spectators in New London Theater in West-End (May 11 , 1981
and already 8 years later they held the first record : musical became the most long-playing ' performance in the history of British Theater Musical is staged in London with unchangeable success after more then 8000 performances
In the long history of Broadway Cats ' - the only musical which was put on stage with unchangeable success for 18 years . From October 7 1982 this enchanting sight was presented for 7485 times . History of musical strikes with figures : musical was staged for more then 48 million people in 26 countries and 300 cities and profit from musical reached almost 2 milliards dollars . Show was presented at 10 languages , but always by its original name . It is interesting that questioning which made Mexican producers before start of the musical , stated that for spectators of any country word Cats ' doesn 't need translation . Musical Cats received the most prestigious theatrical awards : Oliver , Evening Standard , 7 Tony awards , Drama Desk , 7 national awards of Japan , 7 awards of Canada , etc
Why is musical Cats ' so attractive for millions of people with different tastes and predilections ? What makes spectators , who saw the musical once , to see it again and over again ? What is Cats
A bit of history
Actually , text and music plays great role in triumphal success of musical . In 1931 future Nobel Prize laureate T . S . Eliot started to write fairy-tale poems about cats for his small godsons . Old Possum , as he was called by his friends , managed to invent unusual names for cats and dogs of his friends . The book was published in 1939 and from those times it remains a favourite book for children and grown-ups , being re-edited in different languages and different countries
The idea to compose music for those poems came to composer Webber already in 1977 . Webber liked those wonderful stories about cats written in amazingly musical words , from his childhood , and composed several musical compositions for his friends . Some of them were presented with success during musical festival in Sidmonton , where Valerie Eliot got acquainted with Webber . She had shown to him unpublished poems from the book , particularly , poem about Grizabelle which stroke Webber by dramatic image (Elliot didn 't include it into his book , because he considered it too sad for small children . In such a way idea to create a big musical-theatrical composition about fantastic world of cats , which relations remind human world of passions and contradictions , appeared
Phenomena of Cats ' consists of many components , main of which...
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