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Cats (Highlights from the 1981 Original London Cast)

Cats (Highlights from the 1981 Original London Cast)

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Artists: Andrew Lloyd Webber, T. S. Eliot, Richard Stilgoe, Elaine Paige
Label: Polydor Import
Category: Music

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars 4 reviews
Sales Rank: 190534

Format: Cast Recording
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

UPC: 042283941526
EAN: 0042283941526
ASIN: B000006XI1

Release Date: October 12, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Tracks:

  • Prologue/Jellicle Song for Jellicle Cats
  • Solo Dance
  • The Old Gumbie Cat
  • The Rum Tum Tugger
  • Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer
  • Old Deuteronomy
  • The Jellicle Ball
  • Grizabella: The Glamour Cat
  • Gus: The Theatre Cat
  • Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat
  • Macavity: The Mystery Cat
  • Mr. Mistoffelees
  • Memory
  • The Journey to the Heaviside Layer
  • The Ad-Dressing of the Cats

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  • Highlights From The Phantom Of The Opera: The Original London Cast Recording (1986 London Cast)
  • Cats - The Musical (Commemorative Edition)
  • My Fair Lady (1956 Original Broadway Cast)
  • South Pacific (1958 Film Soundtrack)

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Album Details
Single Disc Collection of the Best Songs from the Original London Cast of the Hit Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical Based on the Book "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" by T.s. Eliot.


Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Better than the broadway version   January 20, 2001
Christina Bueti (Hudson Valley New York State)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

This London version of CATS "blows away" the broadway version. Anyone who has listened to both will surely agree!! If you think the broadway one is better, then you don't "know" music or musical talent when you hear it. There is so much passion in the London cast. They are not "going through the motions". A must have for fans of musicals and the theater.


4 out of 5 stars Okay - good for the London Cast hankerers   March 26, 2000
Yi-Peng (Singapore)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful

I am happy to see an abridged version of the Original London Cast recording of CATS available in the market, especially to the US market. I don't really consider this to be the finest cast recording, but I am willing to let the beginning purchaser and those who own the Broadway soundtrack try this out. I am a little bit more enthusiastic about the abridged London soundtrack because you needn't tire your ears and feel unhappy from listening to too much of its underpowerdness. Of course, we have Elaine Paige and Brian Blessed singing very well as Grizabella and Old Deuteronomy, and we have complete versions of "Gumbie Cat" and "Ad-Dressing." However, I would advise you to be aware of Paul Nicholas and Wayne Sleep, who sing with no feeling for the music. Overall, I would recommend this a little bit more than the 2-CD set, and for the general collector, the Broadway soundtrack, be it in complete and abridged versions, would be the first choice.


5 out of 5 stars Cats   January 7, 2000
kathleen kille (New Jersey)
0 out of 11 found this review helpful

I like it but I have not reseved it yet and maybe i can get it in time for my brithday on the 24 of january. my daughter has a lot on her mind so if you cold send it to her it wold make her the happiest gril i know.


5 out of 5 stars Fantastic! The best iv'e heard!   May 21, 1999
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

You should get this beautiful recording!It's the best!I might not have the Hightlights cd but I do have the compleate recording!Of course Ms. Paige gives a better interpretation of Grizabella.And Mr. Blessed is Old Dueteronemy!This is the''Dream Cast''!This recording also features the missing ''Billy McCaw''!And the original music to ''Mongojerrie and Rumpulteazer''.It also includes the original ''Addressing of Cats''!In all this is a must buy!But don't take my word for it buy it yourself and you'll see that this import is the best of the best!

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