CATS prowls back to Glasgow
On just one special night
of the year, all Jellicle cats meet at the Jellicle Ball where Old Deuteronomy,
their wise and benevolent leader, makes the Jellicle choice and announces which
of them will go up to The Heaviside Layer and be reborn into a whole new
Jellicle life.
Direct from its
sellout-season at the London Palladium and based on T. S. Eliot’s Old
Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,Andrew Lloyd Webber’s record-breaking
2015 Oliver award-nominated musical prowls its way back into Glasgow
King’s this September as the memory of the well-loved tale lives on in
the city.
Cats is one of the longest-running shows in the West End and on Broadway, receiving its world premiere at the New London
Theatre in 1981 where it played for 21 record-breaking years with 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 18 years.
Cats first returned to the
West End in December 2014 reuniting the original creative team - Director
Trevor Nunn, Associate Director and Choreographer Gillian Lynne, Designer John
Napier and Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Following a second season at the London
Palladium this Christmas the production will embark on a new tour into 2017.
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.
PERFORMANCES
King’s Theatre
Tues 13 Sep-Sat 17 Sep
Tues-Sat eves, 7.30pm
Wed, Thurs & Sat mats, 2.30pm
Box Office 0844 871 7648 (bkg fee) Calls cost up to7p
per minute, plus your phone company’s access charge.
www.atgtickets.com/glasgow (bkg fee)
