CATS – Complete Original Broadway Cast Recording (Deluxe Edition, Digitally Remastered 2CD)

UPC: 602498746219 

MPN: 9874621 

Brand Name: Universal Music Group

Overview

This deluxe edition of CATS – The Complete Original Broadway Cast Recording has been digitally remastered at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London. Capturing the timeless music of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s record-breaking musical, this 2-CD set presents the full Broadway score as first performed in New York in 1982.

Product Features

• Format: 2-CD Set, Audio CD
• Edition: Digitally Remastered, Deluxe Edition
• Length: Full Broadway performance, approx. 130 minutes
• Packaging: Jewel case with booklet designed by Dewynters
• Release Year: Originally recorded 1982, remastered 2005
• Label: Really Useful Records / Polydor / Universal Music Group

Interesting Facts

• CATS, based on T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, opened on Broadway in 1982 and became one of the longest-running musicals in history.
• Produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Martin Levan, the recording features the legendary original Broadway cast.
• Digitally remastered at Abbey Road Studios, this edition enhances the orchestration and iconic songs like Memory, Mr. Mistoffelees, and Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats.
• The iconic CATS logo, created in 1981 by RUG Ltd., has become one of the most recognizable images in musical theatre history.

Track Listing

Disc 1 – Act One

1. Overture
2. Prologue: Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
3. The Naming of Cats
4. The Invitation to the Jellicle Ball
5. The Old Gumbie Cat
6. The Rum Tum Tugger
7. Grizabella: The Glamour Cat
8. Bustopher Jones
9. Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer
10. Old Deuteronomy
11. The Jellicle Ball
12. Grizabella: The Glamour Cat (Reprise)

Disc 2 – Act Two

1. The Moments of Happiness
2. Gus: The Theatre Cat
3. Growltiger’s Last Stand
4. Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat
5. Macavity: The Mystery Cat
6. Mr. Mistoffelees
7. Memory
8. The Journey to the Heaviside Layer
9. The Ad-dressing of Cats

Publishers

Produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Martin Levan. ℗ 1983 The Really Useful Group Ltd. © 2005 The Really Useful Group Ltd. Licensed to Polydor Ltd. (UK), Universal Music Company. Distributed by Universal Music Group, LC00309.

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