Today, The Grandma has visited an oldfriend, Barbra Streisand,who lives in NewYork City.
Together, they have enjoyed a great musical in Broadway, Cats, by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats written by T. S. Eliot.
Cats is a sung-through musical composedby Andrew LloydWebber, based on the1939poetry collection Old Possum's Bookof Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot.
It tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make the Jellicle choice by deciding which cat will ascend to the Heaviside layer and come back to a new life.
As of 2022, Cats remains the fourth-longest-running Broadway show and the sixth-longest-running West End show.
Lloyd Webber
began setting Eliot's poems to music in 1977, and the compositions were
first presented as a song cycle in 1980. Producer Cameron Mackintosh
then recruited director Trevor Nunn and choreographer Gillian Lynne to
turn the songs into a complete musical. Cats opened to
positive reviews at the New London Theatre in the West End in 1981 and
then to mixed reviews at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway in 1982.
It won numerous awards including Best Musical at both the Laurence Olivier and Tony Awards.
Despite
its unusual premise that deterred investors initially, the musical
turned out to be an unprecedented commercial success, with a worldwide
gross of US$3.5 billion by 2012.
The London production ran for 21
years and 8,949 performances, while the Broadway production ran for 18
years and 7,485 performances, making Cats the longest-running musical in both theatre districts for a number of years.
Cats has since been revived in the West End twice and on Broadway once. It has also been translated into multiple languages and performed around the world many times.
Cats started the megamusical phenomenon, establishing a global market for musical theatre
and directing the industry's focus to big-budget blockbusters, as well
as family- and tourist-friendly shows. The musical's profound but
polarising influence also reshaped the aesthetic, technology, and
marketing of the medium.
Cats was adapted into a direct-to-video film in 1998, and a feature film directed by Tom Hooper in 2019.
Memory is a show tune composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Trevor Nunn based on poems by T. S. Eliot.
It was written for the 1981 musical Cats,
where it is sung primarily by the character Grizabella as a melancholic
remembrance of her glamorous past and as a plea for acceptance.
Memory is the climax of the musical
and by far its best-known song, having achieved mainstream success
outside of the musical. According to musicologist Jessica Sternfeld,
writing in 2006, it is by some estimations the most successful song ever from a musical.
Memory was named the Best Song Musically and Lyrically at the 1982 Ivor Novello Awards.
Memory, all alone in the moonlight I can dream of the old days Life was beautiful then I remember the time I knew what happiness was Let the memory live again.
Today, The Grandma has visited an old friend, Barbra Streisand,who is celebrating her 80th anniversary in New York City.
Together, they have enjoyed a great musical in Broadway, Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats written by T. S. Eliot.
Cats is a sung-through musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot.
It tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make the Jellicle choice by deciding which cat will ascend to the Heaviside layer and come back to a new life.
As of 2022, Cats remains the fourth-longest-running Broadway show and the sixth-longest-running West End show.
Lloyd Webber began setting Eliot's poems to music in 1977, and the compositions were first presented as a song cycle in 1980. Producer Cameron Mackintosh then recruited director Trevor Nunn and choreographer Gillian Lynne to turn the songs into a complete musical. Cats opened to positive reviews at the New London Theatre in the West End in 1981 and then to mixed reviews at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway in 1982.
It won numerous awards including Best Musical at both the Laurence Olivier and Tony Awards.
Despite its unusual premise that deterred investors initially, the musical turned out to be an unprecedented commercial success, with a worldwide gross of US$3.5 billion by 2012.
The London production ran for 21 years and 8,949 performances, while the Broadway production ran for 18 years and 7,485 performances, making Cats the longest-running musical in both theatre districts for a number of years.
Cats has since been revived in the West End twice and on Broadway once. It has also been translated into multiple languages and performed around the world many times.
Cats started the megamusical phenomenon, establishing a global market for musical theatre and directing the industry's focus to big-budget blockbusters, as well as family- and tourist-friendly shows. The musical's profound but polarising influence also reshaped the aesthetic, technology, and marketing of the medium.
Cats was adapted into a direct-to-video film in 1998, and a feature film directed by Tom Hooper in 2019.
Memory is a show tune composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Trevor Nunn based on poems by T. S. Eliot.
It was written for the 1981 musical Cats, where it is sung primarily by the character Grizabella as a melancholic remembrance of her glamorous past and as a plea for acceptance.
Memory is the climax of the musical and by far its best-known song, having achieved mainstream success outside of the musical. According to musicologist Jessica Sternfeld, writing in 2006, it is by some estimations the most successful song ever from a musical.
Memory was named the Best Song Musically and Lyrically at the 1982 Ivor Novello Awards.
Memory, all alone in the moonlight I can dream of the old days Life was beautiful then I remember the time I knew what happiness was Let the memory live again.
Today, The Grandma is relaxing at home. She has decided to practice one of her favourite hobbies, reading poetry. She has chosen T. S. Eliot, the American-English poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor, who was born on a day like today in 1888.
Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888-4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. One of the 20th century's major poets, he is a centralfigure inEnglish-languageModernistpoetry.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a prominent Boston Brahmin family, he moved to England in 1914 at the age of 25 and went on to settle, work, and marry there. He became a British citizen in 1927 at the age of 39, subsequently renouncing his American citizenship.
Eliot first attracted widespread attention for his poem The Love Song of J. AlfredPrufrock in 1915, which was received as a modernist masterpiece. It was followed by some best-known poems in the English language, including TheWaste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), and FourQuartets (1943).
He was also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949). He was awarded the Nobel Prize inLiterature in 1948, for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry.
The Eliots were a Boston Brahmin family, with roots in England and New England. Eliot's paternal grandfather, William Greenleaf Eliot, had moved to St. Louis, Missouri, to establish a Unitarian Christian church there. His father, Henry Ware Eliot (1843–1919), was a successful businessman, president and treasurer of the Hydraulic-Press Brick Company in St Louis. His mother, Charlotte Champe Stearns (1843–1929), who wrote poetry, was a social worker, which was a new profession in the U.S. in the early 20th century. Eliot was the last of six surviving children. Known to family and friends as Tom, he was the namesake of his maternal grandfather, Thomas Stearns.
Eliot's childhood infatuation with literature can be ascribed to several factors. First, he had to overcome physical limitations as a child. Struggling from a congenital double inguinal hernia, he could not participate in many physical activities and thus was prevented from socializing with his peers. As he was often isolated, his love for literature developed. Once he learned to read, the young boy immediately became obsessed with books, favouring tales of savage life, the Wild West, or Mark Twain's thrill-seeking Tom Sawyer.
From 1898 to 1905, Eliot attended Smith Academy, the boys' college preparatory division of Washington University, where his studies included Latin, Ancient Greek, French, and German.
He began to write poetry when he was 14 under the influence of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. He said the results were gloomy and despairing, and he destroyed them.
His first published poem, A Fable
For Feasters, was written as a school exercise and was published in the
Smith Academy Record in February 1905. Also published there in April
1905 was his oldest surviving poem in manuscript, an untitled lyric,
later revised and reprinted as Song in The Harvard Advocate, Harvard
University's student magazine.
He also published three short stories in 1905, Birds of Prey, A Tale of a Whale and The Man Who Was King. The last mentioned story significantly reflects his exploration of the Igorot Village while visiting the 1904 World's Fair of St. Louis. Such a link with indigenous peoples importantly antedates his anthropological studies at Harvard. After working as a philosophy assistant at Harvard from 1909 to 1910, Eliot moved to Paris where, from 1910 to 1911, he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne.
In 1915, he taught English at Birkbeck, University of London.
In 1916, he completed a doctoral dissertation for Harvard on Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F. H. Bradley, but he failed to return for the viva voce exam.
Eliot worked as a schoolteacher, most notably at Highgate School in London, where he taught French and Latin: his students included John Betjeman.
Charles Whibley recommended T.S. Eliot to Geoffrey Faber. In 1925 Eliot left Lloyds to become a director in the publishing firm Faber and Gwyer, later Faber and Faber, where he remained for the rest of his career. At Faber and Faber, he was responsible for publishing distinguished English poets, including W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Charles Madge and Ted Hughes.
Eliot died of emphysema at his home in Kensington in London, on 4 January 1965, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium. In accordance with his wishes, his ashes were taken to St Michael and All Angels' Church, East Coker, the village in Somerset from which his Eliot ancestors had emigrated to America.
Eliot was commemorated by the placement of a large stone in the floor of Poets' Corner in London's Westminster Abbey. The stone, cut by designer Reynolds Stone, is inscribed with his life dates, his Order of Merit, and a quotation from his poem Little Gidding, the communication / of the dead is tongued with fire beyond / the language of the living.
For a poet of his stature, Eliot produced a relatively small number of poems. He was aware of this even early in his career.
Eliot also made significant contributions to the field of literary criticism, and strongly influenced the school of New Criticism. He was somewhat self-deprecating and minimizing of his work, and once said his criticism was merely a by-product of his private poetry-workshop.
T.S. Eliot influenced many poets, novelists, and songwriters, including Seán Ó Ríordáin, Máirtín Ó Díreáin, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, Bob Dylan, Hart Crane, William Gaddis, Allen Tate, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Trevor Nunn, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, Seamus Heaney, Russell Kirk, George Seferis, who in 1936 published a modern Greek translation of The Waste Land, and James Joyce.
T. S. Eliot was a strong influence on 20th-century Caribbean poetry written in English, including the epic Omeros (1990) by Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, and Islands (1969) by Barbadian Kamau Brathwaite.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
Yasmina Bean is a happy woman today. She's going to Broadway to watch Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats with her family but this is not the best of the day. She has a premium seat in the theatre because she has been invited by Brad Pitt, an old Grandma's friend who met some years ago in Las Vegas when she was a part of the Ocean's group. The Grandma knew that Yasmine was very interested in meeting Brad and she has phoned him to ask for an appointment in the theatre with the young Bean.
Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, and produced by Cameron Mackintosh. The musical tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make what is known as the Jellicle choice and decide which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life. Cats introduced the song standard Memory. The first performance of Cats was in 1981.
Yasmine Bean inside the theatre
Directed by Trevor Nunn and choreographed by Gillian Lynne, Cats first opened in the West End in 1981 and then with the same creative team on Broadway in 1982. It won numerous awards, including Best Musical at both the Laurence Olivier Awards and the Tony Awards.
The London production ran for 21 years and the Broadway production ran for 18 years, both setting new records. Actresses Elaine Paige and Betty Buckley became particularly associated with the musical. One actress, Marlene Danielle, performed in the Broadway production for its entire run (from 1982 until 2000).
As of 2016, Cats is the fourth-longest-running show in Broadway history, and was the longest running Broadway show in history from 1997 until 2006 when it was surpassed by The Phantom of the Opera. Cats is the sixth-longest-running West Endmusical. It has been performed around the world many times and has been translated into more than 20 languages. In 1998, Cats was turned into a made-for-television film.
Memory. All alone in the moonlight I can smile happy your days (I can dream of the old days),
life was beautiful then I remember the time I knew what happiness was. Let the memory live again.
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