YASMINA BEAN & BRAD PITT: CATS IN BROADWAY

Yasmina Bean & Brad Pitt in Broadway

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.

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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).

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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 End musical. 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.

Memory, Cats