Cats Original Broadway Cast Recording

Most of the original creative team remained with martin levan replacing jacob as the sound designer and stanley lebowsky replacing rabinowitz as music director.

Cats original broadway cast recording. The original broadway cast of cats performing jellical songs for jellical cats and memory. The longest running musical of its time cats is at times overrated but as a whole it retains the charm that attracted audiences. Between the london and broadway recordings of cats i tend to favour the broadway cast version more. Highlights denotes a recording that is only available as a selection of songs designed to fit on a single record cassette cd.

A list of all of the official cast recordings of cats. A two record disc cassette complete set and a one record disc cassette. The original broadway cast of cats including the understudies recorded the album in october 1982. Geffen 2031 is a two disc complete version of the show and there is an abridged one.

I know many cats fans who were raised on elaine paige and the original london cast may be up in arms about this but objectively there is perhaps more fun in this new york version of the musical. Cats dvd cover directed bydavid mallet produced byandrew lloyd webber based oncats by andrew lloyd webber old possum s book of practical cats by t s. Cats debuted on broadway on 7 october 1982 at the winter garden theatre with a record breaking 6 2 million in ticket pre sales. I don t intend any yankcentrism but there is an irrepressible energy in this version that isn t.

Cats original broadway cast recording andrew lloyd webber cats 1983 broadway cast musicals 1983 preview song time the overture. There are also numerous studio recordings made of the music by non cast studio singers which are. A live recording is one that was recorded of one or more live performance rather than in a recording studio. Eliot starring elaine paige john mills ken page music byandrew lloyd webber cinematographynic knowland edited bydavid gardener production company really useful films distributed bypolygram video universal pictures release date 5 october 1998 running time 115 minutes languageenglish cats is a 1998 direct to video musical film based on.

Original cast recording 1981 original london cast 2 contributors this was the first ever cast recording of cats and consisted of the original 1981 london cast that included brian. The recording was released on january 26 1983 in two versions. Lloyd webber flew in from london to oversee the recording which was estimated to cost as much as 400 000.