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CATS Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on Old Possum’s Book Of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot | “Prologue – Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats” additional material written by Trevor Nunn and Richard Stilgoe | “Memory” additional material written by Trevor Nunn 

Episode Segments:

  • 1:53 – Speed Test
  • 7:00 – Why God Why
  • 11:25 – Back to Before
  • 17:34 – Putting It Together
  • 31:08 – What's Inside
  • 1:00:47 – How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?
  • 1:14:01 – We Go Together
  • 1:16:38 – Our Favorite Things
  • 1:24:31 – Corner of the Sky
  • 1:28:04 – What Comes Next?

Works Consulted & Reference :

  • Cats (Original Libretto) by Andrew Lloyd Webber & T.S. Eliot with Additional Material by Trevor Nunn & Richard Stilgoe
  • Unmasked by Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • A Cat’s Diary: How the Broadway Production of Cats Was Born by Stephen Mo Hannan
  • Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot

Music Credits:

  • "Overture" from Dear World (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Jerry Herman | Performed by Dear World Orchestra & Donald Pippin
  • "The Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie  (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by Jeanine Tesori, Lyrics by Dick Scanlan | Performed by Marc Kudisch, Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan & Ensemble
  • "Why God Why" from Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live Recording  (Original Cast Recording  / Deluxe)  | Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyrics by Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby Jr.  | Performed by Alistair Brammer
  • "Back to Before" from Ragtime: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens | Performed by Marin Mazzie
  • "Chromolume #7 / Putting It Together" from Sunday in the Park with George (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Performed by Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Judith Moore, Cris Groenendaal, Charles Kimbrough, William Parry, Nancy Opel, Robert Westenberg, Dana Ivey, Kurt Knudson, Barbara Bryne
  • "What's Inside" from Waitress (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Sara Bareilles | Performed by Jessie Mueller & Ensemble
  • "Memory” from Cats (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Lyrics by Trevor Nunn | Performed by Betty Buckley & Cynthia Onrubia
  • "Maria" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording)  | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Evadne Baker, Anna Lee, Portia Nelson, Marni Nixon
  • “We Go Together” from Grease (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Music & Lyrics by Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey | Performed by John Travolta, Olivia Newton John & Cast
  • "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording) | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Julie Andrews
  • "Corner of the Sky" from Pippin (New Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz | Performed by Matthew James Thomas
  • “What Comes Next?” from Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Performed by Jonathan Groff
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