The potential to feel empathy for an unusual band of felines, the differences between live performance and digital effects, the question of whether to sell a movie to either adults or children... and the quandary of whether or not that movie should exist at all. These and other discussions on today’s episode about Andrew Lloyd Webber and T. S. Eliot’s ‘Cats’.

(All the lyrics and instrumentals for the songs featured in this episode are the copyrighted property of their respective artists, Andrew Lloyd Webber, the T. S. Eliot estate or otherwise. I do not own the rights to any of these songs and am merely using them for the purpose of this discussion.)

Now available on all podcast apps: The Hardcover Edition, featuring the Appendices. Stay until the end of the episode to learn more about the material, its cinematic history, and my personal connection to it.