‘Cats’ slinks back to the West End for 12-week run
Published: 09 Jul. 2014, 20:31
The creator of hit musicals including “Evita” and “Jesus Christ Superstar” announced plans this week to revive “Cats,” his 1981 show based on poet T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” for a 12-week run beginning on Dec. 6.
“I think it’s just a great opportunity for us to get a second edition ... with this show I think it would be great just to have a go at it again and give it a bit of a rethink,” he said at a launch event held in a London theater on Monday.
Lloyd Webber said he would also consider bringing back some of his other hits, such as “Phantom of the Opera” and “Starlight Express,” and that movie versions were a possibility.
“Yes, I think it’s very possible that I might have a look at one or two of my shows,” Lloyd Webber said. “And of course, the other thing that’s happening is them being made into movies ... There is considerable talk at last about ‘Cats’ being made into a movie so it gives me a chance to think about the material and how that can happen.”
Lloyd Webber’s more recent musicals have not enjoyed the success of his earlier efforts. His most recent foray into the West End was “Stephen Ward” about the 1961 British politics-and-sex scandal known as the Profumo Affair, which arose from a sexual liaison between the then-secretary of war, John Profumo, and aspiring model Christine Keeler. The production opened in December 2013 but struggled at the box office and had a final performance at the end of March.
Reuters
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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