Selections From Cats (1982 Original Broadway Cast)
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1993-12-07
Music Label: Decca Broadway
Soundtracks:
- Prologue: Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
- Solo Dance
- The Old Gumbie Cat
- The Rum Tum Tugger
- Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer
- Old Deuteronomy
- The Jellicle Ball
- Grizabella
- Gus: The Theatre Cat
- Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat
- Macavity: The Mystery Cat
- Mr. Mistoffelees
- Memory - Eliot, T.S.
- The Journey to the Heaviside Layer
- The Ad-Dressing of Cats
Music reviews of Selections From Cats (1982 Original Broadway Cast)
Music Review: I would have preferred the longer one
Rating: 3 Stars
I am no Cats fanatic, and I thought that buying the "Selections" CD at a lower price would satisfy me. However, I've watched the Cats movie too many times to count (I have a 4-year old who's obsessed), and was disappointed with the "Selections" CD. It's missing the Grizabella song (although it has a track titled "Grizabella", that's not really it) and other small pieces that I wish were included. The singing is not that great, save for Betty Buckley who sings Grizabella. She does a great job; however they tinkered with the music for "Memory" so it sounds like a really bad hit from the '80s.
If you want a cheaper CD to share songs with your 4-year old, then this one is great. If you really enjoy the music to Cats, then maybe the other CDs are better. (I haven't listened to them, so I don't know for sure.)
Description of Selections From Cats (1982 Original Broadway Cast)
Andrew Lloyd Webber's adaptation of T.S. Eliot's poems may not have become Broadway's longest-running musical without the original cast to begin the raves. Which is why every aficionado of this theatrical classic will tell you that this is the one you have to own (although they'll probably tell you that you need the import original London cast album as well, the show having originated on London's West End and all). But this is the one with Betty Buckley singing "Memory"--the song that turned her into a star. While the complete two-disc set is an appropriate length for the musical that helped set off Broadway's "operatic" phase, this 57-minute highlights CD includes most of the familiar numbers, omitting the overture, "The Naming of Cats," "Bustopher Jones," "The Moments of Happiness," and the mini-epic "Growltiger's Last Stand." The show is now also available--in its entirety--as a home video, but the music still stands on its own, though some cynics have wondered why so much music only produced one hit standard. --Bill HoldshipClassic Vocalists CDs
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