Cats, feline five dates legend – Le Figaro

Until January 10, the Mogador Theatre in Paris hosts the legendary musical. The opportunity to return to the key moments of this success translated into more than 15 languages.

The most spectacular cats in the world return to Paris after 20 years of absence. The Mogador theater will host 90 performances of Cats , this musical which is among the classics of Broadway. New size, the lyrics are in French, including the song Memory , popularized in 1981 by singer Barbra Streisand. . A bad idea that criticism of Le Figaro

The story is yet sublime under the full moon, in a huge city dump, cats congregate. As every year, the Jellicle cats produce a magical show until the big boss decides which will go to heaven to rise from the ashes … The musical, which has become a phenomenon over time, was marked by five Key dates.

● 1981

This year, Andrew Lloyd Webber decided to set to music a collection of poems for popular child in England and signed TS Eliot: Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats . This is the beginning of a long success recognized by no less than seven Tony Awards (the equivalent of the Molières in France), translated into more than 15 languages ​​worldwide. This is also the year when Barbra Streisand interpreter Memory , one of the titles of the musical before being imitated by the greatest voices of the world. The song is a hit.

● 1982

First performed in the famous district of New York. Cats starts at Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre. Some twelve years later, the musical performances Account 6138, a record that will make comedy Cats, a classic. It will remain on view another eight years.

● 1998

shot Adelphi Theatre in London, the show recorded a movie is sold DVD and VHS. Lloyd Webber himself, supervised the orchestration and called Gillian Lynne, the choreographer Cats , to make him personally choose the dancers. The team wanted the audience to feel they live from the room, therefore, she filmed the musical different angles. The film has since been broadcast on TV, including PBS, the BBC, and Ovation TV.

● 2005

Known Japanese to be also cat lovers do not escape this wave: Japanese Shiki Theatre Company made even build a theater especially for Cats. The musical has been performed until the month of August this year.

● 2015

Cats back on stage at the theater Mogador and will stay in the French capital until January 10. A troop of twenty-two leaping cats offers a show full of imagination and wonder. Will you have the urge to applaud them?