‘Cats’ outlives them all
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats” has become the longestrunning musical ever in London’s West End, reports Tony Verdon. In May, the show ran up 3358 performances, overtaking Lloyd Webber’s “Jesus Christ, Superstar.” Only one cast member had stuck with the show from its West End opening — 29-year-old Stephen Wain, who played a kitten on the show’s opening night, May 11, 1981. He has now grown up to be Macavity — “There never was a cat of such deceitfulness and suavity.” The show is based on T. S. Elliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.” Wain told the “Independent” newspaper he is allergic to cats.
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