The Naming of Cats can discover—but THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. In "Cats", "The Naming of Cats" is the second song of the musical. The Naming of Cats is a slow, eerie song which breaks the fourth wall, acknowledging the audience and explaining to them how cats are given their names, all through unison, quietly whispering, but also fiercely hissing, in rhythmic dialogue from the full company. In the 1976 movie "Logan's Run" actor Peter Ustinov recites a shortened version of the poem. The Naming of Cats "The Naming of Cats" is a poem in T. S. Eliot's poetry book "Old
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats the poems is Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Cats", which was premiered in the West End of London in 1981 and on Broadway in 1982. It became the longest-running Broadway show in history until it was overtaken by another musical by Lloyd Webber, "The Phantom of the Opera", and then by "Chicago". As well as the characters found in the book, "Cats" introduces several additional characters from Eliot's unpublished drafts, most notably Grizabella. A film adaptation of "Cats" is due for release on December 20, 2019. In the film "Logan's Run" Logan and Jessica meet an old man in the ruins