Mr. Mistoffelees George de la Peña. In the 1998 DVD production of the show, Mistoffelees is portrayed by Jacob Brent, reprising his Broadway role. In the 2016 Broadway revival the part is played by Ricky Ubeda. When Neil Patrick Harris hosted "Saturday Night Live" in 2009, Bobby Moynihan played Mr. Mistoffelees in a "Save Broadway" sketch. Mr. Mistoffelees Mr. Mistoffelees is a character in T. S. Eliot's poetry book "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" and its stage adaptation, Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular musical "Cats". He is an important primary character, and one of the most popular of the show. He is
What Are They Doing in Heaven? both the verses and the refrain, the first three lines rhyme, and the fourth is "What are they doing now?" or some small variant of that. The author reflects on friends who were burdened in life by care, or by disease, or by poverty; and wonders what they might now be doing in Heaven, without giving his answer. The first known recording of the song is the 1928 one by Washington Phillips (18801954; vocals and zither), in gospel blues style. Phillips' recording was used in the soundtrack of the 2005 film "Elizabethtown". The song has since been recorded many times