Cats (musical) Cats (musical) Cats is a sung-through musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" by T. S. Eliot. The musical tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make what is known as "the Jellicle choice" and decide which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life. Directed by Trevor Nunn and choreographed by Gillian Lynne, "Cats" first opened in the West End in 1981 and then with the same creative team on Broadway in 1982. It won numerous awards, including
The King of the Cats first King is called "Tim". The videogame "" features a secondary character named King Tom Tildrum XIV, who is an antropomorphic cat. He has a soulmate in the human world in the form of a normal cat named Timmy Toldrum. The game's sequel "", stars a descendant of King Tom Tildrum, named Evan Pettiwhisker Tildrum. The King of the Cats The King of the Cats (or The King o' the Cats) is a folk tale from the British Isles. The earliest known example is found in "Beware the Cat", written by William Baldwin in 1553, though it is related to