Cats (musical) carrying Grizabella and Old Deuteronomy partway toward the sky; he then steps off so she can finish the journey on her own. Finally, Old Deuteronomy gives his closing speech to the audience ("The Ad-dressing of Cats") and the show comes to a close. A 1981 recording of the Original London Cast was released first on LP and cassette tape and later as a two-CD set. It contains the following tracks: Composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the production of "Cats" is based on T. S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" (1939), which the composer recalled as having been a
The King of the Cats king of the cats from this story and Robert Irwin's "Father of Cats" from "The Arabian Nightmare" for his 1998 novel "King Rat". A 2006 biography of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. by Wil Haygood was entitled "King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.". American author P. T. Cooper's 2012 middle-grade children's novel, "The King of the Cats", starts off with a retelling of the original legend but then picks up where the legend left off. The novel tells of the death of Tom Tildrum and the crowning of his successor, Jack Tigerstripes, who is