Old Possum's Book of Practical CATS
Cats Movie Tie-in
T. S. Eliot
- Cats!
- Some
- are
- sane,
- some
- are
- mad
- and
- some
- are
- good
- and
- some
- are
- bad.
Meet
- magical
- Mr
- Mistoffelees,
- sleepy
- Old
- Deuteronomy
- and
- curious
- Rum
- Tum
- Tugger.
- But
- you'll
- be
- lucky
- to
- meet
- Macavity
- because
- Macavity's
- not
- there!
In
- 1925
- T.S.
- Eliot
- became
- co-director
- of
- Faber
- &
- Faber,
- who
- remain
- his
- publishers
- to
- this
- day.
- Throughout
- the
- 1930s
- he
- composed
- the
- now
- famous
- poems
- about
- Macavity,
- Old
- Deuteronomy,
- Mr
- Mistoffelees
- and
- many
- other
- cats,
- under
- the
- name
- of
- 'Old
- Possum'.
- In
- 1981
- Eliot's
- poems
- were
- set
- to
- music
- by
- Andrew
- Lloyd
- Webber
- as
- Cats,
- which
- went
- on
- to
- become
- the
- longest-running
- Broadway
- musical
- in
- history
- and
- is
- now
- a
- film
- starring
- Taylor
- Swfit,
- Idris
- Elba,
- Judi
- Dench,
- Ian
- McKellen,
- Rebel
- Wilson,
- Jennifer
- Hudson,
- Jason
- Derulo,
- Francesca
- Hayward
- and
- James
- Corden.
With
- illustrations
- by
- Rebecca Bagley.
