Cat is the most successful play in the history of musical, and once became synonymous with musical. Created in 1981, it is the longest-running musical in London and the longest-running tour in the history of American drama. It premiered at the New London Theatre in West End of London on May 11, 1981, with eight performances a week and closed on Mondays. It continued to perform until its 21st birthday on May 11, 22, when it ended in the same theater. The total performance time of Cats in the United States was 16 years and 2 months, and the total revenue of this play alone exceeded 2 billion US dollars. By the time the show officially announced its suspension in June 2, it had performed more than 6, performances around the world. The play is well-written, with superb performance. The 36 actors have their own unique skills. The old cat Griese Bella in the film is played by the familiar Elena Peggy, who is called the "First Lady" of the British musical by some media.

Musical is a very young performing art. After nearly a hundred years of development, it has produced many works with different styles. Cat belongs to a musical that is closer to singing and dancing. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber arranged the music according to Nobel Prize in Literature winner TS Eliot's long poem "An Old Cat Good at Dressing Up". The story of Cats is simple: the cats in Jericho hold a dance every year, and the cats will choose a cat to ascend to heaven at the annual grand party. As a result, all kinds of cats appeared one after another and showed themselves to their fullest. Finally, Griese Bela, a cat that was once radiant, but is extremely untidy today, touched all the cats present with a song "Memories" and became a cat that can ascend to heaven.

the role in cats: "the leader cat". The leader of the cat family is full of wisdom and experience. He must attend the annual cat meeting and finally decide which cat can ascend to heaven and be reborn. "Charming Cat", the representative of mature women in the play, is the lead dancer at the climax of the whole play. Under the blue-green light, only her red fur is full of warmth; Charming cat. When I was young, I was the most beautiful cat family. I was tired of the cat family's life and wandered outside, but I tasted the world's coldness. When I returned to the cat family, I was extremely ugly. She looked most like a human being, with long hair shawls, black evening dress and high heels. A song "Memories" calmed the hostility of all cats to her and aroused deep sympathy and pity for her. There are also rich cats, nanny cats, theater cats, rock cats, crime cats, charming cats, hero cats, superman cats and magic cats. This group of cats, which are varied, different and personified, make up the world of cats. At the dance, they all showed their talents; Singing, dancing or playing, staged a soul-stirring "human tragicomedy", telling the theme of love and tolerance.

The dance and music in Cats are quite outstanding. In order to express their feelings, the directors spared no expense in using a lot of dance scenes to express the different characteristics and personalities of cats. There are not only light and lively tap dances, but also dignified and gorgeous ballet, jazz dance and modern dance full of movement. How to make it look good, how to make it up, there is no frame, ingenuity, and eclecticism. Especially the dance of the "Jerik Ball" that lasted for more than ten minutes, the scene was grand and passionate, which made people fascinated.

Like dancing, the music of "cats" is very moving. The whole play lasts for three hours, and * * * consists of twenty pieces of music. In addition to the dance music with different dance scenes, the theme song Memory, which appeared four times before and after, is a golden song that you can never get tired of listening to. At first, on the eve of the premiere of Cats, the director was still not satisfied with the music of the whole play, thinking that there was still a lack of emotional climax and a core aria. That night, Weber went home and thought hard all night, and finally wrote this song "Memories", which has since become one of the most popular songs in the world. Early the next morning, the director recalled that he said, "How about this?" "At that time, we were having a meeting in the rehearsal room, where we played the music again. Then, I said to everyone, "Remember this day, this moment, because you just heard a wonderful and extraordinary song. "What is even more unusual is that at that time, this song only had melody and no lyrics. Only a few days left before the premiere, the director came to his house in the country and wrote the lyrics by himself: "It was late at night, the street was filled with silence, and the moon was looking for a dream, leaving a lonely back ... Memories were always accompanied by moonlight, and only the beautiful scenery of the past in the dream was still radiant. Seeing the dawn of the East, I want to meet the rising sun and start a new life, and I will never give in to fate. "(translated by Xue Fan) Since then," Memories "has spread all over the world and become a contemporary classic song, which has been recorded for more than 6 times and won many awards.

The stage of Cat is also wonderful. Its design concept is "the world seen from the eyes of a cat". The audience can see a garbage dump from the perspective of their seats, with more than 15 toothpaste tubes, broken dishes, bad credit cards, coke cans, abandoned cars and other kinds of garbage piled up on it, all enlarged according to the size in the cat's eye. There is also a 5-ton overpass on the stage for cats to play up and down. During the performance, there are three workers hiding under the bridge to control the smoke and lights and create a "magic cat". The costumes of Cats are all designed according to the image characteristics of each cat. There are more than 25 sets of * * *, which vividly depict the skin color and fur patterns of cats of different ages and genders. Each actor is painted as a cat face consistent with his identity, and with more than 3 wigs of different colors and textures, he vividly dresses up cats with different personalities.