Cats (musical)

Cats is a sung-through musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber  , based on Old Possum Book of Practical Cats   by T.S Eliot , and produced by Cameron Mackintosh . 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. Cats introduced the song standard "Memory" . The first performance of  Cats was in 1981.