The poetry of which famous writer inspired the musical “Cats”?
The record-breaking musical “Cats” was inspired by the whimsical collection of poems titled “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” by the Nobel Prize-winning writer T.S. Eliot. Originally written in the 1930s as a series of letters to his godchildren, these verses explored the distinct personalities and social structures of various feline characters. Andrew Lloyd Webber, who grew up listening to these poems, decided to set them to music as a creative challenge to see if he could compose melodies for existing text.
