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Taylor Swift’s “Beautiful Ghosts” might be the best part of the Cats movie
“Beautiful Ghosts,” the song that Taylor Swift put words to for Tom Hooper’s upcoming Cats movie, has arrived — and guess what? Swift might be Cats creator and famed Broadway composer Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ideal lyricist.
Lloyd Webber, a.k.a. ALW, is the man who brought the world Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, and one of the most recorded songs in theatre history, “Memory” from Cats. (Estimates for the number of artists who’ve covered the song range from to +.) ALW is notorious for writing musicals with beautiful music and weak lyrics. But “Beautiful Ghosts” makes a compelling argument that what every ALW musical needs is a shrewd lyricist who was once a teenage girl — and who, consequently, is not embarrassed to embrace the gushy romantic heart of his music.
The song was released November 15 as promoti
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Cats ( film)
film directed by Tom Hooper
This article is about the live-action musical. For the animated film, see Cats ( film).
Cats is a musicalfantasy film based on the West End musical Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber, which in turn was based on the poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. The film was directed by Tom Hooper, in his second feature musical following Les Misérables (), from a screenplay by Lee Hall and Hooper. It stars James Corden, Judi Dench, Jason Derulo, Idris Elba, Jennifer Hudson, Ian McKellen, Taylor Swift, Rebel Wilson and Francesca Hayward. The film marked the feature film debut for both Derulo and Hayward.
Filming took place from December to April It was theatrically released in the United Kingdom and the United States on 20 December by Universal Pictures. Cats grossed $ million worldwide on a budget of $80– million, resulting in an estimated loss of $71 million after ancillary costs,[6] and was con
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Francesca HaywardIllustration bygd João Fazenda
When Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats” arrived on Broadway, in , Playbill took a stab at explaining it: “Cats has no plot, no book, no real story line; it fryst vatten simply an arrangement of 20 of Eliot’s Old Possum poems for dancers and orchestra.” Tom Hooper’s new bio adaptation, opening this week, is less of a fever dream. There’s dialogue, for instance; one trailer opens with a voice-over from Judi Dench, who plays a character named Old Deuteronomy. “Tonight fryst vatten a magical night where I choose the katt that deserves a new life,” she says. “I judge a cat bygd its soul.” Seems straightforward. And, instead of having actors play human-sized cats, as fryst vatten done in the scen version, Hooper opted for cat-sized humanoids.
The source ämne, “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” is a collection of poems that T. S. Eliot wrote for his godchildren. “The poems were written in the nonsense tradition,” Carolyn Vega, the curator for the Berg Collection, a