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Mar 21, 2024 · She also revealed that Eliot intended the “Princess Louise” poem, as we came to call it, to be the preface of a book about dogs and cats, but in the end cats prevailed. “The Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles” was the sole survivor of his original scheme.
Dec 5, 2019 · Lloyd Webber met with Valerie Eliot at her apartment in Kensington. He was nervous, but she was gracious. She was adamant about one thing: Under no circumstances were her husband’s cats to be...
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Dec 1, 2019 · According to T.S. Eliot’s widow Valerie Eliot (at least as described in Lloyd Webber’s memoir ), the word comes out of T.S.’s private joke about how the British upper class slurred the words...
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One of Valerie Eliot's most lucrative decisions as executor was granting permission for a stage musical to be based on her husband's work Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. This became the hit Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats . [4]
Dec 16, 2019 · Valerie also brought a letter Eliot had written to his publisher, in which he describes the Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats gathering for an event where they ascend “Up, up, up, to the...
Mar 14, 2013 · The final piece in the book is a lovely set of verses by beloved poet, playwright, and literary critic T. S. Eliot — a famous felinophile, whose 1939 children’s book, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, inspired the iconic Broadway musical Cats — playfully contrasting cats and dogs: From ‘The Ad-Dressing of Cats’ by T. S. Eliot.
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Mar 21, 2024 · This is a continuation of the story about Valerie Eliot and the making of Cats, told here. Let’s start with a typical description of Valerie Eliot’s widowhood: After his death on 4 January 1965, Valerie proved a sterling and inspirational guardian of Eliot’s work.
