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1. karenchristensen.org › valerie-eliot-and-theValerie Eliot and the making of CATS - Karen Christensen

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   Mar 21, 2024 · At last, with the aid of a few extra Eliot cat names Valerie unearthed, we began a proper cast breakdown. When I started working for Valerie in 1986, the musical Cats was only a few years into its record-breaking run in London, but it had already made her a wealthy woman. She was rather defensive about this success.

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   Dec 5, 2019 · Cats has grossed nearly $3 billion worldwide. Its take-home tune, “Memory,” is the most lucrative song ever to come out of the musical theater. A friend of Lloyd Webber’s says that whenever ...

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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.

5. www.newyorker.com › culture › culture-deskThe Improbable Insanity of “Cats” - The New Yorker

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   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 Russell ...

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   Jan 5, 2018 · Included in the unpublished work Valerie gave ALW was a poem about Grizabella the Glamour Cat, which Eliot left out of the book because he thought it was too sad for children. This unpublished poem had a deeper meaning and inspired ALW to create a musical. The poem about Grizabella was only eight lines long but gave the story a tiny plot line.

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   May 14, 2020 · 1980 Songs from the then-titled Practical Cats are performed at Sydmonton Festival. The presence of one very significant audience member changes everything: Valerie Eliot, widow of TS Eliot, is ...

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   What did Valerie Eliot do for a living?

   • 1990 Valerie Eliot sets up the Old Possum’s Practical Trust, using the funds she received from the musical’s success. It supports literary, artistic and other creative organisations, and also enabled the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry to be established. 1994 Cats has a reported worldwide box office gross of $2billion.

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   Who was Esmé Valerie Eliot?

   • Esmé Valerie Eliot (née Fletcher; 17 August 1926 – 9 November 2012) was the second wife and later widow of the Nobel prize -winning poet T. S. Eliot. She was a major shareholder in the publishing firm of Faber and Faber Limited and the editor and annotator of a number of books dealing with her late husband's writings.

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   What did Eliot say about the Pollicle Dogs & Jellicle cats?

   • 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 Russell Hotel / Up, up, up, to the Heaviside Layer.” (“There are several ways in which this might be a failure,” Eliot noted.)

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   Are Eliot's Cats practical?

   • Eliot’s cats are practical in an archaic sense of the word: they scheme and keep busy. (Macavity, a cat criminal, was based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s Professor Moriarty.) Eliot drew the book’s cover illustration: a dandy helping a line of cats climb over a wall. The book became a hit.

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9. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Valerie_EliotValerie Eliot - Wikipedia

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   T. S. Eliot. . . ( m. 1957; died 1965) . Esmé Valerie Eliot (née Fletcher; 17 August 1926 – 9 November 2012) was the second wife and later widow of the Nobel prize -winning poet T. S. Eliot. She was a major shareholder in the publishing firm of Faber and Faber Limited and the editor and annotator of a number of books dealing with her late ...