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Mar 21, 2024 · Valerie Eliot’s contribution to Cats has been unsung, largely because of her own concern about how she was viewed as a guardian of her husband’s literary legacy. The wealth it generated has huge consequences for her personally, and I’ve been puzzling over this since not long after her death in 2012.
Dec 5, 2019 · As the show’s choreographer, Gillian Lynne, was demonstrating cat movements to guests on the lawn, Eliot gave Lloyd Webber an envelope full of her husband’s unpublished cat poems.
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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]
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.
Jan 5, 2018 · However, ALW's entire life changed the night of that concert, because T.S Eliot's wife, Valerie Eliot, attended and absolutely loved what he composed. When ALW met her that evening, she generously gave him some unpublished poems and her blessing to adapt his concert into a musical.
Nov 17, 2012 · This week, we learned that the wife of another literary legend has died. Valerie Eliot, T.S. Eliot's second wife, was 86. The man who wrote "The Waste Land," which is perhaps the bleakest ...
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May 13, 1984 · What kind of poet turns cats into doggerel -- The sort that cavort on the National's stage? You might think Rod McKuen or hacks pseudonymical, But it's old T. S. Eliot, the Nobel-winning sage!
