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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 16, 2019 · 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...
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 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Lynne, was demonstrating cat movements to guests on the lawn, Eliot gave Lloyd Webber an envelope full of her husband’s unpublished cat poems.
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May 14, 2020 · She has the difficult task of devising dance to a sung-through score, where most of the cast on stage throughout. She fuses ballet, jazz, tap, acrobatics and modern dance with, of course, the...
Dec 26, 2019 · Lloyd Webber, in his autobiography, describes how he and Tim Rice visited Valerie Eliot and explained their plan to dramatize Eliot’s cat poems. She looked unconvinced and asked for more details.
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Sep 22, 2002 · The Women Come and Go. By Louis Menand. September 22, 2002. T. S. Eliot's sex life. Do we really want to go there? It is a sad and desolate place. Eliot was twenty-six and, almost certainly,...
