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Jul 25, 2021 · Trevor Nunn takes us through his experience directing 'Cats The Musical'. From Cats (1998): Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS, the most famous musical of all time, first exploded onto the West...
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"Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats" and "Memory" - Lyricist London- 05/1981 - Director Broadway- 1982 - Director US Tour 6- 2019 - Director
Trevor was educated at Downing College, Cambridge, where he acted in and directed many plays for the Marlowe Society. In 1962, he won an ABC television trainee Director’s scholarship to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, where he later became resident director. While there his productions included The Caucasian Chalk Circle, A View From The Bridge and...
Trevor previously directed both Judi Dench and Ian McKellen in Macbeth in 1976. Both co-star in the 2019 film adaptation of Catsas Old Deuteronomy and Gus, respectively.In addition, he directed both original products of Cats and Les Misérables. Tom Hooper, the director of the 2019 film, also helmed the previous film adaptation of Les Misérablesin 2012.A director of musicals in the non-subsidised sector, Nunn directed Cats (1981), formerly the longest running musical in Broadway's history, and the first English production of Les Misérables in 1985, also with John Caird, which ran in London until the summer of 2019.
Producer Cameron Mackintosh then recruited director Trevor Nunn and choreographer Gillian Lynne to turn the songs into a complete musical. Cats opened to positive reviews at the New London Theatre in the West End in 1981 and then to mixed reviews at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway in 1982.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
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"Memory" is a show tune composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Trevor Nunn based on poems by T. S. Eliot. It was written for the 1981 musical Cats , where it is sung primarily by the character Grizabella as a melancholic remembrance of her glamorous past and as a plea for acceptance.
Aug 1, 2016 · Georgina Pazcoguin in the revival of "Cats," directed by Trevor Nunn, in 2016. Richard Termine for The New York Times. CATS. By Charles Isherwood. July 31, 2016. If I soon end up in a...
Dec 18, 2019 · Published Dec. 18, 2019 Updated Dec. 24, 2019. The first trailer for “Cats” — you know which one I’m talking about — is far from the first time the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical has attracted a...
