''We seem to be a one-tune show.''īetty Buckley, who sings ''Memory,'' won the award for best featured actress in a musical.
Weber took note of the fact that the orchestra played ''Memory,'' the hit song from the show, every time ''Cats'' won an award. The Tony Eligibility Committee ruled that Eliot's writings about cats were eligible for awards because they have not been performed previously in the theater. Eliot, who died in 1965 and is not known to have harbored an ambition to write a Broadway musical, won a Tony for best book of a musical and shared the award for best score with Andrew Lloyd Weber, who wrote the music for ''Cats.'' Eliot's widow, who accepted his award for best book, said, ''More than 30 years ago my husband received a Tony Award for his 'Cocktail Party.' This award would give my husband special pleasure.'' Eliot Writings Eligible Napier received a prize for his furry costumes. John Napier, the designer, has filled every nook and cranny with a Red Groomesque collage of outsized rubbish, as seen from a cat's perspective.ĭavid Hersey won a Tony for his dazzling lighting, which extends throughout the theater, and Mr.
The Winter Garden Theater, where it is playing, has been transformed into a spectacular nocturnal junkyard for Eliot's flighty ''jellicle'' cats. Eliot's 1939 ''Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats,'' a volume of light verse, ''Cats'' is made up of songs about a menagerie of feline characters. The production cost $5 million, also a Broadway record.īased on T.S. The top ticket price for nearly all performances is $45 - the highest on Broadway. ''Cats'' arrived on Broadway last October with a blaze of publicity and a huge advance sale. ''All I suppose I can do at this moment is to purr,'' he said with a big grin as he accepted his award. He first staged ''Cats'' two years ago in London, where it is a big hit, and then recast it here with American actors. Nunn is artistic director of the company. Last year he won as best director for the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic production, ''Nicholas Nickleby.'' Mr. Trevor Nunn, the director of ''Cats,'' picked up his second Tony in two years.
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