Download or read book How Cats Made It to the Stage written by Peg Robinson and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In theater, some shows succeed and some fail. Cats, which opened in London on May 11, 1981, and in New York City on October 7, 1982, was a success that changed history. The Hamilton of its time, and a winner even now, Cats has become one of the great landmark musicals of British and American theater. Treat your readers to the real story of the show. Covering the show's roots in the comic poetry of T. S. Eliot through to the musical's modern revivals, this book traces the history of an iconic Broadway hit.