"Rum Tum Tugger Rum Tum Tugger is one of the many feline characters in the poetry book ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"" by T. S. Eliot, published in 1939, and in the musical ""Cats"", which premiered in 1981 and is based on Eliot's book. Eliot draws attention to the similarities between feline and human personality traits. Rum Tum Tugger is portrayed as the rebel cat who cannot help but be difficult. He is never satisfied with what you give him; He is notoriously hard to please and sets himself apart from others by trying to be different. He always"
"one of the most moving poems Eliot wrote, and perhaps the ""most perfect"", though it was not well received by everyone. The poem's groundwork of orthodox Christianity discomfited many of the more secular ""literati"". In 1939, Eliot published a book of light verse, ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"" (""Old Possum"" was Ezra Pound's nickname for him). This first edition had an illustration of the author on the cover. In 1954, the composer Alan Rawsthorne set six of the poems for speaker and orchestra in a work titled ""Practical Cats"". After Eliot's death, the book was adapted as the basis"
"Scheffler (2009). The contents of ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"", along with the names of the featured cats where appropriate, are: In 1954, English composer Alan Rawsthorne set six of the poems in a work for speaker and orchestra entitled ""Practical Cats"", which was recorded soon afterwards, with the actor Robert Donat as the speaker. At about the same time another English composer, Humphrey Searle, composed another narrated piece based on the poems, using flute, piccolo, cello and guitar. This work, ""Two Practical Cats"", consists of settings of the poems about Macavity and Growltiger. The best-known musical adaptation of"
"Broadway cast, and by Luke Baxter in the original London production. Pouncival is essentially the same character as Carbucketty. Over the years the name Carbucketty was used in London, and Pouncival on Broadway and subsequent productions. Robert Burke (Currently in the closing cast of the North American Tour 2012) Steve Konopelski, Jacob Brent, Trevor Downey, Michael J. Rios, Karl Morgan, Josh Andrews and Caleb Bartolo in the Australian 2010 Tour. Pouncival is played by Sharrod Williams in the 2016 Broadway Revival. Pouncival Pouncival is a character in the musical ""Cats"" and in T. S. Eliot's ""Old Possum's Book of Practical"
"Pouncival Pouncival is a character in the musical ""Cats"" and in T. S. Eliot's ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"" (on which the musical was based). He is brown, white, gray, and black and has a lot of freckles. He is portrayed as a tom between kittenhood and adulthood in most productions of the musical. He is usually played by an actor trained in gymnastics, for he pounces, does leaps and handsprings throughout the production, as well as using the flying trapeze. He has been played by Karl Morgan in the 1998 filmed version, Herman W. Sebek in the original"
"Rumpus Cat The Great Rumpus Cat is a fictional character from T.S. Eliot's book ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"" and in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, ""Cats"". The Great Rumpus Cat appears in the poem ""Of the Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles."" The poem describes a contentious encounter between a Peke and a Pollicle dog which eventually leads to the participation of other dogs and a great deal of barking, heard throughout the park. The Great Rumpuscat nonchalantly intervenes and scatters the dogs merely by his threatening appearance and a single great leap. The Great Rumpuscat is"
"Uncle Remus-inspired dialect, referring to themselves as ""Brer Rabbit"" and ""Old Possum,"" respectively. Eventually the dialect and the personae became a sign of their collaboration against the London literary establishment. Eliot titled one of his books ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"". Ralph Bakshi wrote and directed a 1975 American live action/animated crime film titled ""Coonskin"" based on Harris' Brothers rabbit, fox, and bear who rise to the top of the organized crime racket in Harlem, encountering corrupt law enforcement, con artists, and the Mafia. In 1946, the Walt Disney Company produced a film based on the Uncle Remus tales"
"to 1967. During the 1930s Bentley illustrated works ranging from J. B. Morton to Damon Runyon. His most famous drawings were to illustrate T. S. Eliot's ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"", but he illustrated more than 70 books in the course of a long career. He customarily used the byline ""Nicolas Bentley drew the pictures"". His favourite illustration work was for his own books and he considered himself primarily an author. One of his best-known books, ""Ready Refusals, or, The White Liar's Engagement Book"" gives a quotation for every day of the year, drawn from a surprisingly wide range"
"Possum's Book of Practical Cats"" (1939), a collection of light verse; ""Poems Written in Early Youth"", posthumously published in 1967 and consisting mainly of poems published between 1907 and 1910 in ""The Harvard Advocate"", and ""Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909–1917"", material Eliot never intended to have published, which appeared posthumously in 1997. During an interview in 1959, Eliot said of his nationality and its role in his work: ""I'd say that my poetry has obviously more in common with my distinguished contemporaries in America than with anything written in my generation in England. That I'm sure of. ..."
"Growltiger's Last Stand Growltiger is a fictional character appearing in both T.S. Elliot's ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"" and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical ""Cats"" which was based upon T.S Elliot's writing. He is described as a ""bravo cat who lived upon a barge"", one who scoured the Thames from Gravesend to Oxford, terrorizing the inhabitants along the river, including ""cottagers"", canaries, geese, hens, ""pampered Pekinese"", and the ""bristly Bandicoot that lurks on foreign ships"". Growltiger is usually envisioned as a pirate, although he is never explicitly described as such. He has lost one eye, and one of his ears"
"Liddell of ""The Guardian"" said: ""Pinter has become the Macavity of English letters"". Macavity is the name given by several bus drivers from the West Midlands, United Kingdom to a white odd-eyed cat which, since January 2007, has been observed to regularly use the local bus service on its own. Macavity's fur is reported to be completely white, he has a green left eye and a blue right eye, and he wears a purple collar. His owner and true name are unknown. Macavity Macavity is a fictional character who is described in a poem in ""Old Possum's Book of Practical"
"and Kenneth Ard, doubling as Macavity created the part on Broadway. It appears, as his costume in the film version suggests, that he is considered a type of superhero in the Jellicle society. In the film version, Rumpus Cat is played by Frank Thompson who also plays Admetus. In the 2016 Broadway Revival The Rumpus Cat is played by Christopher Gurr who also plays Bustopher Jones and Gus the Theater Cat. The rumpus cat is a replacement to Growltiger in this revival. Rumpus Cat The Great Rumpus Cat is a fictional character from T.S. Eliot's book ""Old Possum's Book of"
"Chris Pascoe Christopher Paul Pascoe (born 26 April 1966) is an English author of humorous books. His first two books 'A Cat Called Birmingham' (Hodder & Stoughton 2005) and 'You Can Take the Cat Out of Slough' (Hodder & Stoughton 2007) tell the story of a disaster prone cat named Birmingham. A Cat Called Birmingham has since been translated into French and Chinese. In France, the book is entitled 'Monsieur Chatastrophe'. The book caused controversy in Birmingham because it was seen as a slur on the city by a London-based author You Can Take the Cat Out of Slough has"
"Etcetera (cat) Etcetera is a fictional character in ""Cats"", the musical play based primarily on T.S. Eliot's ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"". Primarily a dancer, she is one of the chorus line kittens in the tribe of the Jellicle cats. Etcetera was originally an unnamed chorus kitten in the original Andrew Lloyd Webber production of ""Cats"". However, the role was soon given a name and a definite character. Her defining moment is at the end of Rum Tum Tugger's song, she is so overexcited by his charisma that she can not stop squealing until he physically quiets her, often"
"Paul van Loon and Toon Tellegen. He lives in Blackheath, London. Scheffler was commissioned by Faber and Faber to provide new illustrations for a new edition of ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"" that commemorated the 70th anniversary of the book and the 80th anniversary of Faber and Faber. This new edition was published in October 2009. He illustrated Gordon Brown's 2006 Christmas cards and all seven Christmas 2012 stamps designed by Webb & Webb Design Limited for Royal Mail. Axel Scheffler Axel Scheffler (born 1957) is a German illustrator and animator based in London. He is best known for"
"UK tour also has a completely new piece of music used for the Beetles Tattoo segment of ""The Old Gumbie Cat"", a reworked jazz version of ""Growltiger's Last Stand"", and the reinstating of ""Una Tepida Notte"", replacing ""The Ballad of Billy M'Caw"". In the 2016 Broadway revival, the ""Growltiger's Last Stand"" number was replaced by ""The Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles"". With Gus remembering that he had played the part of the Great Rumpus Cat instead of Growltiger. Cats (musical) Cats is a sung-through musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on ""Old Possum's Book of Practical"
"Sly Old Cat"" is told mainly in monosyllables, and is critically considered ""perfect in its fusion of word and picture, and visually reminiscent of Randolph Caldecott in its rythmic narrative flow."" The Sly Old Cat The Sly Old Cat is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter in 1906, and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in 1971, almost thirty years after her death. The story tells of a cat who invites a rat to a tea party with the intention of eating him, but the rat outwits her and leaves the party with a muffin in"
"Puss in Boots ""Master Cat, or The Booted Cat"" (; ), commonly known in English as ""Puss in Boots"", is a European literary fairy tale about a cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth, and the hand of a princess in marriage for his penniless and low-born master. The oldest telling is by Italian author Giovanni Francesco Straparola, who included it in his ""The Facetious Nights of Straparola"" (c. 1550–53) in XIV–XV. Another version was published in 1634 by Giambattista Basile with the title ""Cagliuso"", and a tale was written in French at the close of the"
"Pussy Cat Pussy Cat ""Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat"" is a popular English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 15094. Common modern versions include: The melody commonly associated with the rhyme was first noted by the composer and nursery rhyme collector James William Elliott in his ""National Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Songs"" (1870).For the original version, there is no 'do' in 'what did you there'. The poem was translated into Russian by a Soviet writer, translator and children's poet of Jewish origin, Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak. His translation, however, does not preserve the original prosody and"
"The Sly Old Cat The Sly Old Cat is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter in 1906, and first published by Frederick Warne & Co. in 1971, almost thirty years after her death. The story tells of a cat who invites a rat to a tea party with the intention of eating him, but the rat outwits her and leaves the party with a muffin in a paper bag. The story was written in 1906 for her publisher's daughter, and was intended to be published in 1907 as a panorama book, a long strip of paper with"
"suggests the frenetic scramble at the sound of the piper."" Papers about her career, including exhibition catalogs, artist's statements, publications, brochures, and reviews are held at the Smithsonian Libraries. Elizabeth Fearne Bonsall Elizabeth Fearne Bonsall (September 12, 1861 – September 25, 1956) was an American painter and illustrator. She illustrated ""The Book of Cats"" (1903), ""The Book of Dogs"", ""The Pied Piper of Hamelin"" (1927), and other books. She created illustrations for Henry Christopher McCook's ""American Spiders and their Spinningwork"". McCook credits her for making most of the illustrations for the volume. Bonsall also created illustrations for magazines. She won"
"unique, and one that only the cat knows. He refers to one cat in particular: Gus, short for Asparagus. Gus: The Theatre Cat ""Gus: The Theatre Cat"" is a poem by T. S. Eliot included in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Known as ""The Theatre Cat"" due to his career as an actor, Gus is an old and frail, yet revered, cat, who ""suffers from palsy, which makes his paws shake."" His coat is described as ""shabby"" and he is ""no longer a terror to mice or to rats."" Gus, whose full name is Asparagus, is also a character"
"Louis J. Camuti Louis J. Camuti (August 30, 1893 – February 24, 1981) was a New York City cat veterinarian who made housecalls on cats and their people for over sixty years. He was the first veterinarian in the United States to devote his entire practice to cats. Camuti co-authored two books, ""Park Avenue Vet"" with Lloyd Alexander, published in 1962, and his autobiography, ""All My Patients Are Under The Bed: Memoirs of a Cat Doctor"" with Marilyn and Haskel Frankel, published in 1980. Camuti was born in Parma, Italy, on August 30, 1893 and grew up in Manhattan, New"
"Elizabeth Fearne Bonsall Elizabeth Fearne Bonsall (September 12, 1861 – September 25, 1956) was an American painter and illustrator. She illustrated ""The Book of Cats"" (1903), ""The Book of Dogs"", ""The Pied Piper of Hamelin"" (1927), and other books. She created illustrations for Henry Christopher McCook's ""American Spiders and their Spinningwork"". McCook credits her for making most of the illustrations for the volume. Bonsall also created illustrations for magazines. She won several awards for her works between 1885 and 1897. Bonsall was a student of Howard Pyle and Thomas Eakins and member of The Plastic Club in the United States."
"Janette Sebring Lowrey Janette Sebring Lowrey (March 2, 1892 – March 17, 1986) was an American children's writer, best known for writing the beloved children's classic, ""The Poky Little Puppy"". Janette Sebring Lowrey was born in Orange, Texas. Lowrey wrote dozens of books aimed at children and young adults from the 1930s to the 1970s, but ""The Poky Little Puppy"" remains her best known, selling over 15 million copies worldwide. Another well-known work of hers was ""Margaret"", a historical fiction young adult novel, which was published in 1950. It was adapted into """", a TV serial which aired on ""The"
"Father Goose's Year Book Father Goose's Year Book: Quaint Quacks and Feathered Shafts for Mature Children is a collection of humorous nonsense poetry written by L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books. It was published in 1907. The book was illustrated by Walter J. Enright; he was the husband of Maginel Wright Enright, the artist who illustrated Baum's ""The Twinkle Tales"" (1906), ""Policeman Bluejay"" (1907), and ""L. Frank Baum's Juvenile Speaker"" (1910). As its title indicates, ""Father Goose's Year Book"" was an attempt to capitalize on the prior success of """", the 1899 collaboration between Baum and W. W."
"Father Goose's Year Book Father Goose's Year Book: Quaint Quacks and Feathered Shafts for Mature Children is a collection of humorous nonsense poetry written by L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books. It was published in 1907. The book was illustrated by Walter J. Enright; he was the husband of Maginel Wright Enright, the artist who illustrated Baum's ""The Twinkle Tales"" (1906), ""Policeman Bluejay"" (1907), and ""L. Frank Baum's Juvenile Speaker"" (1910). As its title indicates, ""Father Goose's Year Book"" was an attempt to capitalize on the prior success of """", the 1899 collaboration between Baum and W. W."
"enacted. Richard named The Tombs after a poem from T.S. Eliot's """"Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats""” in “Bustopher Jones, The Cat About Town” enjoys lunch at the tomb. During his service in the Air Force, Richard’s nickname was “Bustopher Cat.” 1789 is decorated with original antiques in an upscale and classic “Old Georgetown” setting. The Tombs reflects themes of sports, the bar is surrounded by original World War One posters, while the Sweeps section celebrates rowing with original antique prints of the sport and oars painted in the colors of the great rowing collegiate teams. Richard loved Georgetown Rowing"
"The Cat Inside The Cat Inside is an autobiographical novella written by William S. Burroughs and illustrated by Brion Gysin. The book was first published by Grenfell Press in 1986 in an edition of only 133 copies; it was later reissued by Viking Press in 1992 in a mass market hardcover edition. In the book Burroughs, a noted lover of cats, reminisces about the many cats in his life. Gysin, a frequent collaborator with Burroughs dating back to the early 1960s, died in 1986, making this possibly the last work he did with Burroughs. Gysin is also referenced by name"
"Familien de Cats Familien de Cats (The de Cats Family) was the third short story written by the Danish writer Karen Blixen under the pen name Osceola, a famous early 19th-century Native American leader. Published in the literary journal ""Tilskueren"" in January 1909, it followed ""Eneboerne"" (The Hermits) and ""Pløjeren"" (The Ploughman), both published in 1907. It tells the story of a law-abiding family which in each generation has a black sheep who turns out to be its secret blessing. Although Blixen, then Karen Dinesen, wrote hundreds of pages of poems, essays and stories in her youth, it was only"
"The Cat (novel) The Cat (French: Le Chat) is a novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon, released in 1967. The novel was written, usually for Simenon, within a short period of two weeks between September and October 1966. It was published in France in 1967 by Presses de la Cité, after Simenon had already released around 200 other books. The work bears elements of psychological fiction and black comedy. It tells a story of an elderly married couple in their early 70s, who have been loathing each other for years for killing each other's pets. They have not been"
"away Grizabella in ""The Jellicle Ball"", when he rescues Demeter, and when he takes over fighting Macavity after Munkustrap falls. In the end he also tried to touch and accept Grizabella back to the tribe. Luke McCollum, Jason Gardiner, Roland Alexander, Hector Jaime Mercado, John Partridge, Edward Lawrence, Trenard Mobley, Leonardo Wagner, Mitchell Hartwell, Robin Langen, Ziyad Sadek, Ahmad Simmons and Shaun Mendum. Alonzo (cat) Alonzo is a character in T. S. Eliot's ""Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"" and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical ""Cats"". His name is mentioned first in the ""Naming of Cats"". His actor sometimes doubles as"
"the International Spy Museum. According to a postwar study of the ""Snafu"" cartoons, the wartime experiences of authors Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Philip D. Eastman, and Munro Leaf shaped their successful postwar children's books, especially the use of simple language, and some of the themes. Dr. Seuss wrote ""The Cat in the Hat"" (1957) because Geisel believed the widely used Dick and Jane primers were too boring to encourage children to read. Geisel, Eastman, and Leaf authored books designed to promote personal responsibility, conservation, and respect for multiculturalism, while teaching and accepting the reality of sex differences. Some racial characterisations"