This brings so many tears to my eyes. Please make this full production watchable. It's been nearly 20 years, and we should all be able to experience this now. I'm sure I speak for many when I say I'd have no problem paying $25-30 for it.
I think I watched him live in the late 80s or early 90s. And I remember that I fell seriously in LOVE with rum tum tugger (I was young, lol). My absolute favorite.
I didn't even know this existed?! 14 minutes of blurry cats cus I'm just sat here crying and grinning like an idiot, if there is a cat god, please let there be a full show version
Now *this* recording should be released in its completeness on DVD/Bluray for the show's anniversary! It's a record of a uniquely staged and designed production that was never bettered - not on Broadway, not on video.
So nice to see footage from this historical show. What a treasure. And so great to see Bonnie Langford, the original Rumpleteazer, dancing with Tugger. Sarah Jane Honeywell is amazing as Etcetera, too. ❤️ The only shame is it's 15 minutes only.
I was there crying so hard that everything was blur by my tears.... please please please release the entire show!!!! This night matters so many fans who loved this production
The tour was postponed but I am so excited to be able to see it in 2022. I'm a 1998 baby and thus, grew up with the recording that was recorded the same year. In 2020, I had tickets to go and see it with my father, sister and best friend, in Montréal. We will be waiting for 2022 with much enthusiasm!
Enjoy! I saw the North American tour three times in 2019-2020. It is an absolutely incredible production. I'm also a 1998 baby who grew up on that video; watched it so many times that I wore out the VHS!
I saw this production July 1983. My first trip to London. Bought my ticket at a broker. When I got to my seat I was not happy to see the back of the set. Then the overture started and the set moved. I started crying right then and I don't think I stopped until we exited the theater.
Its certainly interesting to see how the productions have varied over the years. Such as Growl tiger number being dropped and included in certain tours
this is such a pure version of cats i seriously love it so much… this is why it was successful because it’s magical. all the new choreo changes messed up the cat illusions for me… the only good new additions where the new props (like jennydots on the giant broom)
I was there for that performance. Forever honoured to have been there. It was amazing. I really wish they would release the whole thing instead of this short clip. 👌
This is so cool! I had never seen the original stage in London and wasn't sure what they meant when the show was originally done in a round theater but now I can see. Cool.
I never knew what "in the round" meant either, so seeing this is really cool! I personally prefer this to a regular stage! It allows more audience participation and interaction in my opinion.
THIS is the best thing this channel has posted in its existence!! Thank yo so much! there is so little footage of the original production! id give so much to see the full thing.
For the love of all things good and feline please release the full recording! The description suggest such exist's and I know many of us here would pay big money for a legal release!
Cats as how it's meant to be! Some shows can work as regular movies, but honestly the second you take the junkyard off a stage and onto a set you've kind of doomed yourself from the start. I can't wait for the tour to come back so I can go be home again
Why does this treasure not exist on dvd or bluray? Cats has only ONE recorded show, the 1998 vhs/dvd. other shows like Les Miserables or Phantom have different live versions, why not Cats? And now especially for the 40th anniversary. Please Lloyd Webber, RELEASE this treasure, its the original production. I, and def. many fans around the world, would pay for it!! PLEASE!!!
100% needs to be released! I know fans would have absolutely no problem paying for it! First saw the show in 1986 & top price tickets were £19.50! How times have changed.
Add a zero onto that price now pp for top price. Thank goddess the prices were so cheap or else I would never have experienced the magic of shoes like carts!
Cats is a show that marked the beginning of a new era in musical theatre. Before Cats there had never been a show so spectacular and magical. This is why Cats is one of the most important shows of musical theatre.
15 minute highlights, meant more to me than the 1998 version in its entirety. Please. Please post THIS production. Oh and as much as love Tim Minchin and John Legend in their own different versions of JCS.....please post the whole Glen Carter Jerome Pradon version from 2000. Think it’s on Netflix. But I’m greedy x
@@Blunts_and_cunts That's about 80% of the show, and it's a lot better than nothing, but it is not as good as the actual show. This video exists but will never be released to the public thanks to paperwork. It is superior to the 1998 video in every way except that the 1998 video has the LSO.
Aaaah so wonderful to see this! I remember this time so well.... I'd only just gotten into CATS the previous year, went to see it in London for the last time in the January of 2001, didn't see this performance but had online friends talking about it... amazing to see this now. Happy 40th ❤️
WOW, thank for the upload!! AMAZING! I was wondering if there is any more footage from the original London cast back in 1981, I would be really curious to see what it looked like. I know there are a couple of scenes from a documentary that are on RUclips, but maybe there some more archival footage that can be uploaded? Many thanks in advance!!
Finally we get to see some archive filmed footage from the closing night performance of the original West End production of Cats at the New London Theatre in May 2002 Now how about releasing the archived filmed performance of Half a Sixpence from Cameron Mackintosh with Charlie Stemp that was done at the Noel Coward Theatre in London on Thursday 24th August and Saturday 2nd September 2017
This is amazing I remember I was at school in 1981 when it first came out and I bought the vinyl which was a double LP. I've loved the music ever since and I love the 1999 version I'm not so keen on the recent version at the cinema but this version here needs to be released in its entirety because it has growltigers last stand on it and that's one of my favourite bits !
Hamburg, more than 20 years ago, LIVE! It was absolutely amazing, a whole pack of handkerchiefs wasted. And one evening later, also in Hamburg, "The Phantom of the Opera".
FROM MAY 11, 1981 - MAY 11 2002 ON THE WEST END, I REMEMBER HEARING ABOUT THE CLOSING, IT WAS STILL PLAYING AT THE PARAMOUNT IN SEATTLE WA, USA UP UNTIL MAY OF 2003, I SAW IT AS LITTLE JOE THE MOONLIGHT CAT ON MY 16TH JELLICLE BIRTHDAY MAY 8, 2003, IT WAS A THURSDAY. THE HUMAN BEHIND THE JELLICLE WAS 26 GOING ONTO 27!
You have to question the mindset of whoever decided about the movie version of this show... when even a show is done in such "spartan" environment as this one... do a BBETTER impression of the Cats than a freaking multi-million dollar cinema movie...
I wish they posted the whole 'Gus The Theatre Cat' clip from this concert. I would happily enjoy the clips from this show, in my opinion they're even better than the 1998 version.
You can tell John Partridge really had that closing night energy.
He was in the 1998 video film as well
And is he the rum tum tugger from this show?!?! 😍😭🤤🥰
@@PaolaGonzalez-gk8nc Yeah
I was thinking it was him but wasn't 100% sure, so thanks for confirming!
@@williamfairchild7439 OMG I love that maaaaaaan!!!!! 😍🤩🥰🤤❤ I think he is the best Tugger EVER ! for me 🥰
This brings so many tears to my eyes. Please make this full production watchable. It's been nearly 20 years, and we should all be able to experience this now. I'm sure I speak for many when I say I'd have no problem paying $25-30 for it.
not gonna lie, I'd pay even more for this legendary show
Even if I had to give up a full amount of my monthly salary to see this I would, without hesitation
Would pay way more than $25-30 to see the whole thing of that performance if that would make them release it.
You can rent it on yt or buy it on DVD, and it wouldn’t cost $30
@@BongoBon360 Thats the 1998 movie version you are thinking about. We want the West End 2002 finale performance, where this highlight is from.
As always John partridge as rum tum tugger STOLE THE WHOLE FREAKEN SHOW..
I think I watched him live in the late 80s or early 90s. And I remember that I fell seriously in LOVE with rum tum tugger (I was young, lol). My absolute favorite.
You say Johnny P's Tugger I say Jack Rebaldi's Munkustrap!
I didn't even know this existed?! 14 minutes of blurry cats cus I'm just sat here crying and grinning like an idiot, if there is a cat god, please let there be a full show version
Now *this* recording should be released in its completeness on DVD/Bluray for the show's anniversary! It's a record of a uniquely staged and designed production that was never bettered - not on Broadway, not on video.
So nice to see footage from this historical show. What a treasure. And so great to see Bonnie Langford, the original Rumpleteazer, dancing with Tugger. Sarah Jane Honeywell is amazing as Etcetera, too. ❤️
The only shame is it's 15 minutes only.
Bonnie Langford was also in 42nd Street and 9 to 5 in London
Nice to get a glimpse of Growltiger’s Last Stand as you certainly never see that anymore.
cats revolutionized the way we see people move onstage. this is a perfect way to close it.
The shot this professionally and we’re just NOW finding out about it!? (Okay, they probably did it on purpose for the 40th anniversary, but still).
They screened this live at Covent Garden on 11 May 2002 so it was known to many fans this existed. I'm so happy they finally share these clips.
@@chrissi2810 I’d love for them to put up the whole thing.
I'm dying to see the whole thing!
Please don't makes me wait another 10 years to watch this production...please..
THIS is what we want to see!!! Please release the full show, we have been waiting for 20 years! 🙏🏻 All those legends in this perfect London show
I agree.
I'm disappointed there was never a dvd realese
I love the double person cartwheel munggojerrie and rumpleteazer made 2:54. Goes to show they really work together.
I would pay so much money to go back in time and see this live
I was there crying so hard that everything was blur by my tears.... please please please release the entire show!!!! This night matters so many fans who loved this production
The tour was postponed but I am so excited to be able to see it in 2022. I'm a 1998 baby and thus, grew up with the recording that was recorded the same year. In 2020, I had tickets to go and see it with my father, sister and best friend, in Montréal. We will be waiting for 2022 with much enthusiasm!
Enjoy! I saw the North American tour three times in 2019-2020. It is an absolutely incredible production. I'm also a 1998 baby who grew up on that video; watched it so many times that I wore out the VHS!
I’m a ‘98 baby also! But in my country musicals are suspended :( Also, they only do them in one city, Enjoy the show!
Happy 40th anniversary, CATS!! I would give anything to see the show live again!
I remember being there watching this in Covent Garden and crying my eyes out at the end. I hope they will release it fully someday
The seating in this theatre looks chaotic but also amazing
The seating has always been like that help-
It was the puuurfect venue! Saw it on Broadway as well, and the experience was not nearly as special.
I saw this production July 1983. My first trip to London. Bought my ticket at a broker. When I got to my seat I was not happy to see the back of the set. Then the overture started and the set moved. I started crying right then and I don't think I stopped until we exited the theater.
Hope that they will publish this version! Such precious footages!
How incredible! Please make this production available to watch in full! People would pay good money for it
Another vote for a release of the whole show. At least a VOD would be nice.
Its certainly interesting to see how the productions have varied over the years. Such as Growl tiger number being dropped and included in certain tours
this is such a pure version of cats i seriously love it so much… this is why it was successful because it’s magical. all the new choreo changes messed up the cat illusions for me… the only good new additions where the new props (like jennydots on the giant broom)
This whole show needs to be released
I was there for that performance. Forever honoured to have been there. It was amazing. I really wish they would release the whole thing instead of this short clip. 👌
This is so cool! I had never seen the original stage in London and wasn't sure what they meant when the show was originally done in a round theater but now I can see. Cool.
I never knew what "in the round" meant either, so seeing this is really cool! I personally prefer this to a regular stage! It allows more audience participation and interaction in my opinion.
THIS is the best thing this channel has posted in its existence!! Thank yo so much! there is so little footage of the original production! id give so much to see the full thing.
I am literally begging you, P L E A S E release this show!
For the love of all things good and feline please release the full recording! The description suggest such exist's and I know many of us here would pay big money for a legal release!
Cats as how it's meant to be! Some shows can work as regular movies, but honestly the second you take the junkyard off a stage and onto a set you've kind of doomed yourself from the start. I can't wait for the tour to come back so I can go be home again
Cats is my favorite musical😍
mine too!!! cats has bring joy to my life since I was five!! I hope you and your loved one's are staying safe!!
Please release full proshot. We'll spend every money for this 🙏😱❤️
Please do the whole thing! We'd all love to see it!
Why does this treasure not exist on dvd or bluray? Cats has only ONE recorded show, the 1998 vhs/dvd. other shows like Les Miserables or Phantom have different live versions, why not Cats? And now especially for the 40th anniversary.
Please Lloyd Webber, RELEASE this treasure, its the original production.
I, and def. many fans around the world, would pay for it!! PLEASE!!!
Beautiful production!! Thank you so much for sharing this special gem for all of us CATS fans around the world to see.
Absolutley amazing...my favourite ever musical.
100% needs to be released! I know fans would have absolutely no problem paying for it! First saw the show in 1986 & top price tickets were £19.50!
How times have changed.
Add a zero onto that price now pp for top price. Thank goddess the prices were so cheap or else I would never have experienced the magic of shoes like carts!
Y'all really decided to make me c r y with closing night, huh? 😩😭
please release the entire performance
I agree with that
Their makeup in this production hits so good
please release it for a few days like you did with the 98 pro shot, we would love it so much!!
I thought the video i had was the only footage. Thank you so much 😭😭
Cats is a show that marked the beginning of a new era in musical theatre. Before Cats there had never been a show so spectacular and magical. This is why Cats is one of the most important shows of musical theatre.
Didn't get a chance to see the last night live as I was stuck at work. Was hoping it had been captured for posterity. Thanks RUG! \o/
I had always missed Growltiger's Land Stand and the Ballad of Billy McCaw in the 1998 video production!
not me hysterically crying, my absolue FAVE 😭😭😭
Honestly such a great and beautiful musical! I would Honestly pay to see the full version of this
15 minute highlights, meant more to me than the 1998 version in its entirety. Please. Please post THIS production.
Oh and as much as love Tim Minchin and John Legend in their own different versions of JCS.....please post the whole Glen Carter Jerome Pradon version from 2000. Think it’s on Netflix. But I’m greedy x
This is really a diamond 💎 🐱🍀✨✨✨ please please the Full Show 🙏❤️
That’s not the closing night show u can buy !
Yes! But I would love to see the complette show of the closing night ..
@@Blunts_and_cunts That's about 80% of the show, and it's a lot better than nothing, but it is not as good as the actual show. This video exists but will never be released to the public thanks to paperwork. It is superior to the 1998 video in every way except that the 1998 video has the LSO.
CATS IS MY LIFE!!! PLEASE RELEASE THE WHOLE THING! TRUE HISTORY. HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY 🐈 CATS!!
Aaaah so wonderful to see this! I remember this time so well.... I'd only just gotten into CATS the previous year, went to see it in London for the last time in the January of 2001, didn't see this performance but had online friends talking about it... amazing to see this now. Happy 40th ❤️
THIS is what we are waiting for!
So, what else does R.U.G. hide in his chests?
Happy 40th anniversary Cats! This is my favorite musical. I wish I could have seen in person.
Please show us the complete video of this lovely London version. Made me homesick for the west end.
Sincerely, Dean
WOW, thank for the upload!! AMAZING! I was wondering if there is any more footage from the original London cast back in 1981, I would be really curious to see what it looked like. I know there are a couple of scenes from a documentary that are on RUclips, but maybe there some more archival footage that can be uploaded? Many thanks in advance!!
Finally we get to see some archive filmed footage from the closing night performance of the original West End production of Cats at the New London Theatre in May 2002
Now how about releasing the archived filmed performance of Half a Sixpence from Cameron Mackintosh with Charlie Stemp that was done at the Noel Coward Theatre in London on Thursday 24th August and Saturday 2nd September 2017
2:42-3:01: from a person who was never able to successfully do a cartwheel, I love this move so much 😂
This is amazing I remember I was at school in 1981 when it first came out and I bought the vinyl which was a double LP. I've loved the music ever since and I love the 1999 version I'm not so keen on the recent version at the cinema but this version here needs to be released in its entirety because it has growltigers last stand on it and that's one of my favourite bits !
Thanks so much for this!!! One of the best memories of my life
THere's one thing the Cats movie did right: it got me interested in this fabulous show!!!!!!!!
Can we talk about how perfect that laugh is at 2:33 it’s so subtle but adds so much to the performance
How do I get this full 2 hours of footage because I'm dying without it!😭
Didn't know they ever did it in the round, learn something new every day.
Thank you so much for these rare gems
Hamburg, more than 20 years ago, LIVE! It was absolutely amazing, a whole pack of handkerchiefs wasted. And one evening later, also in Hamburg, "The Phantom of the Opera".
y'all saying you'd pay $30 to see this whole show... well i'm autistic and cats is my special interest. i'd blow my entire college fund to see this.
Maybe they can remaster this and get a better quality and sell it as a dvd. I would buy it
They could’ve put this in theaters instead of the Tom hooper film
@@austinpearce5442 true
I love it. Thanks for sharing this amazing presentation
Oh god is that john partridge i see??? I really need the entire version
Wow 🥰🥰 saw this newer production in dec ‘19 with my best friend And liked it very much.
Cats was my first show ever when I was 14, been in love with the soundtrack ever since !
Okay now drop the whole thing
please! full original stage video as soon as posible !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm crying of emotion of remember me on New theatre london in 2000.
Nice to hear ALW credit TS Eliot at the end. His words are such a huge part of the success of the show.
お客様からえらばれつづけて愛されているコカイン！🐈
Please upload the full proshot! It would be a better Cats than the 2019 movie!
Crazy how the first run of this show started when my mom was 4 years old and ended just days before I was born
i would have seen many members of this cast back when i saw this show back in 2001/2002
OMG this is pure gold!
Please SALW and Really Useful Co., we’d love to see CATS going back to Broadway/ West End! 😻
Majestic, actual chills, wow. 🙌
a 40th Anniversary Cats Musical tour would be amazing to see
Would be absolutely willing to PAY to see an on-demand playing of CATS.
This is the cast I remember from my youth.. rum Tum tugger was among my first crushes and still hot today! Reminds me of Billy Idol. Meow ☺️
Wow so many familiar faces😊
i saw the show in person in Ft. Worth. it was soooooo wonderful.
FROM MAY 11, 1981 - MAY 11 2002 ON THE WEST END, I REMEMBER HEARING ABOUT THE CLOSING, IT WAS STILL PLAYING AT THE PARAMOUNT IN SEATTLE WA, USA UP UNTIL MAY OF 2003, I SAW IT AS LITTLE JOE THE MOONLIGHT CAT ON MY 16TH JELLICLE BIRTHDAY MAY 8, 2003, IT WAS A THURSDAY. THE HUMAN BEHIND THE JELLICLE WAS 26 GOING ONTO 27!
Chrissie hammond phenomenal voice ❤️
21 years. There is a possibility that one of the performers in the final performance was born AFTER the first performance.
Just so you know... not even people who were performing that night have a copy, for most it’s the first time they have seen this video
And the Jellicle Ball stops the show. A. Maz. Ing!
You have to question the mindset of whoever decided about the movie version of this show... when even a show is done in such "spartan" environment as this one... do a BBETTER impression of the Cats than a freaking multi-million dollar cinema movie...
Yeah the movie is terrible. People need to see it LIVE and in person.
I like how the video production tuned down some of the makeup, cause this thumbnail is legitimately terrifying
A historical recording❣
And 20 years later i was inside the same theatre watching a New ALW show Cinderella
MAGNÍFICO ESPETACULAR
👏👏👏👏👏👍de Macapá Amapá Brasil 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Tugger 😍
Wonderful!
I wish they posted the whole 'Gus The Theatre Cat' clip from this concert. I would happily enjoy the clips from this show, in my opinion they're even better than the 1998 version.