Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats Assignments
"Practical Cats": individual poems' notes
T.S. Eliot
Though an American by birth, T.S. Eliot became known as a British poet, as he emigrated to England at the age of 25 and later became a naturalized citizen. |
A Broadway Musical
Andrew Lloyd Webber created the musical Cats in 1981. It was based on T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and it went on to become the second-longest running show on Broadway, surpassed only by Webber's The Phantom of the Opera. |