Compact disc

Overture (2:48) -- Prologue: Jellicle songs for jellicle cats (5:18) -- The naming of cats (3:02) -- The invitation to the jellicle ball (2:10) -- The old Gumbie cat (3:48) -- The rum tum tugger (3:42) -- Grizabella, the glamour cat (3:05) -- Bustopher Jones (3:07) -- Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer (4:28) -- Old Deuteronomy (4:02) -- The jellicle ball (9:34) -- Grizabella (4:19)

Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on "Old possum's book of practical cats" by T.S. Eliot

(con't) The moments of happiness (3:11) -- Gus, the theatre cat (6:33) -- "Growltiger's last stand" including "The ballad of Billy McCaw" (11:43) -- Skimbleshanks, the railway cat (4:53) -- Macavity, the mystery cat (8:24) -- Mr. Mistoffelees' (4:26) -- Memory (5:21) -- The journey to the heaviside layer (2:44) -- The ad-dressing of cats (4:19)

Produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Martin Levan, New York, October 1982

"This recording of 'Cats' contains most of the music of the Broadway production of the musical... There are some small alterations and cuts for recording purposes principally in the longer dance sections and the narrative poem 'The Pekes and the Pollicles.'"--Container insert

Program notes and lyrics on container insert

Performed by the Broadway cast, with orchestra conducted by René Weigert