Cats 1998 Cast Macavity

Jellicle cats join for a jellicle ball where they rejoice with their leader old deuteronomy.

Cats 1998 cast macavity. He is a malevolent criminal mastermind whose wicked deeds strike fear in the jellicles. All credits to andrew lloyd webber. He possesses mystical powers and is the antagonist of the musical. Both ken page old deuteronomy and elaine paige grizabella can be seen in the opening number jellicle ball before they appear as their main characters.

His looming presence and attempts to terrorise the tribe particularly demeter are major subplots in the musical. David mallet served as the director of this production. Macavity is a featured character and the main antagonist of cats. Cats is a 1998 direct to video musical film based on the 1981 stage musical cats by andrew lloyd webber itself based on old possum s book of practical cats 1939 by t.

Macavity the mystery cat also called the hidden paw is a fictional character in t. The mystery cat from the 1998 film version cats the musical. Enjoy xd this is probably my favourite song in the entire musical apart from rum tum tugger. Additional clapper loader as michael beresford jones.

It features demeter and bombalurina warning the jellicles about the titular villainous cat. The mystery cat is a song from the stage musical cats. Also john partridge rum tum tugger and susie mckenna jennyanydots appear prior to their main characters numbers. One cat will be chosen to go to the heavyside layer and be reborn.

Directed by david mallet. Eliot lloyd webber oversaw orchestration for the film and called on gillian lynne the show s original choreographer to train the cast for the film. Macavity s a ginger cat he s very tall and thin you would know him if you saw him for his eyes are sunken in his brow is deeply lined in thought his head is highly domed. Eliot s 1939 poetry book old possum s book of practical cats he also appears in the andrew lloyd webber 1981 musical cats which is based on eliot s book macavity is a master criminal.

With elaine paige john mills ken page rosemarie ford. In the 2019 film adaptation only bombalurina sings the song with macavity himself joining her later. Other appearances the original london cast version was featured in the soundtrack album of the show the original broadway cast version. I do not own anything.