Cats Musical London Memory. Daylight see the dew on a sunflower and a rose that is fading roses wither away like the sunflower, i yearn to turn my face to the dawn i am waiting for the day memory turn your face to the moonlight let your memory lead you open up, enter in if you find there the meaning of what happiness is then a new life will begin memory all alone in the moonlight i can smile at the old days i was. Cats first opened in london’s west end in 1981 and on broadway in 1982.
The original london production ran for 21 years and is one of the most successful and well loved shows in west end history, featuring hits such as 'macavity: The magnificent musical score includes the one of the most treasured songs in musical theatre —‘memory’, which has been recorded by over 150 artists from barbra streisand and johnny mathis to liberace and barry manilow. Eliot.it tells the story of a tribe of cats called the jellicles and the night they make the jellicle choice, deciding which cat will ascend to the heaviside layer and come back to a new life.
Daylight see the dew on a sunflower and a rose that is fading roses wither away like the sunflower, i yearn to turn my face to the dawn i am waiting for the day memory turn your face to the moonlight let your memory lead you open up, enter in if you find there the meaning of what happiness is then a new life will begin memory all alone in the moonlight i can smile at the old days i was.
The mystery cat', 'jellicle song for jellicle cats' and the renowned 'memory'. It was written for the 1981 musical cats, where it is sung primarily by the character grizabella as a melancholic remembrance of her glamorous past and as a plea for acceptance. This shot is from 1998 at the adelphi theatre in london. The tune so gripped me, i dived out of the car and ran towards the house to tape the music.
