"Gus: The Theatre Cat" is a poem by T. S. Eliot included in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Known as "The Theatre Cat" due to his career as an actor, Gus is an old and frail, yet revered, cat, who "suffers from palsy, which makes his paws shake." His coat is described as "shabby" and he is "no longer a terror to mice or to rats". Gus, whose full name is Asparagus, is also a character in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaption of the book, Cats. In the musical, the poem is used almost verbatim in the song "Gus: The Theatre Cat".
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| - "Gus: The Theatre Cat" is a poem by T. S. Eliot included in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Known as "The Theatre Cat" due to his career as an actor, Gus is an old and frail, yet revered, cat, who "suffers from palsy, which makes his paws shake." His coat is described as "shabby" and he is "no longer a terror to mice or to rats". Gus, whose full name is Asparagus, is also a character in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaption of the book, Cats. In the musical, the poem is used almost verbatim in the song "Gus: The Theatre Cat".
- Gus the Theatre Cat is the second musical number in act 2. Gus is elderly, frail and deaf, interrupting Jellylorum as she tells his story. Gus spins off into a reverie, which leads to the dream sequence "Growltiger's Last Stand." The music itself is a minor reworking of the early Lloyd Webber pop song "I Could Have Given You More" recorded by Petula Clark.
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| - "Gus: The Theatre Cat" is a poem by T. S. Eliot included in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Known as "The Theatre Cat" due to his career as an actor, Gus is an old and frail, yet revered, cat, who "suffers from palsy, which makes his paws shake." His coat is described as "shabby" and he is "no longer a terror to mice or to rats". Gus, whose full name is Asparagus, is also a character in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaption of the book, Cats. In the musical, the poem is used almost verbatim in the song "Gus: The Theatre Cat".
- Gus the Theatre Cat is the second musical number in act 2. Gus is elderly, frail and deaf, interrupting Jellylorum as she tells his story. Gus spins off into a reverie, which leads to the dream sequence "Growltiger's Last Stand." The music itself is a minor reworking of the early Lloyd Webber pop song "I Could Have Given You More" recorded by Petula Clark.
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