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The hit musical 'Cats' has a slight makeover for its comeback performances in December in London. One of the traditional songs will now a rap. The musical's writer, Andrew Lloyd Webber, said he the musical needed to be to appeal to a new generation of theatre-goers. Lloyd Webber his musical on a famous book called "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" by the famous British writer T. S. Eliot. It the story of a group of cats called the Jellicles, who have to which cat gets to come back to life after death. 'Cats' first in London's West End in 1981 and on Broadway in New York in 1982. It numerous awards and ran for twenty-one years in the English capital.

The rap will be by the Rum Tum Tugger character, who is a rebellious street cat. Lloyd Webber said the original poem that the cat sings, in the 1930s, has a strong rap rhythm. He joked that T.S. Eliot may have the world's first rapper, saying: "I've come to the conclusion…that maybe Eliot was the inventor of rap." He added: "I think Rum Tum Tugger is to have to become a street cat for today and he to do hip-hop." The show's producer, Sir Trevor Nunn, the decision to the rap. He said: "There is a whole generation of kids who haven't 'Cats' or discovered it. And there certainly elements of the show that can be in very contemporary terms."

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