Gosh even with the 1980s costumes I can still pick out so many characters I know and love ❤

I like that Harry Groener and Terrence Mann were together during the choir and the last part :) I love them both with all my heart. I so wish they have had a career in movies, that way I could watch them, but most of all because they are incredibly talented underrated actors and deserved much better.

Gorgeous.

This is the cast that ALW should have professionally filmed and released on video.

What the hell is this choreography she's doing at the start? Mr. Bennett would be turning over in his grave if he saw this.

Mungojerrie doesn’t even look like a cat 😹

Bonnie Langeford was only seventeen when she did CATS, still just a kid really.

Best version

My first B'way show when I graduated 6th grade. Loved it!

Came here after reading a review that described this performance as half-hearted. Hmm, okay.......

Pretty good. No backbends at the end (double pirouettes down the line usually followed up with backbends); not a fan of long hair on Cassie (personal preference; makes Cassie look too young/unsophisticated); tempos are crazy; still a huge fan of Laurie Gamache's attack at the end.

I love that even though it's changed there's still bits of the old choreography, and the iconic Rumple jumping into Mungo's arms on his hip is still the same. Also there's something to say about the movie using this version of the music rather than the version most people are used to (this whole thing is in 4/4 while the version from at least 83 on ward has parts that are in 7/8). I think that they could have made it work in the movie but something wasn't communicated properly and this song was sorta killed in the movie. Sad because I quite enjoy this recording

40 years ago! Thats 40 years ago!!!

This is actually from 1982? I am just blown away!

It's incredible that this even exists. It's incredible that it looks and sounds as good as it does. It's incredible it's made it to the internet. And most incredibly of all is the fact that after 40 years, the costuming and choreography are almost exactly the same. Incredible stuff

ANNIE SPADERO 😺 Caroline In The City(tv-telly$eries)😊

This is different from the 1998 movie version but I love both versions!!

02:27

I got to watch the entire original Broadway show at the New York Public Library's archives. It was awesome finally putting faces to the voices I'd heard all these years. :D

A.L.W Ms. Lowe had to Correspond with him over the Phone, as We didn't have any Videos to go By.

Yeah it has to Start with Demeter, this Number Needs Both of them. Oh We had Started the Rehearsals For Ms. Lowes Production When they did this, The First Number was The Jellicle Ball.

Aw, The Times when we didn't Have those Yak hair wigs, Even My Production Directed and Choreographed By Ms. Guynema Lowe went without. However Even though Femi Taylor is Bombalurina Here, Her True Jellicle is Exotica, The Exotic Jellicle.

Aunt Viv 5:38

God blessed them with a gift! May they continue to use that gift to glorify the Lord Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit and to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to everyone everywhere!! 💕

I can not be the only one who gets weird vibes from M&R in both versions, like maybe they like each other a bit more than any brother and sister should....

Watching this the first time and you wouldn't guess they where actual dancers till around the 2 minute mark. Then it gets good 😅😪

Omg please tell me there is the whole video of the show somewhere? I saw the revival on Broadway and in london and she was bloody amazing!!

Around time they came to Seattle and mom took us I was 16. Meant nothing to me at that age yet infinitely more now, and glad for mom and the memories of that show. Now my City is not even survivable by a cat may she rest like a cat.

i get all sorts of feels and love whenever i watch this. i just love the slower and jazzy version of the song. <3

The lovely Bonnie Langford! A great talent in British Theatre and TV - she was even in the film of Bugsy Malone. She was totally made for the original production of CATS. Think of the talent in that first cast - Bonnie, Wayne Sleep, Sarah Brightman, Brian Blessed, Paul Nicholas... the list goes on. The original London production was the only place to see CATS. It has become so ‘Disneyfied’ over the years people think the original costumes are too strange. I love how abstract they used to look before the whiskers and tons of greasepaint.

How on EARTH did you find this?!

Just found this - Soooo much better than the later version which simply does not flow! ALW what did you do to it?

Where on EARTH did you find this footage? Thank you so much!

You can hear Betty Buckley singing over everyone lol

Lucky enough to have caught it on Broadway........there was a rather peculiar " erotic number" starring Ann Reinking.....Called The Dream Barre, being rather young ..... i was....uhm, taken aback...? Later when i saw All that Jazz, i thought, uhmmmm, must have been a dry run for the Air-otica number in the movie...... Anybody remember that number or have any footage of it? It was definitely " ow here goes the matinee crowd" material.....even if i did see it on a matinee!

Hello! Do you have a clean copy of this commercial? This version is someone filming their tv and was needing a clean copy for an Ann Reinking tribute. Nicole Fosse is trying to find it for me but maybe you can help me too. text me at 310 eight71 six66three.

On the left @4:30 -- I think that's Janet Hubert, aka "Original Aunt Viv"

I remember watching this programme when it aired! I had just turned 18 at the time, and watching this little segment of CATS was the beginning of my love affair with this amazing musical. I immediately went out and bought the double cassette tape of the Original London Cast, and until about 2000 played it to bits everywhere, especially in the car. When it died I bought the double CD and now it resides on the USB stick I keep in the car. What I love about the original cast is that they peformed this song exactly how they sang it on stage - sheer professionalism.

Is it just me or is the choreo exactly the same? Also, it’s so satisfying when they bob their heads while saying “statistical cats” glad it was part of the original lol

Rumpelteazer is the voice actor of betty boop

i like this version but i think the choreography was a little to upbeat for this more jazzy version of this song

its funny for me because i am both a musicals nerd and a doctor who nerd, so those two sides of me are constantly fighting over whether i like bonnie or not

Would you believe, circa 1984 both my dear parents would cheer for the silly Spit the Dog, and jeer this lovely, beautiful "cat", Bonnie Langford? Well, I'm glad tastes aren't always inherited.

Is that Ann? I don’t think it is? That isn’t her famous blue dress. Does anyone have the Ann Reinking video?

The original Aunt Viv is here.

I can not even imagine how difficult it must be to sing so well while moving like that.

I love both versions but I find this old version better, but again: I like both. :)

The Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer routine has changed quite a bit from the original cast. So has the tune they sing. It's much more athletic than it was originally and the tune is more robust.

When I first listened to the new movie soundtrack, I was confused at the new arrangements, but then I realize that they were following the original “jazz” version, not the more popular “vaudevillian” version.

no i’m not crying, you are