CATS ON ICE Journal

This is a record of the WONDERFUL experience my family had during the summer of 2005 when we all participated in CATS ON ICE!

Saturday, July 23, 2005

What we learned and what we bought about CATS

The purpose of this post is to share all the things we listened to, watched, bought, played on piano, and read about CATS THE MUSICAL.


Of course, we had to buy some songbooks to go with the musical to play on the piano! So Mommy bought us CATS - Easy Piano Picture Book. Now Rebekah and Joel and Mommy play songs from CATS on the piano daily! Our favorite song is probably the one about Mr. Mistofelees.

If you don't know this already, this musical is based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, by T.S. Eliot. Kelli Knight told us about the book, so we ordered it on Amazon. Soon we ordered the accompanying book on tape and listened to British voices reading us the poems. Rebekah has memorized every poem in the book!
All the poems are almost duplicated exactly word for word in this musical play by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Dillon Kelley had THE BOOK OF THE MUSICAL, so we ordered that too. It included photos from the stage show and also the songs and poems as they were performed in the musical.
We also have watched the video and DVD that includes "The Making of CATS." We have memorized every song and movement!

We recommend ordering any of the items we've suggested on Amazon.com.

We already owned a record of the original Broadway show. That too, is a must have!

All we are missing are CATS t-shirts!

1 Comments:

  • At 9:02 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    My grandson, Dillon Kelley, who played Mccavity, had a birthday during the rehearsals of Cats on Ice in June. Knowing I couldn't be there to see the show and not knowing what to get him for his birthday, I went online to find Cats items. I too bought the Old Possum book, a DVD and book of the musical, and my special find was a Cats t-shirt I found on Ebay in his size. He loved them all. Yay!!

    Again, not knowing if he'd appreciate being sent flowers before the performance, I found online Cookies by Design in Colorado Springs and had cookie bouquet sent to him on Saturday. It had twelve cookies in it of differents cats and I am sure he liked that as well. My hat's off to Cookies By Design for helping me to make this experience more meaningful for him.

    Congratulations to all of you who worked so hard all summer long for the wonderful performances!! There's a proud Granny in Dallas, TX who can't wait to see the video!

    Dillon Kelley's Granny,
    Mera

     

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