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{{work|wppage=Cats (musical)}}{{cleanup|This page mixes trope entries for the stage musical and the video version; the two productions should be split into separate pages.}}
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{{quote|''There's a man over there with a look of surprise.''
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''Do I actually see with my own very eyes,''
''A man who's not heard of a jellicle cat?''
''What's a jellicle cat? '''What's a jellicle cat'''?''
|From the opening number, "Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats."}}
[[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]'s ''other'' [[The Phantom of the Opera|most famous musical]]. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|It's a show about
A video version of the stage musical was released in 1998. After decades in [[Development Hell]], a [[Cats (2019 film)|film version]] with an [[All-Star Cast]] ([[Judi Dench]], [[Idris Elba]], [[Taylor Swift]], [[Ian McKellen]] and more) finally reached theaters in 2019.
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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: "What's a jellicle cat", indeed. Mr. Eliot's poems make perfectly and explicitly clear what a jellicle cat is: it is, very specifically, ''a small black-and-white cat''. No more, no less, and nothing else.
** A whole stage of only black-and-white cats wouldn't be much to look at (or it might... I mean, it's people dressed head to toe as cats). Not that that whole book of poems is about only black-and-white cats. To be fair, there are quite a few black and white cats in the show.
* [[Added Alliterative Appeal]]: "Firefrorefiddle, the Fiend of the Fell".
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: The Cats don't really like Grizabella.
* [[All There in the Script]]: Anything pertaining to Griddlebone, save her few lines in Macavity's [[Villain Song]].
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* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Macavity has broken every human law, disappears from every crime scene, and the [[Villain Song]] takes place directly after he's kidnapped the tribe leader. Oh, and he cheats at cards.
* [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]]: [[It Was His Sled|Grizabella]].
* [[Big Eater]]: Bustopher Jones, "a twenty-five pounder" who's "putting on weight every day". An entire section of his song is him listing all the pubs and restaurants he goes to in a day.
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: The Jellicles, after their opening number, notice the audience's presence and play to them for most of the rest of the performance.
* [[Brian Blessed]]: The original actor for Bustopher Jones, Gus and Growltiger.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Pouncival and Tumblebrutus in the video, though the former more than the latter.
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{{quote|''He is extremely tall and thin, his forehead domes out in a white curve, and his two eyes are deeply sunken in this head. He is clean-shaven, pale, and ascetic-looking, retaining something of the professor in his features. His shoulders are rounded from much study, and his face protrudes forward, and is forever slowly oscillating from side to side in a curiously reptilian fashion.''}}
* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: The Rum-Tum-Tugger's butt-shake apparently has a hypnotic effect on female cats, considering that he usually has a gaggle of them staring at it.
** Not to mention the fascination with Bombalurina and Demeter's crotches the cameraman suddenly has in the video when they're singing [[Villain Song|"Macavity"]].
** Don't you mean whenever Bombalurina is within view and facing away from the camera.
* [[Epic Song]]: "Memory", also [[The Eleven O'Clock Number]].
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* [[Formally-Named Pet]]: The magical Mr. Mistoffelees (the only one of all the cats in the musical to be named that way).
* [[Funny Background Event]]: Watch closely and you see some pretty surprising stuff...
* [[Furry Fandom]]: What would expect from a show about dancing,
* [["I Am" Song]]: Mainly, it's a show of You Are Songs.
* [[The Ingenue]]: Jemima, the only other cat besides Victoria
* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]/[[Princess in Rags]]/[[White Dwarf Starlet]]: All three apply to Grizabella.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Macavity has "broken every human law", terrorized the Jellicles, and kidnapped Old Deuteronomy. He never pays for any of his crimes in the course of the musical, and his theme song suggests that he never has.
** Though Demeter and Bombalurina seem to use the Macavity song as a warning to the younger kittens, and Demeter pretty much kicks his ass when he shows up {{spoiler|disguised as Old Deuteronomy}} (well, initially, anyway).
* [[Karmic Death]]: Growltiger.
* [[Les Yay]]:
* [[List Song]]: An entire section of Bustopher Jones' song is a list of all the pubs and restaurants he goes to in a single day.
* [[Long Title]]: "Of The Awefull Battle of The Pekes and the Pollicles, Together With Some Account of Participation of the Pugs and the Poms and the Intervention of the Great Rumpuscat".
* [[Meaningful Name]]: The main point of the opening poem. The name is secret though....
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* [[Melancholy Moon]]: Just turn your face to the moon, Grizabella...
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The rock'n'rollin' "The Rum Tum Tugger" is followed by the somber "Grizabella: The Glamour Cat", and that is followed by the peppy "Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town".
** In fact, the musical score [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs a lampshade]] on this fact at the opening of "Bustopher Jones" with notes about how to play the piece: "A little
** Another example lies with "Gus: The Theatre Cat". After the extremely sad ending to the song, the music immediately changes to the happy, fun "Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat".
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Rum Tum Tugger is quite the lady's cat.
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* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: Bustopher Jones, Gus and Macavity.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Doubly present in the "The Pekes and the Pollicles" segment. First, the Rumpus Cat is the only one animal not barking insanely at all the others. Secondly, Munkustrap, being the narrator, and Deuteronomy, who is listening to the story, are the only cats who aren't dressed up in an absolutely ridiculous getup ON TOP of the the cat costumes.
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: In the video, Demeter's accent when she says
** Rumpleteazer's voice as a chorus cat and in the introduction completely drops the cockney accent she bears in her own song. This aided people thinking she was dubbed, though her vocal credit was only for dubbed giggles.
* [[Priceless Ming Vase]]: Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer brag in their song about how they broke one of these (and probably others like it).
* [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]/[[Those Two Guys]]/[[Harmless Villain]]: Mungojerie and Rumpelteazer, who sure don't act like devoted servants of Macavity.
* [[Show Within a Show]]: "The Pekes and the Pollicles" and "Gus: The Theatre Cat".
* [[Stairway to Heaven]]: Or, more precisely, a ''tire'' to heaven. Other versions have their own version, including a
* [[Villain Song]]: "Mungojerie and Rumpelteazer". Subverted for the reasons above.
* [["The Villain Sucks" Song]]: "Macavity: The Mystery Cat". It would be a [[Villain Song]] if he himself had sung it.
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** Considering the first person in that role was [[Sarah Brightman]], the bar for big eyes must have been set pretty high afterward.
* [[Woman in White]]: Victoria the kitten, the first cat to accept Grizabella.
* [[Your Tomcat Is Pregnant]]: ''Very'' strongly implied of Mr. Mistoffolees:
{{quote|''And not long ago this phenomenal eat
''Produced seven kittens right out of a hat!}}
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[[Category:Theatre of the 1980s]]
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