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

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

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