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The musical 'Cats' has had a for its comeback in London in December. One of the songs will be a rap. The musical's , Andrew Lloyd Webber, wants the musical to be updated to appeal to a new of theatre-. 'Cats' is based on a famous called "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" by the famous British writer T. S. Eliot. It is about a of cats who must decide which cat gets to come back to . 'Cats' first opened in London in 1981 and in New York in 1982. It won many and ran for twenty-one years in the English capital.

The Rum Tum Tugger will perform the rap. He is a street cat. Lloyd Webber said: "I think Rum Tum Tugger is going to have to become a cat for today and he has to do hip-hop." He added that the 1930s that the cat sings has a strong rap . He joked that T.S. Eliot was the world's rapper, saying: "I've come to the …that maybe Eliot was the inventor of rap." The show's said the rap was for, "a whole generation of who haven't seen 'Cats'". He said parts of the musical could "be reinvigorated in very contemporary ".

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