PRESS RELEASE: October 29, 2007  – The Willows Theatre Company is proud to conclude its 2007 season with the Tony award-winning musical Cats. Based on the beloved collection of children’s poems “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” by T.S. Eliot, set to music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cats opened on Broadway in 1982 and ran for 7,484 performances, becoming the longest-running Broadway musical of all time. The show, originally set in an oversized garbage dump at an all-night cat bacchanalia, has been reconceived as a reunion of former students of a beloved teacher at an unusual private academy – the Jellicle School of Feline Divinity. The cast of over 40 singers and dancers of all ages bring to life such cat characters as The Old Gumbie Cat, Rum Tum Tugger, Macavity the Mystery Cat, and others over the course of the evening. Direction and musical direction is by Andrew Holtz, with musical staging by John Butterfield and Daniel Uroff. <more>