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The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra performs songs by George Gershwin. Michael Tilson Thomas is the conductor.
French ballerina Zizi Jeanmaire and her husband, choreographer Roland Petit, are featured in a documentary film.
At long last, the world's greatest musical theater blockbuster makes its world television premiere. Over 17 years, "Cats" became the longest running musical in Broadway history, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's sensational interpretation of T. S. Eliot's OLD POSSUM'S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS has gone on to charm audiences around the globe. Now lavishly filmed for television with a specially augmented 76-piece orchestra, its many musical highlights include Elaine Paige returning to the role of Grizabella, the faded "glamour cat" who sings the showstopping "Memory." Also featured are Sir John Mills as Gus and Broadway cast original Ken Page as Old Deuteronomy.
Glenn Close, Antonio Banderas, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Donny Osmond, Sarah Brightman, Elaine Paige, and Michael Ball are among the stars gathered at London's Royal Albert Hall to pay tribute to the hit-making composer of such international musical blockbusters as "Jesus Christ Superstar," "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," "Evita," "Cats," "The Phantom of the Opera," and "Sunset Boulevard." The many highlights include Banderas reprising his big-screen performance of "Oh What a Circus" from "Evita," Close's thrilling rendition of "As If We Never Said Good-bye" from "Sunset Boulevard," and Te Kanawa's debut of a new song from Lloyd Webber's much anticipated sequel to "Phantom."
