Gus: The Theatre Cat-Original Broadway Cast

[ti:Gus The Theatre Cat] [ar:Original Broadway Cast] [al:Cats CD2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Gus: The Theatre Cat - Original Broadway Cast [00:01.44]Gus is the cat at the theatre door [00:06.76]His name as I ought to have told you before [00:13.88]Is really Asparagus and that's such a fuss to pronounce [00:21.05]That we usually call him just Gus [00:25.99] [00:26.56]His coat's very shabby he's thin as a rake [00:32.93]And he suffers from palsy that makes his paw shake [00:39.28]Yet he was in his youth quite the smartest of cats [00:46.12]But no longer a terror to mice or to rats [00:53.06]For he isn't the cat that he was in his prime [00:59.62]Though his name was quite famous he says in his time [01:06.44]And whenever he joins his friends at their club [01:12.66](Which takes place at the back of the neighboring pub) [01:19.54]He loves to regale them if someone else pays [01:26.34]With anecdotes drawn from his palmiest days [01:33.04]For he once was a star of the highest degree [01:39.06]He has acted with Irving he's acted with Tree [01:46.08]And he likes to relate his success on the halls [01:52.76]Where the gallery once gave him seven cat calls [01:59.95] [02:00.75]But his greatest creation as he loves to tell [02:08.03] [02:08.63]Is Firefrorefiddle the Fiend of the Fell [02:18.12] [02:23.60]I have played in my time every possible part [02:29.01] [02:30.73]And I used to know seventy speeches by heart [02:36.91] [02:37.42]I'd extemporize backchat I knew how to gag [02:44.37]And I knew how to let the cat out of the bag [02:50.76] [02:51.33]I knew how to act with my back and my tail [02:58.11]With an hour of rehearsal I never could fail [03:04.58]I'd a voice that would soften the hardest of hearts [03:11.45]Whether I took the lead or in character parts [03:19.01]I have sat by the bedside of poor little Nell [03:24.97] [03:25.51]When the curfew was rung then I swung on the bell [03:31.36] [03:32.93]In the pantomime season I never fell flat [03:38.31]And I once understudied Dick Whittington's cat [03:45.24]But my greatest creation as history will tell [03:52.37]Was Firefrorefiddle the Fiend of the Fell [04:01.21] [04:07.47]Then if someone will give him a toothful of gin [04:12.47]He will tell how he once played a part in East Lynne [04:16.88]At a Shakespeare performance he once walked on pat [04:21.47]When some actor suggested the need for a cat [04:26.43] [04:27.04]And I say now these kittens they do not get trained [04:33.15]As we did in the days when Victoria reigned [04:39.80]They never get drilled in a regular troupe [04:45.57]And they think they are smart just to jump through a hoop [04:52.58]And he says as he scratches himself with his claws [04:59.09]Well the theatre is certainly not what it was [05:05.89]These modern productions are all very well [05:12.14]But there's nothing to equal from what I hear tell [05:19.78]That moment of mystery when I made history [05:28.21] [05:28.92]As Firefrorefiddle the Fiend of the Fell [05:39.12] [05:46.45]I once crossed the stage on a telephone wire [05:53.94]To rescue a child when a house was on fire [06:00.13]And I think that I still can much better than most [06:07.16]Produce blood curdling noises to bring on the ghost [06:14.19]And I once played Growltiger [06:18.70]Could do it again could do it again [06:24.83]Could do it again