Gus the Theatre Cat-The Theatreland Chorus

[ti:Gus the Theatre Cat] [ar:The Theatreland Chorus] [al:Cats (Hits from the Musical)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.10]Gus the Theatre Cat - The Theatreland Chorus [00:00.15]Written by：Lloyd Webber/Eliot [00:00.43]Gus is the cat at the theatre door [00:05.62] [00:06.44]His name as I ought to have told you before [00:12.37] [00:13.42]Is really asparagus but that's such a fuss [00:18.83] [00:19.33]To pronounce that we usually call him [00:24.49] [00:25.00]Just Gus [00:26.02] [00:27.18]His coat's very shabby [00:29.47] [00:30.31]He's thin as a rake [00:32.44] [00:33.37]And he suffers from palsy that makes his paw shake [00:39.03] [00:39.90]Yet he was in his youth quite the smartest of cats [00:45.49] [00:46.15]But no longer a terror to mice or to rats [00:52.04] [00:53.37]For he isn't the cat that he was in his prime [00:59.16]Though his name was quite famous he says in his time [01:04.95] [01:05.62]And whenever he joins his friends at their club [01:11.52]Which takes place at the back of the neighbouring pub [01:17.59] [01:18.52]He loves to regale them if someone else pays [01:23.96] [01:24.76]With anecdotes drawn from his palmiest days [01:30.29] [01:31.01]For he once was a star of the highest degree [01:36.28] [01:36.98]He has acted with Irving he's acted with tree [01:42.23] [01:43.18]And he likes to relate his success on the halls [01:48.54] [01:49.05]Where the gallery once gave him seven catcalls [01:55.01] [01:55.77]But his grandest creation as he loves to tell [02:01.85] [02:02.60]Was Firefrorefiddle the fiend of the fell [02:09.98] [02:17.68]I have played in my time every possible part [02:24.45] [02:25.64]And I used to know seventy speeches by heart [02:32.25] [02:33.47]I'd extemporize backchat [02:36.53] [02:37.48]I knew how to gag [02:40.34] [02:41.20]And I knew how to let the cat out of the bag [02:47.47] [02:49.73]I knew how to act with my back and my tail [02:55.23] [02:56.47]With an hour of rehearsal [02:59.78]I never could fail [03:02.21] [03:03.14]I'd a voice that would soften the hardest of hearts [03:08.86] [03:09.89]Whether I took the lead or in character parts [03:16.59] [03:17.88]I have sat by the bedside of poor little Nell [03:22.99] [03:24.10]When the curfew was rung then I swung on the bell [03:29.11] [03:30.22]In the pantomime season I never fell flat [03:35.24] [03:36.20]And I once understudied dick Whittington's cat [03:41.53] [03:42.81]But my grandest creation [03:45.73] [03:46.83]As history will tell [03:49.06] [03:50.23]Was Firefrorefiddle the fiend of the fell [03:56.96] [04:04.94]Then if someone will give him a toothful of gin [04:09.24] [04:09.78]He will tell how he once played a part in East Lynne [04:14.60]At a Shakespeare performance he once walked on pat [04:19.47]When some actor suggested the need for a cat [04:24.42] [04:24.99]And I say now these kittens [04:27.32] [04:28.02]They do not get trained [04:29.82] [04:30.52]As we did in the days when Victoria reigned [04:35.50] [04:36.34]They never get drilled in a regular troupe [04:41.19] [04:41.97]And they think they are smart [04:44.03] [04:44.83]Just to jump through a hoop [04:46.95] [04:48.47]And he says as he scratches himself with his claws [04:53.50] [04:54.07]Well the theatre is certainly not what it was [04:59.51] [05:00.73]These modern productions are all very well [05:06.10] [05:07.11]But there's nothing to equal from what I hear tell [05:13.04] [05:13.96]That moment of mystery when I made history [05:21.97] [05:23.00]As Firefrorefiddle the fiend of the fell