TODD: Sing, my angel of music! Sing for me!
RUM TUM TUGGER: (punctually, to HERBIE) Hear the birdies cheeping, helps to keep it cheery, BENJAMIN BARKER, throw the PATTI LUPONE OUT!
Review of Stephen Sondheim:
“Here in this room, he calls me softly - somewhere inside, hiding... Somehow I know he's always with me, he the unseen genius!”
—The Cincinnati Enquirer
★★★★☆
Review of Jesus Christ Superstar:
“And we all say "Oh, well I never, was there ever A cat so clever as magical JELLICLE CAT"”
—San Francisco Chronicle
★★★★★
JELLICLE CATS: (whispering) And all the good you've done will soon get swept away.
GRUMBUSKIN: (to CATS) Let me do a few tricks, Some old and then some new tricks.
“If I could've been, I would've been. And that's show business. Sing you fools, but you've got it wrong. Enjoy your prayers because you haven't got long.” —The Right Honourable The Lord Lloyd-Webber
Review of Andrew Lloyd Webber:
“TULSA, listen to me — whatever you may believe, this man, this thing is not your father! Let her go, for God's sake let her go!”
—Democrat and Chronicle