Gus the Theatre Cat-The Theatrelands

[ti:Gus the Theatre Cat] [ar:The Theatreland Chorus] [al:Cats (Hits from the Musical)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Gus the Theatre Cat - The Theatrelands [00:00.22]Written by：Lloyd Webber/Eliot [00:00.45]Gus is the cat at the theatre door [00:05.63] [00:06.45]His name as I ought to have told you before [00:12.39] [00:13.44]Is really asparagus but that's such a fuss [00:18.84] [00:19.35]To pronounce that we usually call him [00:24.50] [00:25.01]Just Gus [00:26.03] [00:27.19]His coat's very shabby [00:29.48] [00:30.32]He's thin as a rake [00:32.45] [00:33.39]And he suffers from palsy that makes his paw shake [00:39.04] [00:39.91]Yet he was in his youth quite the smartest of cats [00:45.50] [00:46.16]But no longer a terror to mice or to rats [00:52.05] [00:53.39]For he isn't the cat that he was in his prime [00:59.17]Though his name was quite famous he says in his time [01:04.97] [01:05.63]And whenever he joins his friends at their club [01:11.54]Which takes place at the back of the neighbouring pub [01:17.60] [01:18.54]He loves to regale them if someone else pays [01:23.98] [01:24.78]With anecdotes drawn from his palmiest days [01:30.31] [01:31.03]For he once was a star of the highest degree [01:36.30] [01:36.99]He has acted with Irving he's acted with tree [01:42.24] [01:43.19]And he likes to relate his success on the halls [01:48.55] [01:49.06]Where the gallery once gave him seven catcalls [01:55.03] [01:55.79]But his grandest creation as he loves to tell [02:01.86] [02:02.62]Was Firefrorefiddle the fiend of the fell [02:09.99] [02:17.70]I have played in my time every possible part [02:24.46] [02:25.66]And I used to know seventy speeches by heart [02:32.26] [02:33.48]I'd extemporize backchat [02:36.54] [02:37.49]I knew how to gag [02:40.36] [02:41.21]And I knew how to let the cat out of the bag [02:47.48] [02:49.75]I knew how to act with my back and my tail [02:55.25] [02:56.48]With an hour of rehearsal [02:59.79]I never could fail [03:02.22] [03:03.15]I'd a voice that would soften the hardest of hearts [03:08.87] [03:09.90]Whether I took the lead or in character parts [03:16.61] [03:17.89]I have sat by the bedside of poor little Nell [03:23.00] [03:24.12]When the curfew was rung then I swung on the bell [03:29.12] [03:30.24]In the pantomime season I never fell flat [03:35.25] [03:36.21]And I once understudied dick Whittington's cat [03:41.55] [03:42.82]But my grandest creation [03:45.74] [03:46.84]As history will tell [03:49.08] [03:50.24]Was Firefrorefiddle the fiend of the fell [03:56.97] [04:04.96]Then if someone will give him a toothful of gin [04:09.25] [04:09.80]He will tell how he once played a part in East Lynne [04:14.61]At a Shakespeare performance he once walked on pat [04:19.48]When some actor suggested the need for a cat [04:24.44] [04:25.01]And I say now these kittens [04:27.34] [04:28.03]They do not get trained [04:29.83] [04:30.53]As we did in the days when Victoria reigned [04:35.51] [04:36.35]They never get drilled in a regular troupe [04:41.20] [04:41.98]And they think they are smart [04:44.04] [04:44.85]Just to jump through a hoop [04:46.96] [04:48.48]And he says as he scratches himself with his claws [04:53.51] [04:54.08]Well the theatre is certainly not what it was [04:59.52] [05:00.74]These modern productions are all very well [05:06.12] [05:07.12]But there's nothing to equal from what I hear tell [05:13.06] [05:13.98]That moment of mystery when I made history [05:21.98] [05:23.02]As Firefrorefiddle the fiend of the fell