Gus: The Theatre Cat-Original Cast

[ly:T. S. Eliot] [mu:] [ma:] [pu:] [00:00.165]gus: the theatre cat - andrew lloyd weber [00:01.672]作词：t. s. eliot [00:02.983] [00:06.347]gus is the cat at the theatre door [00:12.724]his name as i ought to have told you before [00:19.152]is really asparagus but that's such a fuss [00:25.747]to pronounce that we usually call him [00:31.361]just gus [00:33.825]his coat's very shabby [00:37.191]he's thin as a rake [00:40.104]and he suffers from palsy that makes his paw shake [00:46.377]yet he was in his youth quite the smartest of cats [00:52.557]but no longer a terror to mice or to rats [00:59.989]for he isn't the cat [01:03.202]that he was in his prime [01:06.417]though his name was quite famous [01:10.033]he says in his time [01:13.397]and whenever he joins his friends at their club [01:19.585]which takes place at the back of the neighbouring pub [01:26.473]he loves to regale them if someone else pays [01:33.148]with anecdotes drawn from his palmiest days [01:39.327]for he once was a star of the highest degree [01:45.254]he has acted with irving he's acted with tree [01:51.784]and he likes to relate his success on the halls [01:57.596]where the gallery once gave him seven catcalls [02:04.992]but his grandest creation as he loves to tell [02:12.371]was firefrorefiddle [02:16.539]the fiend of the fell [02:27.013]i have played in my time [02:31.538]every possible part [02:35.205]and i used to know seventy speeches by heart [02:43.153]i'd extemporize backchat [02:47.064]i knew how to gag [02:50.580]and i knew [02:51.734]how to let the cat out of the bag [02:58.157]i knew how to act with my back and my tail [03:05.215]with an hour of rehearsal [03:08.580]i never could fail [03:11.899]i'd a voice that would soften the hardest of hearts [03:18.934]whether i took the lead or in character parts [03:26.621]i have sat by the bedside of poor little nell [03:33.047]when the curfew was rung [03:35.762]then i swung on the bell [03:39.475]in the pantomime season i never fell flat [03:45.646]and i once understudied dick whittington's cat [03:52.427]but my grandest creation [03:56.596]as history will tell [04:00.608]was firefrorefiddle the fiend of the fell [04:15.916]then if someone will give him a toothful of gin [04:20.858]he will tell how he once played a part [04:24.369]in east lynne [04:25.773]at a shakespeare performance he once walked on pat [04:30.747]when some actor suggested the need for a cat [04:36.298]and i say now these kittens [04:39.816]they do not get trained [04:42.477]as we did in the days when victoria reigned [04:48.868]they never get drilled in a regular troupe [04:54.308]and they think they are smart [04:57.117]just to jump through a hoop [05:00.683]and he says as he scratches himself with his claws [05:06.672]well the theatre is certainly not what it was [05:12.867]these modern productions are all very well [05:19.346]but there's nothing to equal from what i hear tell [05:26.818]that moment of mystery when i made history [05:36.614]as firefrorefiddle [05:41.641]the fiend of the fell [05:45.306] [05:58.049]i once crossed the stage on a telegraph wire [06:04.889]to rescue a child when a house was on fire [06:11.414]and i think that i still can much better than most [06:17.891]produce blood-curdling noises to bring on the ghost [06:25.478]and i once played growltiger [06:29.406]could do it again [06:32.960]could do it again [06:37.330]could do it again