Opening of Cats Musical

Date: May 11, 1981 • Location: London, United Kingdom

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats (performers pictured), opened at the New London Theatre.

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 21 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass.