Question

Which of Eliot’s works was adapted into the musical Cats?

• A. "The Waste Land"
• B. "Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats"
• C. "Four Quartets"
• D. "Murder in the Cathedral"

Answer 1

Answer:

B. "Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats"

T.S. Eliot's 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats was adapted into the musical Cats. The musical's songs are based on Eliot's poems, set to music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. 

• Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

• A collection of light verse poems about cats, written by Nobel Prize-winning poet T.S. Eliot. Eliot originally wrote the poems for his godchildren, pretending to be Old Possum. 

• Cats

• A sung-through musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The musical premiered in London's West End in 1981 and on Broadway in 1982. In 2019, Tom Hooper adapted the musical into a film starring James Corden, Judi Dench, and others.