The great big Cats (1983) cat counter

In april of 2021 I asked myself a question while I was driving home from something or another: "how many times in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats do they say the word cat?" I got home, queued up the original broadway cast album on Spotify and got out an app we used at work to count customers. This list may not actually be entirely accurate, but it is accurate to the best of my ability. Also, this is only covering the album version of the original broadway Cats, not the actual full show or the movie from a few years ago.

• Overture: 0 cats, but a lot of synths
• (prologue) Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats: 44
• The naming of cats: 9 (53)
• The invitation to the Jellicle ball: 9 (62)
• The old Gumbie Cat: 7 (69) (nice)
• The Rum Tum Tugger: 5 (74)
• Grizabella: the Glamour cat: 5 (79)
• Bustopher Jones: 4 (83)
• Mungojeree and Rumpelteazer: 4 (87)
• Old Deuteronomy: 1 (88)
• The Jellicle ball: 17 (105)
• Grizabella/Memory medley: 0 (105)

• The moments of happiness: 0 (105) wow, again?
• Gus: the theater cat: 7 (112) yes, cat-call counts
• Growltiger/Billy McCaw: 5 (117) (no, none of the aria has the word cat in it, I checked.)
  (Oh that was a play! A cat play! And racist!)
  
• Skimbleshanks the railway cat: 11 (128)
• Macavity: the mystery cat: 5 (133)
• Mr. Mistoffelees: 16 (149)
• Memory: 1 (150)
• The journey to the heavy side layer: 0 (150)
• The ad-dressing of cats: 12 (162)

TOTAL CATS: 162

Note to self: next time, count the word “Jellicle”

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