Before "Cats" had its 1981 West End premiere, it had been regarded with quite a lot of scepticism. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber working on his own, setting a series of children's poems about kitty cats published decades earlier by T. S. Eliot for a bookless show staged by a Shakespearean director, Trevor Nunn. But producer Cameron Mackintosh believed in Cats the musical, and its opulent effects and dancing felines captivated everyone that was to watch it. Of course Broadway producers sat up and took notice. It was not long before the Cats Broadway Musical was to arrive there !.