I saw 'Cats' in 1995 in Sydney at Her Majesty's Theatre. Luckily for 
me, my uncle, Peter Carroll, was one of the performers and played the 
roles of Bustopher Jones, Gus the theatre cat and Growltiger. I was 
absolutely blown away by the show and we got to go backstage after 
where we saw some costumes and met Old Deuteronomy (Keith Stubley) 
and saw the Rum Tum Tugger ( Eric Clausell)! Ever since then it has 
been my all time favourite musical. No one seems to mention the 95 
Australian/Asian Tour of Cats much but it had a huge impact on me.  
The choreography had been re-written from the old version (like the 
video) and was faster and slicker. The costumes were beautiful. It 
was a turning point in my life and now I want to go into musical 
theatre as a career. The best characters in the production I saw were 
Mungojerri and Rumpelteazer (Troy Woodcroft and Deanne Burns) and 
Bombalurina (Charmaine Clements). And now I'm seeing Cats again in a 
few weeks in 2000!

by Jessica