Lamp post prop from the musical <i>Cats</i>
date: label: Date made
content: 1982-2000
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This lamp post prop was used in the original Broadway production of <i>Cats</i>. The lamp post was part of the set design in the train station scene. The lamp post is made of metal painted brown, with a brown metal housing made of steel sheets with cut-out windows and topped with a shade of fluted gray canvas made to imitate silk. The post is wrapped with a spiral of rope and black rubber-covered electrical wiring ending at the lamp housing.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Cats</i> broke Broadway records with its run of 7,485 performances from 1982 until 2000 at New York’s Winter Garden Theatre. The play, written and composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on stories and characters from T. S. Eliot's 1939 <i>Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats</i>, and first premiered in London’s West End in 1981. The expensive and spectacular production has been called the first “megamusical,” inaugurating a new period of Broadway theater history when big-budget shows with elaborate special effects, spectacular costumes, and rock music revived the theater district’s sagging fortunes. <i>Cats</i> earned multiple Tony awards in its original run and has since been revived on Broadway and in numerous national and international tours.
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0219.05
label: accession number
content: 2000.0219
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0219.05
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Lamp Post
label: Object Name
content: prop
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 268 cm x 70 cm; 105 1/2 in x 27 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 46 in x 156 in x 42 in; 116.84 cm x 396.24 cm x 106.68 cm