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S. Eliot">T. S. Eliot</a> included in <i><a href="/wiki/Old_Possum%27s_Book_of_Practical_Cats" title="Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats">Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats</a></i>. Known as "The Theatre Cat" due to his career as an actor, Gus is an old and frail, yet revered, cat, who "suffers from palsy, which makes his paws shake." His coat is described as "shabby" and he is "no longer a terror to mice or to rats." </p><p>Gus, whose full name is Asparagus, is also a character in <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Lloyd_Webber" title="Andrew Lloyd Webber">Andrew Lloyd Webber</a>'s musical adaption of the book, <i><a href="/wiki/Cats_(musical)" title="Cats (musical)">Cats</a></i>. In the musical, the poem is used almost verbatim in the song "Gus: The Theatre Cat". </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_musical">The musical</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gus:_The_Theatre_Cat&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: The musical"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Koty_WPaszkowski_MSmuk.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Koty_WPaszkowski_MSmuk.jpg/220px-Koty_WPaszkowski_MSmuk.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="231" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Koty_WPaszkowski_MSmuk.jpg/330px-Koty_WPaszkowski_MSmuk.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Koty_WPaszkowski_MSmuk.jpg/440px-Koty_WPaszkowski_MSmuk.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1258" /></a><figcaption>Wojciech Paszkowski as Gus and Marta Smuk as Galaretka (<a href="/wiki/Jellylorum" title="Jellylorum">Jellylorum</a>) in the musical "<a href="/wiki/Cats_(musical)" title="Cats (musical)">Cats</a>" in Roma Musical Theatre in Warsaw, 13 October 2007.</figcaption></figure> <p>Gus appears shortly after the start of Act II of <i>Cats</i>, where he and <a href="/wiki/Jellylorum" title="Jellylorum">Jellylorum</a> sing a duet about the highlights of his career, contrasting his present state with his acting heyday: "He has acted with <a href="/wiki/Henry_Irving" title="Henry Irving">Irving</a>, he's acted with <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Beerbohm_Tree" title="Herbert Beerbohm Tree">Tree</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He and Jellylorum stress in particular his creation of the role of Firefrorefiddle, the Fiend of the <a href="/wiki/Fell" title="Fell">Fell</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In its only major deviation from the poem, the song modifies the line "He once played a Tiger—could do it again—Which an Indian Colonel pursued down a drain." to "I once played Growltiger—could do it again" and uses this to segue into the song "<a href="/wiki/Growltiger%27s_Last_Stand" title="Growltiger's Last Stand">Growltiger's Last Stand</a>", wherein Gus recreates his role of Growltiger, a pirate cat. At the end of "Growltiger's Last Stand", Gus returns in a short <a href="/wiki/Reprise" title="Reprise">reprise</a>. </p><p>In the live stage show, the actor playing Gus is usually double-cast as <a href="/wiki/Bustopher_Jones" class="mw-redirect" title="Bustopher Jones">Bustopher Jones</a>. The role is meant to be played by an <a href="/wiki/Operatic" class="mw-redirect" title="Operatic">operatic</a> <a href="/wiki/Tenor" title="Tenor">tenor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-royal_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-royal-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-vbw_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vbw-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notable_casting">Notable casting</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gus:_The_Theatre_Cat&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Notable casting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The role of Gus was originated by <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Tate" title="Stephen Tate">Stephen Tate</a> in the <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a> in 1981,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and by Stephen Hanan on <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> in 1982.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On screen, Gus was portrayed by <a href="/wiki/John_Mills" title="John Mills">John Mills</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Cats_(1998_film)" title="Cats (1998 film)">1998 film version</a> of the musical,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and by <a href="/wiki/Ian_McKellen" title="Ian McKellen">Ian McKellen</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Cats_(2019_film)" title="Cats (2019 film)">2019 film adaptation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cultural_references">Cultural references</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gus:_The_Theatre_Cat&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Cultural references"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The description in the original poem about Gus playing a "Tiger... which an Indian Colonel pursued down a drain" is a reference to the short story "<a href="/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Empty_House" title="The Adventure of the Empty House">The Adventure of the Empty House</a>" by <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle" title="Arthur Conan Doyle">Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</a>. In the story <a href="/wiki/Colonel_Sebastian_Moran" class="mw-redirect" title="Colonel Sebastian Moran">Colonel Sebastian Moran</a>, chief underling of the infamous <a href="/wiki/Professor_Moriarty" title="Professor Moriarty">Professor Moriarty</a>, is said to have pursued a man-eating tiger down a drain during his military service in India, before his criminal career. </p><p>Both the original poem and the number in the play refer to Gus's ability of <a href="/wiki/Pantomime" title="Pantomime">pantomime</a>, specifically in his serving as an understudy in a production of <a href="/wiki/Dick_Whittington_and_His_Cat" title="Dick Whittington and His Cat">Dick Whittington and His Cat</a>. </p><p>In the film <i><a href="/wiki/Logan%27s_Run_(1976_film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Logan's Run (1976 film)">Logan's Run</a></i>, Logan and Jessica meet an old man in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">Senate Chamber</a> during their search for Sanctuary. The old man has many cats and references "<a href="/wiki/The_Naming_of_Cats" title="The Naming of Cats">The Naming of Cats</a>", explaining that each cat has three names: one common, one unique, and one that only the cat knows. 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Alfred Prufrock">The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Portrait_of_a_Lady_(poem)" title="Portrait of a Lady (poem)">Portrait of a Lady</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Preludes_(poem)" title="Preludes (poem)">Preludes</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Whispers_of_Immortality" title="Whispers of Immortality">Whispers of Immortality</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Gerontion" title="Gerontion">Gerontion</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Waste_Land" title="The Waste Land">The Waste Land</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Hollow_Men" title="The Hollow Men">The Hollow Men</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ash_Wednesday_(poem)" title="Ash Wednesday (poem)">Ash Wednesday</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/T._S._Eliot%27s_Ariel_poems" title="T. S. Eliot's Ariel poems">Ariel Poems</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Journey_of_the_Magi" title="Journey of the Magi">Journey of the Magi</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/A_Song_for_Simeon" title="A Song for Simeon">A Song for Simeon</a>"</li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="8" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:T_S_Eliot_Simon_Fieldhouse.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/T_S_Eliot_Simon_Fieldhouse.jpg/130px-T_S_Eliot_Simon_Fieldhouse.jpg" decoding="async" width="130" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/T_S_Eliot_Simon_Fieldhouse.jpg/195px-T_S_Eliot_Simon_Fieldhouse.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/T_S_Eliot_Simon_Fieldhouse.jpg/260px-T_S_Eliot_Simon_Fieldhouse.jpg 2x" data-file-width="398" data-file-height="510" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Later poems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Old_Possum%27s_Book_of_Practical_Cats" title="Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats">Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Awefull_Battle_of_the_Pekes_and_the_Pollicles" title="The Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles">The Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles</a>"</li> <li>"<a class="mw-selflink selflink">Gus: The Theatre Cat</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Growltiger%27s_Last_Stand" title="Growltiger's Last Stand">Growltiger's Last Stand</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Naming_of_Cats" title="The Naming of Cats">The Naming of Cats</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Burnt_Norton" title="Burnt Norton">Burnt Norton</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/East_Coker_(poem)" title="East Coker (poem)">East Coker</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dry_Salvages" title="The Dry Salvages">The Dry Salvages</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Little_Gidding_(poem)" title="Little Gidding (poem)">Little Gidding</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Four_Quartets" title="Four Quartets">Four Quartets</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Plays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Sweeney_Agonistes" title="Sweeney Agonistes">Sweeney Agonistes</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Rock_(play)" title="The Rock (play)">The Rock</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Murder_in_the_Cathedral" title="Murder in the Cathedral">Murder in the Cathedral</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Family_Reunion" title="The Family Reunion">The Family Reunion</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cocktail_Party" title="The Cocktail Party">The Cocktail Party</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Confidential_Clerk" title="The Confidential Clerk">The Confidential Clerk</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Elder_Statesman_(play)" title="The Elder Statesman (play)">The Elder Statesman</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Prose</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Selected_Essays,_1917%E2%80%931932" title="Selected Essays, 1917–1932">Selected Essays, 1917–1932</a></i></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Hamlet_and_His_Problems" title="Hamlet and His Problems">Hamlet and His Problems</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Tradition_and_the_Individual_Talent" title="Tradition and the Individual Talent">Tradition and the Individual Talent</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sacred_Wood_(T._S._Eliot)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Sacred Wood (T. 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Eliot)">The Sacred Wood</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Choice_of_Kipling%27s_Verse" title="A Choice of Kipling's Verse">A Choice of Kipling's Verse</a></i> (1941)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Frontiers_of_Criticism" title="The Frontiers of Criticism">The Frontiers of Criticism</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Adaptations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Murder_in_the_Cathedral_(1951_film)" title="Murder in the Cathedral (1951 film)"><i>Murder in the Cathedral</i> (film)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Assassinio_nella_cattedrale" title="Assassinio nella cattedrale">Assassinio nella cattedrale</a></i> (opera)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murder_in_the_Cathedral_(1962_film)" title="Murder in the Cathedral (1962 film)"><i>Murder in the Cathedral</i> (TV play)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Canticle_IV:_The_Journey_of_the_Magi" title="Canticle IV: The Journey of the Magi">Canticle IV: The Journey of the Magi</a></i></li> <li><i>Cats</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cats_(musical)" title="Cats (musical)">1981 musical</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cats_(1998_film)" title="Cats (1998 film)">1998 film</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cats_(2019_film)" title="Cats (2019 film)">2019 film</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Publishing</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Criterion" title="The Criterion">The Criterion</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faber_and_Faber" class="mw-redirect" title="Faber and Faber">Faber and Faber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._S._Eliot_Prize" title="T. 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