Packet 6: Tossup 3

This musical’s director Trevor Nunn wrote lyrics for a song in it to be sung by Judi Dench, only for her to get injured days before its opening night. A 13-minute dance sequence with no singing in this musical (-5[1])features a character in an all-white costume performing a pas de (15[1])deux. (-5[2])A character in this musical (15[1]-5[1])is described in an (-5[1])eponymous (-5[1])song as the ”Napoleon (-5[1])of Crime” after (15[3])he (15[1])kidnaps (*) Old (15[3])Deuteronomy, (10[2])who (10[5])is rescued (10[2])following (10[2])a (10[1])dance solo (10[1])by the “Magical Mr. Mistoffelees.” Grizabella (10[2])passes (10[3])over (10[1])to (10[2])the Heaviside Layer in this musical after singing"Memory." For 10 points, T.S. Eliot’s poetry inspired what Andrew (10[2])Lloyd (10[3])Webber musical about the title animals? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

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