Round 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 features a character in an all-white costume performing a pas de deux. (-5[1])A character in this musical is described in an eponymous song as the ”Napoleon of Crime” after he kidnaps (*) Old Deuteronomy, who is rescued following a dance solo by the “Magical Mr. Mistoffelees.” Grizabella passes over to (10[1])the Heaviside Layer in this musical after singing"Memory." For 10 points, T.S. Eliot’s poetry inspired what Andrew Lloyd Webber musical about the title animals? ■END■

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