The upcoming film adaptation of “Cats” will include a Jellicle song by Jellicle Swift.
The movie-musical’s composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber, has collaborated with pop star Taylor Swift on a new tune called “Beautiful Ghosts,” reports Variety.
Besides the composing credit, Swift also appears in the film as Bombalurina, who sings “Macavity the Mystery Cat.”
“Beautiful Ghosts” will be sung by dancer Francesca Hayward in the film, and by Swift during the end credits. Dame Judi Dench is also said to perform a short reprise.
Most of the numbers from the 1981 Broadway and West End musical are poems from T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” set to music by Webber. The exception is the show’s most famous ballad, “Memory,” which was adapted from a separate Eliot piece called “Rhapsody On A Windy Night.”
“Beautiful Ghosts” does not appear to be inspired by any poem by the 1948 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Swift, who wrote the new lyrics, has won 10 Grammy Awards.
The song will be eligible for Best Song at the 2020 Academy Awards.
“Cats” hits theaters on Dec. 20.
Ref;nypost.com