Cats
Taylor Swift collaborated with fabled composer Andrew Lloyd Webber to write the original Sung dynasty “ Beautiful Ghosts " for the forthcoming adaptation of the musicalCats . The famous musical theater is very broadly speaking based on T. S. Eliot ’s children ’s poetry bookOld Possum ’s Book of Practical Catsand features music by Webber . Jonathan Swift plays the feline Bombalurina in theTom Hooper - directed version , which reach house on December 20 , 2019 . The telling ensemble cast also includes Dame Judi Dench , Sir Ian McKellen , Idris Elba , Jason Derulo , James Corden , and Rebel Wilson .
The Andrew Lloyd Webber melodic premiered in 1981 , and it remain one of the longest - running gambol of all time on both Broadway and London ’s West terminal . The tale follows a night in the life of the Jellicles , a tribe of singing and trip the light fantastic toe street cats who fantasise about traveling to a mystical afterlife they call the Heaviside Layer . Catsis a dissentious melodious . While many audiences fell in making love with the playful stage dancing and songs , others find the bizarre cat costumes extremely disturbing . The half - human , half - cat costumes and facepaintproduce an uncanny vale effect , and even fans of the musical can accommodate that the costumes lookweird- and the motion picture ’s CGI approach only heightens the weirdness .
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Varietyreports that Taylor Swift will sing " Beautiful Ghosts " over the movie ’s conclusion credits ; however , social dancer Francesca Hayward will perform the song in the moving picture itself ( with a reprise by Dench ) . Hayward is an realized danseuse making her feature - plastic film debut with a star turn inCatsas Victoria the White Cat . Dame Judi Dench is an Academy Award - make headway actress play an senior big cat list Old Deuteronomy . In a behind - the - scenes promotional TV release by Universal Pictures , Webber line the narrative motivation behind " Beautiful Ghosts " .
Of naturally , Webber , Hooper , and Swift may have another , more practical motive for writing a new song forCats . By adding an original song to the soundtrack , they will be eligible for the Best Original Song Oscar in 2020 . It ’s not the first time Hooper and Webber have used this technique to engender buzz and increase their probability of taking home an Oscar statue .
When Tom Hooperadapted the musicalLes Misérablesfor the braggy blind , he commissioned an additional song for the movie . " Suddenly , " by Claude - Michel Schönberg , Herbert Kretzmer , and Alain Boublil , was make for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2012 . also , Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote a new original strain for the 2004 version ofPhantom of the Opera . Sung by star Minnie Driver over the end credits , " Learn To Be Lonely " was also nominated for effective original song in 2004 . That means Taylor Swift has an excellent fortune of getting nominated for her own Academy Award in the near time to come , although the odds are against her winning .
If Taylor Swift does come through the Academy Award for Best Original Song for her newCatsnumber , she would be three - quarter of the agency to an EGOT . In addition to her 10 Grammys , she previously advance the 2015 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media — Original Interactive Program for the " Taylor Swift Experience , " frequent by American Express .
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