It has also been translated into multiple languages and performed around the world many times. Cats has since been revived in the West End twice and on Broadway once. The London production ran for 21 years and 8,949 performances, while the Broadway production ran for 18 years and 7,485 performances, making Cats the longest-running musical in both theatre districts for a number of years (surpassing A Chorus Line which ran for 6,137 performances). Despite its unusual premise that deterred investors initially, the musical turned out to be an unprecedented commercial success, with a worldwide gross of US$3.5 billion by 2012. It won numerous awards including Best Musical at both the Laurence Olivier and Tony Awards.

Cats opened to positive reviews at the New London Theatre in the West End in 1981 and then to mixed reviews at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway in 1982. Producer Cameron Mackintosh then recruited director Trevor Nunn and choreographer Gillian Lynne to turn the songs into a complete musical. Lloyd Webber began setting Eliot's poems to music in 1977, and the compositions were first presented as a song cycle in 1980. As of 2022, Cats remains the fourth-longest-running Broadway show and the seventh-longest-running West End show. It tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make the 'Jellicle choice' by deciding which cat will ascend to the Heaviside layer and come back to a new life. Laurence Olivier Award for Best New MusicalĬats is a sung-through musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.The fact that good polarization selectivity can be achieved by aloof-beam EELS without the requirement of sample reorientation is an attractive aspect from the characterization method point of view in the STEM-EELS community. The observed results are qualitatively elucidated in terms of the perpendicular electric fields generated by the fast electron (60 kV) used in the microscope.

We demonstrate that good polarization selectivity can be achieved by placing the electron probe at different locations around the specimen with increasing impact parameter while keeping the beam-specimen orientation fixed. We note some degree of orientation dependence at the onset of direct band gap transition near 3.4 eV. The two key crystal orientation differentiating transitions specific to the in-plane (13.0 eV) and out-of-plane (11.2 eV) directions with respect to the wurtzite structure are examined by first-principles density-functional theory calculations. Orientation-dependent electronic properties of wurtzite zinc oxide nanorods are characterized by aloof-beam electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) carried out in a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM).

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