query: When did the musical Cats premier?
passage: Cats (musical)
Directed by Trevor Nunn and choreographed by Gillian Lynne, Cats first opened in the West End in 1981 and then with the same creative team on Broadway in 1982. It won numerous awards, including Best Musical at both the Laurence Olivier Awards and the Tony Awards. The London production ran for 21 years and the Broadway production ran for 18 years, both setting new records. Actresses Elaine Paige and Betty Buckley became particularly associated with the musical. One actress, Marlene Danielle, performed in the Broadway production for its entire run (from 1982 until 2000).[1]
passage: Patsy Gallant
With the decline of disco, Gallant's subsequent albums did not sell well. After her 1984 album "Take Another Look", she retreated from the music business, and in the late 1980s began taking roles in musical theatre. She has appeared in productions of "Cats", "Nunsense", a stage biography of Édith Piaf, and played the role of Stella Spotlight in the French hit musical "Starmania", in Paris, France, which ran for eight years in the 1990s. Luc Plamondon, the creator of "Starmania", wanted Gallant to play Stella in the original stage production in the 1970s; but owing to Gallant's busy schedule at the time, her managers did not even tell her about "Starmania", and the role of Stella Spotlight in the original production went to Diane Dufresne. She also had a brief stint as the stepmother in "Cindy", a musical based on "Cinderella", also written by Plamondon.