Cats will be streamed on YouTube from Friday evening.
The stage production of the iconic show, starring Elaine Paige, John Partridge, Jacob Brent, Jason Gardiner and Sir John Mills, will be available for free from 7pm BST.
The streamed musical is the next in The Shows Must Go On series, which seems pieces being streamed for free online while a lockdown of UK households continues, which has seen theatres closed up and down the country.
Playing from Friday 14 May at 7pm BST, the show will be available for 24 hours in the UK and for 48 hours across most territories.
Watch the trailer here:
The Vision Foundation, a sight loss charity once championed by the actor Sir John Mills, celebrated its centenary this week by interviewing Dame Judi Dench who, like Mills, suffers from macular
Hayley said there is a “stigma” about partially sighted or blind people working as actors.
“I think it is about ignorance because unless you have had that experience yourself, you don’t know what it is like,” she said.
“It’s not something you can see unless someone comes towards you with a white stick and people have to make other allowances.”
The actress said her father remained “terribly independent” despite the issues with his vision.
“He carried on working for a very long time and people didn’t know that he was having problems,” she said.
“He was so very lucky because his sight diminished quite slowly, which gave him the opportunity to adapt.”
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1 Mary Chapman. The Bethel Hospital opened in 1713 as the first provincial mental hospital in the country. Mary Chapman (1647-1724) took a 1,000 year lease for a peppercorn rent for the site. At the time the concept of treating people with mental illness was not accepted practice and they were often ridiculed or locked away. The Bethel continued to offer psychiatric services until the 1980s.
2 The Chapel in the Fields. The Assembly House was built by local architect Thomas Ivory in 1755 on the site of a medieval hospital college which became known as the Chapel in the Fields. In 1609 the Hobart family of Blickling Hall built a town house here. Henry Hobart bought some of the fields surrounding the original Chapel in the Fields – including what is now Chapelfield Gardens.