Last month, Lynne became the first woman to have a West End theatre named after her when Lloyd Webber renamed his New London theatre.
Gillian Lynne, the leading British choreographer who created the slinky moves of Macavity, Grizabella and other feline stars of the West End hit Cats, has died aged 92.
Lynne had a long-running collaboration with the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and choreographed The Phantom of the Opera and Aspects of Love.
Cats, an adaptation of TS Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, produced by Cameron Mackintosh, opened in 1981, and won her an Olivier award.