Diehard fans of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats may be in for a shock with reports that the musical theatre maestro has teamed up to write a new song for the forthcoming film adaptation with Taylor Swift.
Swift has never won an Oscar, although Lloyd Webber has – in 1997, with Tim Rice, for a song from Evita.
The new song means the film becomes eligible for best song categories in prestigious annual film awards such as the Academy awards.
Lloyd Webber told the newspaper the song would also be sung briefly by Dame Judy Dench, who plays Old Deuteronomy.