Not that anyone asked, but my favourite lyric from Cats the Musical is in Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat, which go
"Then the guard looked in politely,
And would ask you, very brightly:
'Do you like your morning tea--'"
"'WEAK OR STRONG?'"
Like. I don't know, man. The fact that the kittens know exactly what he's about to say makes it feel like he's told this story a hundred times before, and they all know it by heart, and they're still so excited to hear it again. They're enjoying their story!!! It doesn't matter that they've heard it all, it's fun and their grandpa is funny and nice!!! And he's so surprised to be interrupted but so happy to go on with the story... It's such a sweet little thing.
It genuinely unironically makes me emotional.











