Broadway musical "Cats" is set to bring the rap genre and do some "updating" on stage for their production run in the West End of London this 2014.

Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer of the hit musical, said that the character of Rum Tum Tugger will transform into a "street cat" for the next run of "Cats" in broadway. "He has to do hip-hop. That will be a completely new way of doing it," he said.

The lyrics that will be turned into rap will be taken from The Rum Tum Tugger poem that is included in the Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats-- a collection of poems written by TS Eliot. The same collection of poems was also the foundation of the Cats musical since it premiered in the 1980s. Lloyd Webber said that he decided to incorporate rap in the new run of the production because "I've come to the conclusion that ... maybe Eliot was the inventor of rap," citing the chorus of the Rum Tum Tugger poem to prove his conclusion: 'The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious cat / And there isn't any call for me to shout it / For he will do as he do / And there's no doing anything about it."'

Cats has been performed for 31 years now, and in the efforts to introduce the broadway musical to a whole new generation of children and broadway spectators, the show's director, Trevor Nunn, has hinted that some reworking are being done in the production to make it fit in the modern setting. He explains, "Who are we doing it for? When we started on Cats it was a show that went completely beyond any definition of a show for a particular generation. . . And there are certainly elements of the show that can be reinvigorated in very contemporary terms. But there will definitely be ingredients that will seem to be very up-to-date."

The London revival of the musical reunites the pioneer and original creative production team of the musical that is composed of director Trevor Nunn, choreographer Gilliam Lynne and designer John Napier. Cats is set to run in West End of London for 12 weeks starting December 6.