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Andrew Lloyd Webber’s adaptation of T. S. Eliot’s feline poesy ends its Broadway revival.

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To learn grammar was to appreciate the book’s poesy, which in turn was to break open a once-inaccessible text.

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In rehearsals, the cast members binge on Shakespeare films and take vocabulary quizzes, all of which contributes to their ease with words like “spake” or “poesies.”

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Some are full-blown scripts, such as the piracy/poesy plays “The Pirate Laureate of Port Town” and “The Pirate Laureate and the King of the Sea,” by company member Zachary Fernebok.

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She said that the name posy related to the French word for poem - poesy.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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