Drat! The Cat!

is a 1965 musical about a well-off Gilded Age catgirl who becomes a jewel thief and captures the heart of the police officer assigned to arrest her.

On October 10, the Broadway production at the Martin Beck Theatre, presented by Jerry Adler and Norman Rosemont and directed and choreographed by Joe Layton.

The cast included Lesley Ann Warren, Elliott Gould, Charles Durning, Jane Connell, and Beth Howland.

Gould's wife at the time, Barbra Streisand, had a hit with her recording of "He Touched Me", a gender-reversed version of one of the show's songs, which went to number two on the Easy Listening chart.

[5] In 1997, Varèse Sarabande released a studio recording featuring Susan Egan, Jason Graae, Judy Kaye, Bryan Batt, Jonathan Freeman, and Elaine Stritch.