Possible Clues:

• Eliot's were practical
• Show in which exotic cast also acts strangely
• Carnivores — stage musical
• Jazz devotees
• *Jazz devotees
• Animals with righting reflexes
• "Phantom" surpassed it as the longest-running Broadway musical
• "Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer" musical
• 'Cool' ones
• Some household pets