![]() ![]() The cat is exposed as a fraud which causes an uproar in the music world. The cat is truly embarrassed, and audience members walk out of the Hall while calling the performance "ridiculous", "insulting", and "preposterous," and the Joneses narrowly escape out the stage entrance. He plays on, despite not being able to read the music, and it turns out to be a disaster. The mouse pauses playing after the first few bars, and at the same time the cat falls from his piano stool after playing an arpeggio the re-adjusts himself on the stool, and again taps the mouse on the head, but this time, the mouse's head is turned, and his glasses are broken by the piano key, and he can no longer read the sheet music in front of him. The signal is given (a tap on the mouse's head by a piano key), and the mouse starts playing "Hungarian Rhapsody" by Franz Liszt. The curtain rises, the Joneses sit proudly in a theater box, the cat walks proudly out on stage and takes his seat at the piano. The cat is dubbed "Miracle Cat" and while a disbelieving audience awaits the cat's debut, the cat drags the mouse on stage behind the curtain and puts him into the piano and tells him that when he gives the signal, to start playing. One night, the cat performs at Carnegie Hall, displacing "Leopold Stabowski". Soon, there are agents obtaining signed contracts for the cat to appear in public performances. The cat is examined by scientists, but they are unable to find anything abnormal about the cat for instance, an x-ray of his brain shows it to be the size of a peanut. Suddenly there is a flurry of media activity around the house. The cat promises to spare the mouse if he can play the piano while the cat continues to pretend, hoping that his success might make him famous. Jones immediately calls the United Press. ![]() Jones hear the music from the other room and approach, the cat hides the mouse and the little piano inside the real piano, and pretends to play it as the Joneses look on. Once the cat hears the music, he is astounded. The cat agrees, so the mouse asks the cat to retrieve the piano and gives the mouse some sheet music to play. One day, their cat catches a mouse, but the mouse pleads with the cat to spare him his life if he can prove to the cat that he's ".a very fine pianist". even days after their daughter Mary Lou's toy piano (and sheet music) had gone missing. John and Vy Jones, a typical suburban couple, keep hearing piano music playing, but can't figure out where it's coming from. The cartoon is about a talented piano-playing mouse becoming a slave to a house cat. The short was released on January 1, 1955. Merrie Melodies animated short directed by Friz Freleng. Pizzicato Pussycat is a 1955 Warner Bros.
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