Did You Know...

The musical starts in a junkyard where the Jellicle cats are holding the annual Jellicle Ball. Every year at this ball, one Jellicle cat ascends to heaven and is reborn. It is up to Old Deuteronomy, the oldest and wisest cat, to decide who will receive this great honor. The cats competing for this privilege include Jennyanydots, The Rum Tum Tugger, Bustopher Jones, Gus: The Theatre Cat, and Skimbleshanks. Grizabella, the faded beauty who is now not well liked, also wants to be considered for this honor but has not been invited to the ball. She is chased away from the ball several times.

Before Old Deuteronomy is able to decide, he is kidnapped by Macavity, the ominous Mystery Cat. Macavity and his two henchmen 'cat burglars' are outraged that they have not been invited to the ball. However, Old Deuteronomy is eventually returned to choose the lucky cat that will be reborn. These scenes include many famous song and dance routines including 'Memory', 'Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats', 'The Naming of the Cats', and 'The Ad-dressing of the Cats'.

On Broadway, Cats sold an estimated eight million tickets, and fifty million tickets were sold worldwide. It has broken box office records for ticket sales at the Empire Theatre in England for selling over $200,000 in tickets in just two hours.