Grizabella

Grizabella is a character in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats. She is featured in the song: "Grizabella: The Glamour Cat".

Appearance
Grizabella has a ragged and worn out coat. She is portrayed as an older cat that has lead a harsh life.

Role
Grizabella is referred to as "the glamour cat". She supposedly left the Jellicle cats a while ago wanting to see the real world and be a star.

She now comes back to the Jellicle cats all old and worn out. Most of the older cats who knew her before, scratch and claw at Grizabella for leaving. The kittens try to touch her and know her but the elders pull them away.

During her song, "Memory", she is trying to reach out for help. Old Deuteronomy hears her and tries to reach out, but she does not notice.

Later, she is chosen to be reborn, "and come back to a different Jellicle life". In the middle of her song, she collapses with grief. But a young kitten, named Jemima, picks up where she left off and helps Grizabella finish her song. Another white kitten called Victoria listens and is first to touch her. Grizabella walks with Old Deuteronomy and gets raised upward with a hand from the great beyond.