Jellicle

But with so many recent stage revivals taking big conceptual risks and largely succeeding – Oklahoma!, Sunset Blvd., Cabaret At The Kit Kat Club, Cats: The Jellicle Ball can’t help feeling like a missed opportunity.

Dancers in “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” (in order of appearance), Robert Mason, or Silk; Dava Huesca, Primo and Baby Byrne.

Four performers with ballroom backgrounds spoke about embodying their characters through movement and how their paths led them to the Jellicle Ball.

The Jellicle cats have an annual ball where one cat is chosen to ascend to a new life.

The musical is based on a book of children’s poems by and tells the story of street “Jellicle cats” hoping to reach the “Heaviside layer” (an analogy for the afterlife).

He writes: :Pollicle dogs and cats all must :Jellicle cats and dogs all must :Like undertakers, come to dust.

In the song "The Journey to the Heaviside Layer", it is stated that the Heaviside Layer is "past the Russell Hotel " and "past the Jellicle moon", indicating that it is very far away and difficult to access.