The young and innocent white cat Victoria performs a solo

dance. Munkustrap, a large grey tabby who serves as the show's

narrator, explains that the Jellicle Cats meet once a year to

rejoice! He also explains that they are waiting for their leader,

the wise Old Deuteronomy, who will choose which one of the

Jellicle Cats will this year journey to the Heaviside Layer to be

reborn to a new life!



ALL:

Jellicle cats come out tonight

Jellicle cats come one, come all

The jellicle moon is shining bright

Jellicles come to the jellicle ball



Jellicle cats come out tonight

Jellicles come to the jellicle ball



Jellicle cats come out tonight

Jellicle cats come one, come all

The jellicle moon is shining bright

Jellicles come to the jellicle ball



Jellicle cats come out tonight

Jellicle cats come one, come all

The jellicle moon is shining bright

Jellicles come to the jellicle ball



SOLO:

Jellicle cats meet once a year

At the jellicle ball where we all rejoice

And the jellicle leader will soon appear

And make what is known as the jellicle choice



That's when Old Deuteronomy just before dawn

Through a silence you feel you could cut with a knife

Announces the cat who can now be reborn

And come back to different jellicle life



Because waiting up there is the heaviside layer

With wonders one jellicle only will see

Jellicles ask because jellicles dare

Who will it be?



From this point onward, each of the cats tells his own story

in song and dance, hoping to be chosen as the special cat to

come back to a different Jellicle life.