Chorus

Audition Songs

Chose to perform one of the following, ideally without using the words.
Remember to perform it, not just stand there and sing it you are a CAT!

Jellicle Song

We can dive through the air like a flying trapeze,
We can turn double somersaults, bounce on a tyre
We can run up a wall, we can swing thru the trees
We can balance on bars, we can walk on a wire.

Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicles can and Jellicles do
Jellicles can and Jellicles do

Memory

Daylight see the dew on a sunflower
and a rose that is fading, roses wither away
Like the sunflower I yearn to turn my face to the dawn
I am waiting for the day

Memory turn your face to the moonlight
Let your memory lead you, open up enter in
If you find there the meaning of what happiness is,
Then a new life will begin.

Male Audition Songs

Chose to perform one of the following, ideally from memory. Remember to act it
you are a CAT! If you are unsuccessful in getting the part you audition for, you
will automatically be considered for Chorus. If you are interested in other
specific roles, please let us know at the audition.

Rum Tum Tugger The Rum Tum Tugger

The Rum TumTugger is a curious cat.
If you offer me pheasant I would rather have grouse

If you put me in a house I would much prefer a flat,
If you put me in a flat then Id rather have a house,
If you set me on a mouse then Id only want a rat
If you set me on a rat then Id rather chase a mouse

The Rum Tum Tugger is a curious cat
And there isnt any call for me to shout it
For he will do as he do do
And theres no doing anything abou..a-wowwow-tit

Old Deuteronomy The Addressing of Cats

Youve heard of several kinds of cat, and my opinion now is that
You should need no interpreter to understand our character.
Youve learned enough to take the view that cats are very much like you
Youve seen us both at work and games and learnt about our proper names,
Our habits and our habitat, but how would you address a cat.
So first, your memory Il jog and say: a cat is not a dog.

Munkstrap Old Deuteronomy

Old Deuteronomys lived a long time,
Hes a cat who has lived many lives in succession.
He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme,
Along while before Queen Victorias accession

Old Deuteronomys buried nine wives
And more I am tempted to say, ninety nine,
And his numerous progeny prosper and thrives
And the village is proud of him in his decline

At the sight of that placid and bland physiognomy
Where he sits in the sun on the vicarage wall,
The oldest inhabitant croaks
Well of all things, can it be really. Yes! No! Ho! Hi! Oh my eye!
My mind may be wandering, but I confess I believe it is Old Deuteronomy.

Female Audition Songs

Chose to perform one of the following, ideally from memory. Remember to act it
you are a CAT! If you are unsuccessful in getting the part you audition for, you
will automatically be considered for Chorus. If you are interested in other
specific roles, please let us know at the audition.

Grizabella Memory
Memory turn your face to the moonlight
Let your memory lead you, open up enter in
If you find there the meaning of what happiness is, then a new life will begin

Memory all alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days, I was beautiful then
I remember the tie I knew what happiness was
Let the memory live again

Burnt out ends of smokey days, the stale cold smell of morning
The street lamp dies, another night is over, another day is dawning

Daylight, I must wait for the sunrise,
I must think of a new life and I mustnt give in
When the dawn comes tonight will be a memory too
And a new day will begin

Sunlight through the trees in summer
Endless masquerade
Like a flower as the dawn is breaking, the memory is fading

Touch me, its so easy to leave me all alone with the memory
Of my days in the sun
If you touch me youll understand what happiness is
Look, a new day has begun

Rumpleteaser Mungojerrie & Rumpleteaser

Mungojerrie and Rumpleteaser were a notorious couple of cats
As knock about clowns quick change comedians
Tight rope walkers and acrobats
We have an extensive reputation
We make our home in Victoria Grove
This is merely our centre of operation
For we are incurably given to rove

If the arena window is found ajar and the basement looks like a field of war
If a tile or two comes loose on the roof which presently fails to be water proof
If the drawers are pulled out from the bedroom chests
And you cant find one of your winter vests
Or if after supper one of the girls

Suddenly misses her wollworth pearls

Then the familll say its that horrible cat
Was it Mungojerrie or Rumpleteazer, and most of the time they leave it at that.

Demeter/Bombalurina Macavity

Macavitys a mystery cat; hes called the hidden paw
For hes the master criminal who can defy the law
Hes the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squads despair
For when the reach the scene of crime
Macavitys not there.

Macavity Macavity, theres no one like Macavity,
Hes broken every human law he breaks the law of gravity
His powers of levitation would make a fakir star
And when you reach the scene of crime Macavitys not there

You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air
But I tell you once and once again, Macavitys not there.

Jemima - Memory

Daylight see the dew on a sunflower
and a rose that is fading, roses wither away
Like the sunflower I yearn to turn my face to the dawn
I am waiting for the day

Memory turn your face to the moonlight
Let your memory lead you, open up enter in
If you find there the meaning of what happiness is,
Then a new life will begin.