Cats The Musical! Nicole Sherzinger as Grizabella You Say?

Nicole Scherzinger born June 29, 1978 is an American recording artist, actress and television personality. After reaching one-hit wonder success with girl group Eden's Crush, she signed with Interscope Records in 2003 as a member of The Pussycat Dolls, a burlesque troupe turned-recording act.

Described as the "driving force" behind The Pussycat Dolls, Scherzinger is credited and her legacy for the result of the group's international success in the music industry, during a time when girl groups were non-existent.

Since beginning her career with the group in 2003, Scherzinger has sold 54 million records worldwide, and a further 16 million as a solo artist.

A New Star to Musical Theatre

Nicole Scherzinger with pussycat ears on the stage of the London Palladium?

Former X Factor judge Scherzinger, similarly well known as Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton’s Lady on the shoulder, plays Grizabella the Glamour Cat in a top-whisker revival of Lord Lloyd-Webber’s 33-year-old musical.


It is not the main part. Dissimilar her fellow felines she does not have to jump, dance, do the splits or claw the air while bending her bottom, neck and inner thighs.

Yet Grizabella, one of life’s Norma Desmonds, has the show’s supreme song, Memory repeatedly.

Grizabella is a vanishing beauty. She desires to be touched, to be acknowledged as a as a person (cat)

by a society that considers her scornful.

The sweeping, surging Lloyd Webber chords stir our gubbins. There stands Grizabella on the vast stage, watched by a sceptical world. ‘Midnight, not a sound from the pavement...’

The one risky part is when they try to over-modernise it and Antoine Murray-Straughan does a rap as Rum Tug Tugger, complete with 21st century baseball cap.



You could debate that the story is just a series of character outlines. But once you fall into the zone you become mesmerized by these kittenish shapes, by a penumbral fantasy world and by the feline charms of mouser Scherzinger.