Alonzo (cat) Alonzo (cat) Alonzo is a character in T. S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Cats". His name is mentioned first in the "Naming of Cats". His actor sometimes doubles as the Great Rumpus Cat, depending on the production. Alonzo is a black and white tom. He pulls Demeter away from Macavity, and is the first to attack him after he defeats Munkustrap. In the US and the first German Productions, he is depicted as being black and gold. Alonzo is the most flirtatious of the cats; seen flirting with many of the kittens
The King of the Cats first cursing all mice, killing a dozen of them in shame, followed by the cats who should have kept the mice in check; in retaliation, the king of the cats, Irusan son of Arusan hunts Senchán down intending to kill him, but is in turn killed by St Kieran. This tale was reworked by Lady Jane Wilde as "Seanchan the Bard and the King of the Cats", published in her 1866 book "Ancient Legends of Ireland", and included in W. B. Yeats' 1892 book "Irish Fairy Tales". The second was retold as "When the King of the Cats Came to