Jellicle cats Jellicle cats "Jellicle cats", or simply the "Jellicles", are a type of feline mentioned in T. S. Eliot's book "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats", and in "Cats", a stage musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and based on the book. Introduced in Eliot's poem "The Song of the Jellicles", they were originally depicted as commonly nocturnal gray, scruffy cats. Specifically, Eliot mentions that they like to gather at an event called the "Jellicle Ball". In the musical, a sub-plot surrounds the disappearance of the Jellicle patriarch Old Deuteronomy. The names are taken from Eliot's poem "The Naming of Cats"
Cats (musical) 2018 to February 1, 2019. The film's release date is set for December 20, 2019. On August 31, 2018, it was reported that Ian McKellen will play Gus the Theatre Cat and that Steven Spielberg will executive produce the film. On September 25, 2018, Laurie Davidson joined the cast. A day later, Mette Towley, who is best known for her choreography work with Pharrell, will be making her big screen debut in Universal/Working Title’s growing cast of Cats as Jemima. In October 2018, Idris Elba signed on as Macavity. Shortly after this announcement, Judi Dench, who had been slated to