"Jellicle" cats join for a Jellicle ball where they rejoice with their leader, Old Deuteronomy. One cat will be chosen to go to the "Heavyside Layer" and be reborn. The cats introduce themselves.

Aside from learning a beginner arrangement of “Memory” for piano when I was 15, I walked into Tom Hooper’s 2019 film adaptation of Cats with little knowledge of the hit Broadway musical it adapts. I ...