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Photo Coverage: Grizabellas of Past, Present & Future Unite Backstage at CATS!
By: Jessica Fallon Gordon Sep. 27, 2016
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There were Grizabellas here, there, and everywhere last night at the Winter Garden Theatre, as current Cats star Leona Lewis, her upcoming replacement Mamie Parris, and original Broadway glamor cat Betty Buckley met up backstage. Also in attendance was stage and screen star Bryan Batt, who played Munkustrap during the show's first run. BroadwayWorld was there for the special night and you can check out photos below!
Mamie Parris created the role of Patty in School of Rock - The Musical. She has also been seen on Broadway in On the Twentieth Century, Ragtime, 110 in the Shade, and The Drowsy Chaperone. On National Tour, Parris starred as Elphaba in Wicked and Judy in 9 to 5 The Musical.
Leona Lewis will complete her scheduled three-month run as "Grizabella" on Sunday, October 9, 2016. She has sold over 20 million records worldwide, reached #1 in over 35 countries, and is a 3-time GRAMMY nominee, a 7-time BRIT Award nominee also has also been nominated for MTV VMAs, EMAs, Billboard and most recently in 2016 a CMT award for her performance of 'Girl Crush' with Adam Lambert. Leona became the first British female solo artist to top the US Billboard 200 album chart in more than 20 years. Leona is a vocal powerhouse who is renowned for her massive four octave mezzo-soprano vocal range and power.
Betty Buckley, in an award-winning career that has encompassed TV, film, stage and concert work around the globe, is probably best known as one of theater's most respected and legendary leading ladies. She won a Tony Award for her performance as Grizabella, the Glamour Cat, inAndrew Lloyd Webber's Cats. Buckley received her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a musical for her performance as Hesione in Triumph of Love, and an Olivier Award nomination for her critically-acclaimed interpretation of Norma Desmond in the London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, which she repeated to more rave reviews on Broadway. She is a 2012 Theatre Hall of Fame inductee.
Photo Credit: Jessica Fallon Gordon
Bryan Batt and the cast of Cats
Mamie Parris and the cast of Cats
Bryan Batt, Betty Buckley and the cast of Cats
Bryan Batt, Betty Buckley and the cast of Cats
Andy Huntington Jones and Bryan Batt
Mamie Parris and Betty Buckley
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