STAGE TUBE: Watch as Kerry Ellis Becomes 'Grizabella' in West End's CATS!

Kerry Ellis has just joined the cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber's record-breaking musical Cats playing the role of Grizabella, and below, you can watch as she transforms into her character! Based on T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, Cats returned to the West End last month with the original creative team - Director Trevor Nunn, Associate Director and Choreographer Gillian Lynne, Designer John Napier and Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber - reunited for the Palladium run.

On just one special night of the year, all Jellicle Cats meet at the Jellicle Ball where Old Deuteronomy, their wise and benevolent leader, makes the Jellicle choice and announces which of them will go up to The Heaviside Layer and be reborn into a whole new Jellicle life.

West End musical star Kerry Ellis' has played Elphaba in Wicked both in the West End and on Broadway. Her other theatre credits include War of the Worlds Arena Tour, Oliver! at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Les Miserables at the Queens Theatre, We Will Rock You at the Dominion Theatre and My Fair Lady for the National Theatre and in the West End. Ellis has also performed on tour and in the UK in The Sound of the Musicals, West End Women and Rent 20th Anniversary Concert. With Brian May she completed a UK and European tour of Acoustic by Candlelight. Her other concert performances include Kerry Ellis Live at the London Palladium, Anthems at the Royal Albert Hall and on Tour,Proms on the Thames with Russell Watson, Halle at Lytham Proms with Michael Ball, Night of 1000 Voices, Chess In Concert and The Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall, Godspell In Concert at Manchester Opera House andBBC Proms In The Park. Her latest album, Kerry Ellis, was released last year followed by a UK solo tour. Her other recording credits include Anthems-Debut Album, Bring Him Home, Wicked In Rock, Band of Brothers and Reach For The Skies. Ellis has also recorded Acoustic by Candlelight, The Kissing Me Song and Live in Montreux all with Brian May and a duet with Rhydian Roberts.