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Apr 5, 2015
In the musical "Cats" this was the featured song of Grizabella, the Glamour Cat, whose glamour and beauty had been stolen by age. She is initially shunned by the others, probably because of her decrepit appearance. Only after singing this song do the rest of the cats realize that there is much more to her than her tattered, grizzled coat indicates and that they've done her a great disservice by treating her as they have and they welcome her back into the clan. In fact, her story even moves Old Deuteronomy, the revered leader, to select her to be reborn into a new life, a great honor among the cats. The obvious moral being not to judge people based on their appearance, but as Dr. Martin Luther King said, "on the content of their character".