UPDATED! Betty Buckley Attends West End CATS, Shares Photo & Candidly Comments, 'I Started To Cry'

The original Broadway Grizabella lets the memory live again in the UK!

Tony Award-winning Broadway legend Betty Buckley revisited a hallmark from her career by attending the new revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular musical CATS in the West End this weekend and shared her feelings on the momentous event via social media, as well as a candid photo.

Buckley shared, "At the new production of CATS in London tonight! I started to cry when I first entered the Theater. What a time in my life 33 years ago now. #‎LondonPalladium #‎CATS".

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UPDATE: After the closing performance of the show on Saturday night, Buckley shared a photo of herself with the cast, writing, "With London CATS company after their wonderful show tonight!"

Of note, Buckley is currently in the UK to participate in the upcoming star-studded FOLLIES concert event in which she will portray Carlotta and perform one of Stephen Sondheim's most iconic showstoppers, "I'm Still Here". Check out BroadwayWorld's article on the matter here.

The official description of CATS is as follows: "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. Cats is directed by Trevor Nunn, with Gillian Lynne as Associate Director and Choreographer and designs by John Napier. Book is by T. S. Eliot with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Cats, one of the longest-running shows in West End and on Broadway, received its world premiere at the New London Theatre in 1981 where it played for 21 record-breaking years and almost 9,000 performances. The production was the winner of the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Musical. In 1983 the Broadway production became the recipient of seven Tony awards including Best Musical, and ran for eighteen years. Since its world premiere, Cats has been presented in over 26 countries, has been translated into 10 languages and has been seen by over 50 million people world-wide. Both the original London and Broadway cast recordings won Grammy Awards for Best Cast Album. The classic Lloyd Webber score includes Memory which has been recorded by over 150 artists from Barbra Streisand and Johnny Mathis to Liberace and Barry Manilow."

More information on CATS is available at the official site here.

View the new photos of Betty Buckley at CATS below.

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