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The Jellicles' very own pretty little ballerina! Graceful, coy, and ladylike, Victoria is easily the Jellicles' loveliest ingenue. She's the only Jellicle to have a costume consisting entirely of only one color: white. Bright, blinding, glittering white. White, white white. | |
| Victoria is of an age where she is no longer a kitten, but neither is she a full-grown queen. In fact, it may even be her first Jellicle ball as an eligible bachelorette, and the toms certainly do take notice. Not only does she naturally stand out in a crowd (she's the glowing young cat completely in white!) but she's also constantly being groped by one adoring tom or another. As far as I can gather, she has that Catholic schoolgirl type of appeal-- she seems pure and naive (white is the color of innocence, after all), but under that hard-to-get exterior she has a bit of a kinky streak. |
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The role of Victoria is the most demanding female dance part in the show. She has several dance solos, although her only singing is done with the rest of the chorus. Victoria also proves to be a pivotal part when, at the play's conclusion, she is the first Jellicle to answer Grizabella's plea for compassion and warmly accept the aging outcast back into the tribe. She is both debutante and paramour, angelic and mischievous, but most of all Victoria, named for the British Queen that T.S. Eliot himself so admired, is the play's symbol of love and acceptance for all. | |
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In the above pictures Victoria is portrayed by Phyllida Crowley Smith.
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