Well, most people don't! They see it as either random songs about cats, or they can see the audition plot, but mistakenly believe that it's about Grizabella redeeming herself in the eyes of the tribe and the other cats forgive her in the end. I want to put in a section addressing that, because that reasoning doesn't make sense!! Anyway, the 1998 movie is a really good version, so I highly recommend it :D They got two original cast members from the first 1987 show (Elaine Page and Ken Page who play Grizabella and Old Deutoronomy) plus Sir John Mills to play Gus the Theater Cat.