(OPEN WITH TRACK 1 "Je cherche un homme"... fade under after "or Tom...." 20 secs in.... run under until the tape starts) To those who have heard the voice before, she is instantly recognizable. To many others -- just say "Catwoman" and they'll reply -- "Eartha Kitt." Thirty years after she appeared on the Batman TV show it's still her most famous role... and she doesn't seem to mind. Her sex kitten image endures even into her 70s. But there is much more to Eartha Kitt both as a person and a performer. Born the daughter of South Carolina sharecroppers, her family was abandoned by her father when she was 2...her mother died when she was 6. After being passed from neighbor to neighbor for a couple of years she was taken in by an aunt living in Harlem. It was there she began showing her talent for language and dance, which, despite having to repeatedly overcome the barriers of discrimination, was eventually to lead Eartha Kitt to international acclaim as a singer, and a star of stage and screen. In the Rogers and Hammerstein's production of "Cinderella" opening tonight at the Historic State Theatre in Minneapolis, Kitt plays the fairy godmother. But she believes she has more in common with Cinderella.