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Cats: The Jellicle Ball is coming to Broadway.<\/p>\n
The musical, which reimagines Andrew Lloyd Webber\u2019s Cats as a drag ballroom competition, will play Broadway\u2019s Broadhurst Theatre\u00a0with previews starting March 18, 2026, ahead of an April 7 opening night. The musical moves to Broadway after an acclaimed run at New York\u2019s Perelman Performing Arts Center last season.<\/p>\n
More from The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch direct, with choreography by Omari Wiles and Arturo Lyons. This is the latest reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber\u2019s work, following the immersive Phantom of the Opera in New York City, Jamie Lloyd\u2019s stripped-down revival of Sunset Blvd., starring Nicole Scherzinger, and Lloyd\u2019s concert-like take on Evita, on the West End starring Rachel Zegler.<\/p>\n The original production of Cats ran on Broadway from 1982 to 2000, and was revived in 2016. The musical was also adapted into a much-maligned 2019 film.<\/p>\n The cast of Cats including Tony Award winner Andr\u00e9 De Shields as Old Deuteronomy, Sydney James Harcourt as Rum Tum Tugger, \u201cTempress\u201d Chasity Moore as \u2018Grizabella, and Junior LaBeija as \u2018Gus,\u2019\u00a0 will reprise their roles from the Off-Broadway production.<\/p>\n The cast also includes Jonathan Burke as \u2018Mungojerrie,\u2019 Baby Byrne as \u2018Victoria,\u2019 Tara Lashan Clinkscales, as \u2018Rum Tum Tugger,\u2019 Dava Huesca as \u2018Rumpleteazer,\u2019 Dudney Joseph Jr. as \u2018Munkustrap,\u2019 Junior LaBeija as \u2018Gus,\u2019 Robert \u201cSilk\u201d Mason as \u2018Magical Mister Mistoffelees,\u2019 Primo Thee Ballerino as \u2018Tumblebrutus,\u2019 Xavier Reyes as \u2018Jennyanydots,\u2019 Nora Schell as \u2018Bustopher Jones,\u2019 Bebe Nicole Simpson as \u2018Demeter,\u2019 Emma Sofia as \u2018Cassandra\u2019\/\u2019Skimbleshanks,\u2019 Garnet Williams as \u2018Bombalurina,\u2019 and Teddy Wilson, Jr. as \u2018Sillabub.\u2019 Additional casting will be announced.<\/p>\n Michael Harrison\u00a0and\u00a0Mike Bosner\u00a0will produce the musical.<\/p>\n Best of The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for THR’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cats: The Jellicle Ball is coming to Broadway. The musical, which reimagines Andrew Lloyd Webber\u2019s Cats as a drag ballroom competition, will play Broadway\u2019s Broadhurst Theatre\u00a0with previews starting March 18, 2026, ahead of an April 7 opening night. The musical moves to Broadway after an acclaimed run at New York\u2019s Perelman Performing Arts Center last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2079441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[324114,390705,390708,390702,390706,311140,34395,338101,390703,390701,390707,390704],"class_list":["post-2079440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-andrew-lloyd-webber","tag-arturo-lyons","tag-bill-rauch","tag-broadhurst-theatre","tag-cast-of-cats","tag-cats","tag-hollywood-reporter","tag-nicole-scherzinger","tag-omari-wiles","tag-rum-tum-tugger","tag-the-jellicle-ball","tag-zhailon-levingston"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Jellicle-Ball-Will-Come-to-Broadway-This-Spring.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079442,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079440\/revisions\/2079442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2079441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}