"CATS: The Jellicle Ball" is coming to Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre

Producers Michael Harrison and Mike Bosner announce today that the wildly acclaimed, award-winning production of CATS: The Jellicle Ball, will play Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 44th Street) with previews beginning Wednesday, March 18, 2026 ahead of a Tuesday, April 7, 2026 opening night.

The production, which made its debut last season at Perelman Performing Arts Center | PAC NYC and was included in “The Best Theater” lists by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Time Out New York, New York Magazine, and The New Yorker, is directed by OBIE Award winners Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch and choreographed by Chita Rivera Award winners Omari Wiles and Arturo Lyons. CATS: The Jellicle Ball has music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and is based on Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot.

Reprising their roles from the Off-Broadway production, the cast of CATS: The Jellicle Ball will include Tony Award® and Grammy Award® winner André De Shields as ‘Old Deuteronomy,’ Jonathan Burke as ‘Mungojerrie,’ Baby Byrne as ‘Victoria,’ Tara Lashan Clinkscales, Sydney James Harcourt as ‘Rum Tum Tugger,’ Dava Huesca as ‘Rumpleteazer,’ Dudney Joseph Jr. as ‘Munkustrap,’ Junior LaBeija as ‘Gus,’ Robert “Silk” Mason as ‘Magical Mister Mistoffelees,’ “Tempress” Chasity Moore as ‘Grizabella,’ Primo Thee Ballerino as ‘Tumblebrutus,’ Xavier Reyes as ‘Jennyanydots,’ Nora Schell as ‘Bustopher Jones,’ Bebe Nicole Simpson as ‘Demeter,’ Emma Sofia as ‘Cassandra’/’Skimbleshanks,’ Garnet Williams as ‘Bombalurina,’ and Teddy Wilson, Jr. as ‘Sillabub.’ Additional casting will be announced.  

Based on T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, Andrew Lloyd Webber's worldwide phenomenon CATS is reimagined in a production that smashed records, won awards and left New York City purring. And now CATS: The Jellicle Ball ascends to Broadway in a kaleidoscope of glittering spectacle, iconic music and electrifying ballroom choreography that The New York Times calls “a lightning strike that sets joy free!”