“Cats: The Jellicle Ball” spins, dips, and—yes—catwalks in a fierce reimagining of the ’80s megahit
PAC NYC’s revelatory revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical than what poet T.S. Eliot meant when he wrote Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, published in 1939.
Cats rose to the Heaviside Layer when it premiered on Broadway in 1982, winning seven Tony Awards (including Best Musical) and running for 7,485 performances.
When marketing geniuses came up with the tagline, “Now and Forever,” they weren’t being ironic. A revival, reasonably close to the original, ran just 17 months, and who could forget (as much as we’d like to try) the 2019 CGI film version starring Taylor Swift, Ian McKellen, Rebel Wilson, and Jennifer Hudson as Grizabella, the Glamour Cat.
Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.But renowned theater director Bill Rauch had another kind of Cats in mind.
