Today, producers Michael Harrison and Mike Bosner announced 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 Levingstonand 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, by arrangement with LW Entertainment.
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 Simpsonas ‘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!”
Fans who sign up at www.catsthejellicleball.com will have priority access to tickets beginning on Tuesday, October 14 at 10AM ET.
Presale tickets for CATS: The Jellicle Ball are available to Audience Rewards® members and fans from Tuesday, October 14 at 10:00 AM ET through Thursday, October 16 at 9:59 PM ET. To sign up for the fan presale, please register at www.catsthejellicelball.com
General on-sale will begin on Thursday, October 16 at 10 AM ET at www.telecharge.com or by calling 212-239-6200.
Ticketing policies for “The Runway” will be announced in the Spring before the start of previews.
When CATS: The Jellicle Ball premiered at Perelman Performing Arts Center | PAC NYC in 2024, it became the must-see theater event of the summer. The production was extended three times and left audiences and critics enraptured. The Off-Broadway production was honored with two Outer Critics Circle Awards including Outstanding Revival, three OBIE Awards, a New York Drama Critics Circle Special Citation, a Chita Rivera Award, two Audelco Awards, three Dorian Theater Awards, and three Hewes Awards.
The creative team for CATS: The Jellicle Ball includes Tony Award winner Rachel Hauck (scenic design), OBIE Award winner and Drama Desk Award nominee Qween Jean (costume design), Drama Desk Award nominee Adam Honoré (lighting design), Tony Award winner Kai Harada (sound design), Brittany Bland (projection design), Special Tony Award recipient Nikiya Mathis (hair and wig design), Josie Kearns (dramaturg & gender consultant), William Waldrop (music supervisor and music director), Cooper Howell and N'yomi Allure Stewart (associate directors), X Casting: Victor Vazquez, CSA and Sujotta R. Pace, CSA (casting director), and Cody Renard Richard (production stage manager). Baseline Theatrical will serve as general managers for CATS: The Jellicle Ball.
The Perelman Performing Arts Center production of CATS: The Jellicle Ball is produced on Broadway by Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals and Mike Bosner by arrangement with LW Entertainment.