CATS: The Jellicle Ball

Now at the Broadhurst Theatre, *Cats: The Jellicle Ball* reframes Andrew Lloyd Webber’s *Cats* as a concert-style event shaped by the vocabulary of New York City nightlife and ballroom culture. The familiar procession of Jellicle introductions becomes a social ritual, with music and movement carrying as much narrative weight as text. In a city where Broadway has long absorbed downtown forms, the piece reads as a record of cultural exchange, not just revival. Its clearest insight is that *Cats* survives through reinterpretation rather than fidelity.