CATS: The Jellicle Ball
About This Event
CATS: The Jellicle Ball reframes the familiar Broadway musical through the language of ballroom, presented at the Broadhurst Theatre as a live, ensemble work under its own title. Performers drawn from dance, theater and club traditions prioritize physical storytelling and ensemble discipline, treating character as movement as much as voice and favoring community-driven performance over theatrical ornament.
About Cats(musical)
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First seen on Broadway in 1982, *Cats* became a defining artifact of New York’s 1980s megamusical era and remains one of the city’s longest-running productions. The piece is sung-through, built from T. S. Eliot’s feline poems and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s score, and follows the Jellicle cats as they gather to choose one among them for renewal in a next life. Now at the Broadhurst Theatre in the concert-style *CATS: The Jellicle Ball*, it reads less like plot-driven drama than a ritual of character portraits.
About the Artist
CATS: The Jellicle Ball
CATS: The Jellicle Ball is a group presentation that re-frames the familiar Broadway musical through the language of ballroom, with performers drawn from dance, theater, and club traditions. In New York City it is staged at the Broadhurst Theatre, where the piece is presented as a live event under its own title.