CATS: The Jellicle Ball

Now at the Broadhurst Theatre, *Cats: The Jellicle Ball* reframes Andrew Lloyd Webber’s *Cats* as a concert-style event on a Broadway stage in New York City. It keeps the familiar premise: a night gathering of Jellicle cats, structured as a sequence of character portraits rather than a single plot line. In a city where *Cats* has long been part of Broadway’s memory, this version treats the material as repertory, something to be reinterpreted in the present. Its clearest strength is how it foregrounds performance culture over narrative mechanics.