CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL Confirmed to Return to the Stage
Previews begin at the Broadhurst theatre on March 18, 2026.
By: Sidney Paterra Oct. 09, 2025
CATS: The Jellicle Ball, will play Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre with previews beginning Wednesday, March 18, 2026 ahead of a Tuesday, April 7, 2026 opening night.
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 Simpson as ‘Demeter,’ Emma Sofia as ‘Cassandra’/’Skimbleshanks,’ Garnet Williams as ‘Bombalurina,’ and Teddy Wilson, Jr. as ‘Sillabub.’ Additional casting will be announced.
Watch the trailer here!
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!”
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BroadwayWorld previously reported that CATS: The Jellicle Ball would open on Broadway in 2026, but the production had not yet confirmed the details. Cats: The Jellicle Ball previously ran Off-Broadway at PAC NYC from June 13 to July 28, 2024. Read the reviews for the production HERE.
CATS: The Jellicle Ball is a radical reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic dance musical Cats based on Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. Inspired by the Ballroom culture that roared out of New York City over 50 years ago and still rages on runways around the world, it was staged as an immersive competition directed by Zhailon Levingston (Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Chicken & Biscuits) and PAC NYC Artistic Director Bill Rauch (All the Way), with all new Ballroom and club beats, runway ready choreography, and an edgy eleganza makeover.
