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The company of Cats: The Jellicle Ball
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Cats: The Jellicle Ball, the re-imagined revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running meow-fest which was a hit Off-Broadway, has announced dates and a theater for its long-awaited Broadway transfer. Previews will begin March 18 at the Broadhurst ahead of an April 7 opening.
Directed by Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch, the production sets TS Eliot's feline-inspired poems in a drag ballroom setting. For its Off-Broadway run at the Perelman Performing Arts Center last year, Cats: The Jellicle Ball won a special citation from the New York Drama Critics Circle and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical. Most of the original company will repeat their roles on Broadway including Tony winner Andre 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 and Skimbleshanks, Garnet Williams as Bombalurina, and Teddy Wilson, Jr. as Sillabub. Additional casting will be announced.
2025-26 Broadway/Off-Broadway Calendar
Fall 2025
Oct. 9--Andre De Shields Is Tartuffe (House of the Redeemer)
Oct. 13--Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God (Playwrights Horizons)
Oct. 15--Let's Love (Atlantic Theater Company)
Oct. 15--Oh Happy Day (Public)
Oct. 16--Ragtime (Vivian Beaumont/LCT)
Oct. 16--Oratorio of Living Things (Signature Theater Company)
Oct. 22--Endgame (Druid/Irish Arts Center) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Oct. 24--Did You Eat? (Public)
Oct. 27--Beau the Musical (St. Luke's)
Oct. 28--Liberation (James Earl Jones)
Oct. 28--Romy and Michelle: The Musical (Stage 42)
Oct. 29--Bat Boy (Encores!)
Oct. 30--Little Bear Ridge Road (Booth)
Nov. 2--Messy White Gays (Duke on 42nd)
Nov. 3--Kyoto (LCT/Newhouse)
Nov. 5--Queens (MTC/City Center)
Nov. 6--Rob Lake Magic with Special Guests The Muppets (Broadhurst)
Nov. 7--Gruesome Playground Injuries (Lortel)
Nov. 9--The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire (Vineyard)
Nov. 10--Queen of Versailles (St. James)
Nov. 10--Richard II (Red Bull/Astor Place)
Nov. 11--The Baker's Wife (CSC)
Nov. 12--Archduke (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
Nov. 13--Oedipus (Roundabout/Studio 54)
Nov. 13--The Seat of Our Pants (Public)
Nov. 16--Chess (Imperial)
Nov. 17--The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (New World Stages)
Nov. 17--Meet the Cartozians (Second Stage/Signature Center)
Nov. 18--This World of Tomorrow (Shed)
Nov. 18--Practice (Playwrights Horizons)
Nov. 20--Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) (Longacre)
Nov. 20--Initiative (Public)
Cottonfield
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Sugar Daddy
Winter 2025-26
Dec. 4--A Christmas Carol (Perelman Performing Arts Center)
Dec. 8--Marjorie Prime (Second Stage/Hayes)
Dec. 11--Anna Christie (St. Ann's Warehouse)
Dec. 16--Tartuffe (NYTW)
Dec. 18--Amahl and the Night Visitors (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
Jan. 8--Bug (MTC/Samuel J. Friedman)
Jan. 2026--Ulysses (Elevator Repair Service/Public)
Feb. 1--Coriolanus (TFANA) (previews begin; opening TBA)
Feb. 11--Monsters (MTC/City Center)
Feb. 25--Meat Suit, or the shitshow of motherhood (Second Stage/Signature Theater)
February--Marcel on the Train (CSC)
February--Bigfoot! the Musical (MTC/City Center)
Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) (Public)
Chinese Republicans (Roundabout/Laura Pels)
The Dinosaurs (Playwrights Horizons)
Jesa (Public)
Public Charge (Public)
The Reservoir (Atlantic Theater Company)
Mother Russia (Signature Theater Company)
2026
Dolly: An Original Musical
Wanted (formerly Gun and Powder)
Spring 2026
March 5--What We Did Before Our Moth Days (Greenwich House Theater)
March 10--Cold War Choir Practice (MCC)
March 11--Giant (previews begin; opening date and theater TBA)
March 23--Hamlet (Teatro La Plaza/TFANA)
March 30--Dog Day Afternoon (August Wilson)
April 7--Cats: The Jellicle Ball (Broadhurst)
April 8--Becky Shaw (Second Stage/Hayes)
April 16--Proof (Theater TBA)
April 20--Schmigadoon (Nederlander)
April 26--The Lost Boys (Palace)
May 7--The Receptionist (Second Stage/Signature Center)
May--The Emporium (CSC)
: Girls : Chance : Music (Vineyard Theater)
Animal Wisdom (Signature Theater Company)
The Balusters (MTC/Friedman)
Fallen Angels (Roundabout/Todd Haimes)
Indian Princesses (Atlantic Theater Co.)
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Montauk
My Joy Is Heavy (NYTW)
No Singing in the Navy (Playwrights Horizons)
Rheology (Playwrights Horizons)
The Rocky Horror Show (Roundabout/Studio 54)
2026-27
Death of a Salesman
Let the Good Times Roll: A New Orleans Gumbo
Private Lives
Summer 2026
June 24--Birthright (MCC)
July 14--The Whoopi Monologues (LCT/Mitzi Newhouse)
Fall 2026
Dreamgirls
Future--10 Things I Hate About You; Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death; Beaches the Musical; Beat Street; Black Orpheus; Coal Miner's Daughter; Come Fall in Love--The DDLJ Musical; Crazy Rich Asians; The Devil Wears Prada; Ella: An American Miracle; Eurovision Song Contest; Everybody's Talking About Jamie; Fahrenheit 451; Fire and Rain: The James Taylor Musical; Frida, the Musical; Game of Thrones; Get Happy; The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation; High Noon; Imitation of Life; The Interestings; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; The Karate Kid; La La Land; The Mousetrap; Nancy Drew and the Mystery at Spotlight Manor; The Nanny; The Normal Heart/The Destiny of Me; Pal Joey; Particle Fever; Purple Rain; The Queen's Gambit; Rear Window; The Secret Garden; Sing Street; Slumdog Millionaire; Soul Train; Studio 54; Waking Ned Devine; Working Girl.
2025-26 Broadway Season Breakdown
New Plays
The Balusters
Call Me Izzy
Cottonfield
Dog Day Afternoon
Giant
Liberation (transfer from Off-Broadway)
Little Bear Ridge Road
Montauk
Oedipus
Punch
New Musicals
Dolly: An Original Musical
The Lost Boys
Schmigadoon
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
Queen of Versailles
Play Revivals
Art
Becky Shaw
Bug
Fallen Angels
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Marjorie Prime
Proof
Waiting for Godot
Musical Revivals
Beetlejuice
Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Chess
Mamma Mia!
Ragtime
The Rocky Horror Show
Solos/Specialties
Jeffrey Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride
Rob Lake Magic with Special Guests The Muppets
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