‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ Will Finish Its Broadway Run Aug. 8

Cats: The Jellicle Ball will play its remaining efficiency on Aug. 8, after about 5 months on Broadway. 

The musical revival opened on the Broadhurst Theatre April 7, after a sold-out Off-Broadway run in 2024. While the revival was additionally critically acclaimed on Broadway and attendance has been comparatively excessive, its $1 million or so weekly field workplace tally has not been capable of compete with the excessive working prices for a big musical.

The musical additionally took dwelling Tony Awards for greatest route of a musical, choreography and costume design, however didn’t win the Tony for greatest revival of a musical, which went to Ragtime (a restricted run, which has seen its field workplace soar pre-and post-Tony wins). This is the primary nominated present to announce an early closing after this 12 months’s June 7 Tony Awards ceremony.

The revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical reimagines the ‘80s traditional within the type of the Harlem ballroom scene, the place every cat is now a human competitor strolling the runway and competing in classes like voguing and wonder. The solid and artistic staff are made up of members from the ballroom scene and from Broadway.

The musical was capitalized for as much as $18 million, in line with securities filings, and has not introduced recoupment. Michael Harrison and Mike Bosner are the lead producers of the present, which additionally contains celeb coproducers together with Cynthia Erivo, Law Roach and Lena Waithe. Throughout the run, the present has additionally welcomed celeb visitor judges, who’ve included Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lloyd Webber, Anna Wintour, Marc Jacobs, Bowen Yang and extra.

“Three years ago, Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch began the remarkable process of reimagining Cats for a new generation. They assembled a visionary creative team that fused their passions for ballroom and theater to create something thrillingly new. With a truly superhuman cast bringing this vision to life, New York has once again discovered the phenomenon that has become Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats: The Jellicle Ball. The joy that radiates from the stage each night is unlike anything we’ve experienced in our careers. It has been a true honor to help bring ballroom to Broadway,” Harrison and Bosner stated in an announcement.

The manufacturing will probably be filmed by the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts later this month and added to its assortment.

Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch direct the musical, which options choreography by Omari Wiles and Arturo Lyons. The 30-person solid options a mixture of stars from Broadway and the ballroom scene, together with André De Shields as Old Deuteronomy, Junior LaBeija as Gus, “Tempress” Chasity Moore as Grizabella, Sydney Harcourt as Rum Tum Tugger, Emma Sofia as Skimbleshanks and Robert “Silk” Mason as Magical Mister Mistoffles.