Broadway's 'Cats: The Jellicle Ball' Praised for Queer Ballroom Reinvention
Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Cats' receives a fresh and fierce update on Broadway, reimagined as 'Cats: The Jellicle Ball' and celebrated as an ode to queer ballroom culture.
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Cats: The Jellicle Ball review – ingenious musical revival goes full queer ball
Broadhurst Theatre, New York After a disastrous 2019 movie, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s easily ridiculed 80s smash hit has now been transformed into something thrillingly new One criticism lobbied at the 2019 film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats was that it tried to dress the show up in too much extra stuff. Garish CGI and inelegant sets distracted from what is meant to be the core mission of Cats: to watch talented performers sing and dance as cats. The trick is to keep the show – wh...
By Richard Lawson
Read full article →‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ Broadway Review: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Musical Gets Fresh and Fierce Update as an Ode to Queer Ballroom Culture
Broadway is burning — and that’s something to celebrate. “Cats: The Jellicle Ball,” a refreshed version of the downtown 2024 hit, blazes anew, having made the trek uptown with its extravagance, pride and sense of joy intact. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s now-and-forever musical adaptation of T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” has been transposed to […]
By Varietybrentlang
Read full article →‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ Broadway Review: A Queer, Radiant Reinvention Makes A Lasting Memory
An entirely convincing how-to guide in transforming (rescuing, even) well-trod, beloved material (and, yes, the musical that gave us “Memory” is beloved, every bit as much as it is mocked) into something bracing and resplendent, Cats: The Jellicle Ball is that rare thing: A classic stage property reimagined not as stark and gloomy minimalism (see […]
By Greg Evans
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