Inside the Raucous Opening Night of ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’
“Whatever the other failings and excesses, even banalities, of Cats, it believes in purely theatrical magic, and on that faith it unquestionably delivers,” Frank Rich wrote in 1982, when Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats premiered at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York. His review proved somewhat prophetic: Cats would become…
bubmagApril 8, 2026