# ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ Will End Its Broadway Run in August

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/cats-the-jellicle-ball-will-end-its-broadway-run-in-august/
- Published: 2026-07-14T10:32:05+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-14T16:47:13+00:00
- Original publisher: The Hollywood Reporter
- Original article: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/cats-the-jellicle-ball-broadway-closing-date-1236643213/
- Topics: Entertainment, Geopolitics, Music, Politics

## Key points

- Cats: The Jellicle Ball closed on Broadway 8 August after five months
- Strong reviews and Tony wins couldn't offset high running costs
- First Tony-nominated show this season to close early post-ceremony

## Summary

Cats: The Jellicle Ball, the Broadway revival that reimagined Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical through the lens of Harlem ballroom culture, closed on 8 August after roughly five months at the Broadhurst Theatre. Despite strong reviews and healthy attendance, its weekly box office of around $1 million (roughly £790,000) proved insufficient to cover the running costs of a large-scale production, making it the first Tony-nominated show this season to announce an early closure following the June ceremony.

The production opened on Broadway on 7 April after a sold-out Off-Broadway run in 2024, having reimagined each Jellicle cat as a human competitor walking the runway in categories such as voguing and beauty, with a cast and creative team drawn from both the ballroom scene and Broadway. It won Tony Awards for best direction, choreography and costume design, though it lost best musical revival to Ragtime, and, capitalised at up to $18 million (about £14.2 million), never announced recoupment. Directed by Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch with choreography by Omari Wiles and Arturo Lyons, the show featured guest judges including Lin-Manuel Miranda and Anna Wintour, and its production was filmed by the New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive for permanent preservation.

## Coverage

- [The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ Will End Its Broadway Run in August](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/cats-the-jellicle-ball-broadway-closing-date-1236643213/)
- [Variety: u2018Cats: The Jellicle Ballu2019 Ending Broadway Run in August](https://variety.com/2026/legit/news/cats-the-jellicle-ball-ending-broadway-run-early-1236810127/)

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