Cats: The Jellicle Ball

Cast

Co-director Zhailon Levingston first encountered Cats as a child watching the 1998 filmed recording, and during the pandemic began developing a production where the characters were "cats" in a colloquial slang sense. PAC NYC artistic director Bill Rauch had independently arrived at a similar queer-lens concept, initially imagining Grizabella as an older gay man singing "Memory" alone in a bar before the two converged on a ball as the setting. Rauch and Levingston did not initially know about each other's parallel ideas. Levingston learned of Rauch's plans and directly asked to join as co-director via Zoom.

Main Run

• Perelman Arts Center (New York, NY)
  June 20, 2024 - September 8, 2024