Overview
- Producers announced on Monday that Cats: The Jellicle Ball will play its final Broadway performance on Saturday, August 8, after roughly five months at the Broadhurst Theatre.
- The revival won three 2026 Tony Awards for direction, choreography, and costume design but saw weekly grosses fall from about $900,000–$1 million to under $700,000 in recent weeks.
- The production canceled a July 13 performance for company illnesses and has not reported recoupment against a capitalization reported up to $18 million.
- The show will be filmed later in July by the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive for the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts to preserve the staging.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber has publicly urged theatre owners, unions, and producers to act, saying the closure underscores rising mounting and running costs that threaten the ability of new musicals and their creators to survive on Broadway.