{"id":169831,"date":"2026-03-21T00:55:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T00:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/169831\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T00:55:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T00:55:35","slug":"see-photos-from-first-preview-of-cats-the-jellicle-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/169831\/","title":{"rendered":"See Photos From First Preview of Cats: The Jellicle Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1828842\" title=\"Andr\u00e9 De Shields (\u00a9 Andy Henderson)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20.-Andre-de-Shields_by-Andy-Henderson.jpg\" alt=\"Andr\u00e9 De Shields (\u00a9 Andy Henderson)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"  \/>Andr\u00e9 De Shields <br \/>(\u00a9 Andy Henderson, Cats: The Jellicle Ball on Broadway)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatermania.com\/shows\/new-york-city-theater\/broadway\/cats-the-jellicle-ball_1806850\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cats: The Jellicle Ball<\/a> had its first preview last night, March 18, at the Broadhurst Theatre.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1828849\" title=\"DJ Bill Coleman (\u00a9 Andy Henderson)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/25.-DJ-Bill-Coleman_by-Andy-Henderson.jpg\" alt=\"DJ Bill Coleman (\u00a9 Andy Henderson)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"  \/>DJ Bill Coleman <br \/>(\u00a9 Andy Henderson, Cats: The Jellicle Ball on Broadway)<\/p>\n<p>The cast celebrated the first preview with \u201cThe King of Vogue\u201d Dashaun Wesley and DJ Bill Coleman hosting a post-performance runway show outside the theater.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1828850\" title=\"Dashaun Wesley (\u00a9 Andy Henderson)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/28.-Dashaun-Wesley_by-Andy-Henderson.jpg\" alt=\"Dashaun Wesley (\u00a9 Andy Henderson)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"  \/>Dashaun Wesley <br \/>(\u00a9 Andy Henderson, Cats: The Jellicle Ball on Broadway)<\/p>\n<p>The Broadway cast includes Tony and Grammy Award winner Andr\u00e9 De Shields as Old Deuteronomy, Ken Ard as DJ Griddlebone, Kya Azeen as Etcetera, Bryson Battle as Jellylorum, Sherrod T. Brown, Jonathan Burke as Mungojerrie, Baby Byrne as Victoria, Tara Lashan Clinkscales, Bryce Farris, Sydney James Harcourt as Rum Tum Tugger, Dava Huesca as Rumpleteazer, Dudney Joseph Jr. as Munkustrap, Junior LaBeija as Gus, Leiomy as Macavity, Robert \u201cSilk\u201d Mason as Magical Mister Mistoffelees, \u201cTempress\u201d Chasity Moore as Grizabella, Primo Thee Ballerino as Tumblebrutus, Xavier Reyes as Jennyanydots, Nora Schell as Bustopher Jones, Bebe Nicole Simpson as Demeter, Emma Sofia as Cassandra\/Skimbleshanks, Phumzile Sojola, Kendall Grayson Stroud, B. Noel Thomas, Kalyn West, Dont\u00e9 Nadir Wilder, Garnet Williams as Bombalurina, and Teddy Wilson Jr. as Sillabub.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1828851\" title=\"Bryce Farris (\u00a9 Andy Henderson\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/39.-Bryce-Farris_by-Andy-Henderson.jpg\" alt=\"Bryce Farris (\u00a9 Andy Henderson\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"  \/>Bryce Farris <br \/>(\u00a9 Andy Henderson, Cats: The Jellicle Ball on Broadway)<\/p>\n<p>Cats: The Jellicle Ball, is directed by OBIE Award winners Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch and choreographed by Chita Rivera Award winners Omari Wile and Arturo Lyons. The music is by Andrew Lloyd Webber and is based on Old Possum\u2019s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1828852\" title=\"Sydney James Harcourt (\u00a9 Andy Henderson)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/50.-Sydney-James-Harcourt_by-Andy-Henderson.jpg\" alt=\"Sydney James Harcourt (\u00a9 Andy Henderson)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"  \/>Sydney James Harcourt <br \/>(\u00a9 Andy Henderson, Cats: The Jellicle Ball on Broadway)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andr\u00e9 De Shields (\u00a9 Andy Henderson, Cats: The Jellicle Ball on Broadway) Cats: The Jellicle Ball had its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-169831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}