While the musical "Cats" premiered in 1981 ... and others were created specifically for the Broadway show. While there is a poem about Jellicle cats, the term dates back even further.

But the show delighted audiences in London, on Broadway and beyond ... however, Cats lacked the crucial ingredient of all successful musicals: a hit song. Mackintosh needed it.

Cats premiered in London in 1982 and on Broadway a year later ... telling his newly appointed board that he didn’t like the musical at first glance and thought to “get out” when he saw ...

Cats: "The Jellicle Ball" is a radical reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic dance musical based on T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. Inspired by the Ballroom culture ...

Cats” is on the prowl in Springfield, the type that transforms humans into singing and dancing felines through the magic of the stage.

Thankfully, it also isn’t “Cats,” although there are ... The Lion King” (Nov. 19-30): The Disney musical is still going strong on Broadway despite having opened in 1997.