It’s 40 years since Cats opened at the Theatre Royal Sydney, so it’s purrfect that the 40th-anniversary Australian tour begins in the same venue, before seasons in Adelaide and Melbourne. Based on TS Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical opened at the New London Theatre in 1981, where it ran for 21 years. It has since been staged in over 50 countries. This time around, Grizabella, the ostracised former “glamour cat”, will be played by Gabriyel Thomas who was recently seen in Sister Act. Todd McKenney, who played Tumblebrutus in the original Australian production, returns as Bustopher Jones and Gus the Theatre Cat, with Mark Vincent as Old Deuteronomy and Lucy Maunder as Jellylorum. Let the memory live (yet) again.

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Experience the 40th Australian anniversary of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s record-breaking musical Cats, returning to Theatre Royal Sydney from June.

Adapted from TS Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, this “groundbreaking musical” (Daily Express) comes together in a sparkling fusion of music, dance and verse.

On just one special night of the year, all Jellicle cats meet at the Jellicle Ball where Old Deuteronomy, their wise and benevolent leader, makes the Jellicle choice and announces which of them will go up to The Heaviside Layer and be reborn into a whole new Jellicle life.

With “timeless music, spectacular sets and a superb cast” (Daily Mirror), breathtaking choreography and of course the unforgettable Memory, Cats is a magical musical like no other.

Let Cats thrill you once again!