CATS: West End Revival to Tour Australia
Following its season in London’s West End, the revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s record-breaking musical CATS comes to Australia for a strictly limited season, opening in Sydney on 30 October 2015 then touring to Hobart, Melbourne and Brisbane. Tickets go on sale on Friday 24 April. CATS is touring to Adelaide and Perth in 2016 with dates and booking information to be released at a later date.
The hit revival, which was reworked for the most recent season in the West End by the original creative team - Director Trevor Nunn, Choreographer & Associate Director Gillian Lynne, Set Designer John Napier and Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber – received excellent reviews and extended its season due to overwhelming demand.
The 2015 Olivier Award-nominated CATS introduces a rapping ‘street cat’ in the famous Rum Tum Tugger role, who performs some serious breakdancing moves.
“I’ve come to the conclusion that having read Eliot again, maybe Eliot was the inventor of rap”, says Lloyd Webber.
Based on T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, the show is set amongst a larger-than-life junkyard playground and is alive with our favourite feline characters including Rum Tum Tugger, Mr. Mistoffelees, Macavity, Jennyanydots, Old Deuteronomy, Grizabella and Skimbleshanks.
The Jellicle Cats come out to play on one special night of the year – the night of the Jellicle Ball. One by one they tell their stories for the amusement of Old Deuteronomy, their wise and benevolent leader, who must choose one of the Cats to ascend to The Heaviside Layer and be reborn into a whole new Jellicle life.
CATS, one of the longest-running shows in West End and Broadway history, received its world premiere at the New London Theatre in 1981 where it played for 21 record-breaking years and almost 9,000 performances. The ground-breaking production was the winner of the Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Musical. In 1983 the Broadway production became the recipient of seven Tony awards including Best Musical, and ran for 18 years.
Since its world premiere, CATS has been presented in over 30 countries, has been translated into 15 languages and has been seen by more than 73 million people worldwide. Both the original London and Broadway cast recordings won Grammy Awards for Best Cast Album.
The musical score composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, includes the hit song ‘Memory’, which has been recorded by over 150 artists from Barbra Streisand and Johnny Mathis to Liberace and Barry Manilow.
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Cats was originally produced by Cameron Mackintosh and The Really Useful Group Limited.
SEASON DETAILS
SYDNEY
Venue: Capitol Theatre
Dates: From Friday 30 October 2015
Times: Wednesday 1pm & 8pm; Thursday 8pm; Friday 8pm
Saturday 2pm & 8 pm; Sunday 1pm & 6pm
Prices: from $74.90 (transaction fees may apply)
Bookings: Ticketmaster 136 100 or ticketmaster.com.au
Groups 12+ SAVE! Call Group Bookings on1300 889 278
HOBART
Venue: Derwent Entertainment Centre
Dates: From Thursday 10 December – Sunday 13 December 2015
6 performances only!
Times: Thursday 8pm; Friday 8pm
Saturday 2pm & 8 pm; Sunday 1pm & 6pm
Prices: from $79.90 (transaction fees may apply)
Bookings: Ticketmaster 136 100 or ticketmaster.com.au
Groups 12+ SAVE! Call Group Bookings on1300 889 278
MELBOURNE
Venue: Regent Theatre
Dates: From Friday 18 December 2015
Times: Wednesday 1pm & 8pm; Thursday 8pm; Friday 8pm
Saturday 2pm & 8 pm; Sunday 1pm & 6pm
Please note that there will be no performances on Friday, 25 December 2015
and Friday, 1 January 2016.
Please go to Ticketmaster for special holiday week schedules.
Prices: from $74.90 (transaction fees may apply)
Bookings: Ticketmaster 136 100 or ticketmaster.com.au
Groups 12+ SAVE! Call Group Bookings on1300 889 278
BRISBANE
Venue: Lyric Theatre, QPAC
Dates: From Friday 29 January 2016
Times: Wednesday 1pm & 8pm; Thursday 8pm; Friday 8pm
Saturday 2pm & 8 pm; Sunday 1pm & 6pm
Prices: from $74.90 (transaction fees may apply)
Bookings: QPAC 136 246 or qpac.com.au
Groups 12+ SAVE! Call Group Bookings on(07) 3840 7466
ADELAIDE
Dates From March 2016 – Details coming soon
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PERTH
Dates From April 2016 – Details coming soon
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