'Cats: The Jellicle Ball' completes Broadway cast

Four new principal cast members and more join the previously announced actors starring in the transfer of Andrew Lloyd Webber's reimagined musical.

Summary

• Ken Ard; Bryson Battle; Kya Azeen; Leiomy; and more join the Broadway cast of Cats: The Jellicle Ball
• The musical revival reimagines Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats within a queer ballroom competition
• The new cast members join numerous returning actors from the production's award-winning Off-Broadway premiere

Meow! Cats: The Jellicle Ball has completed its Broadway cast ahead of its first performance at the Broadhurst Theatre on March 18. Opening night is April 7.

Newly announced principal cast members include Ken Ard, who played Macavity in the original 1982 Broadway cast of Cats, as DJ Griddlebone; Kya Azeen as Etcetera; Bryson Battle as Jellylorum, and “The Wonder Woman of Vogue” Leiomy as Macavity.

Phumzile Sojola and Kalyn West also join the ensemble, and Sherrod T. Brown, Bryce Farris, B. Noel Thomas, Kendall Grayson Stroud, and Donté Nadir Wilder are swings.

They join the previously announced André De Shields as Old Deuteronomy, Jonathan Burke as Mungojerrie, Baby Byrne as Victoria, Sydney James Harcourt as Rum Tum Tugger, Dava Huesca as Rumpleteazer, Dudney Joseph Jr. as Munkustrap, Junior LaBeija as Gus, Robert “Silk” Mason as Magical Mister Mistoffelees, “Tempress” Chasity Moore as Grizabella, Primo as Tumblebrutus, Xavier Reyes as Jennyanydots, Nora Schell as Bustopher Jones, Bebe Nicole Simpson as Demeter, Emma Sofia as Cassandra/Skimbleshanks, Garnet Williams as Bombalurina, Teddy Wilson, Jr. as Sillabub, and Tara Lashan Clinkscales.

Adapted from the poems of T.S. Eliot, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats is reimagined within the queer ballroom scene in Cats: The Jellicle Ball. Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch direct, and Omari Wiles and Arturo Lyons choreograph.

Cats: The Jellicle Ball previously ran off Broadway in 2024 to rave reviews; our critic called it "one of the best musicals, revival or otherwise, to be staged in New York."

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Photo credit: Ken Ard, Kya Azeen, Bryson Battle, and Leiomy. (Photos courtesy of prodiction; Azeen photo by Miguel Herrera; Battle photo by Wesley Verge; Leiomy photo by Naq Lee