Review: ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ on Broadway has so much love, it gives you hope

'Cats: The Jellicle Ball' Broadway Review: Andrew Lloyd Webber Finally Discovers Drag

The drag-ballroom documentary “Paris Is Burning” opened in 1990, eight years after Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats” debuted on Broadway. Those two very unlikely bed fellows now meet, and their love child proves only one thing: gay and trans people of color have just as bad taste in show tunes as all the white straight people who turned the original “Cats” into the McDonald’s of musicals. The new “Cats” carries the subhead “The Jellicle Ball,” and th…

Review: ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ on Broadway has so much love, it gives you hope

“Cats: The Jellicle Ball” loves Andrew Lloyd Webber's “Cats,” even to the point of reverence. More importantly, it respects the “Cats” audience, a thing since 1981.

'Jellicle Ball' will convert even the biggest ‘Cats’ haters – Review

Andrew Lloyd Webber's polarizing Broadway hit has been spectacularly reimagined as a feline fantasia set in New York's queer ballroom scene.

Cats: The Jellicle Ball Is the Real Thing

‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ is the real thing: The downtown drag ball comes to Broadway miraculously unscathed.

'Cats: The Jellicle Ball' Broadway Review: A Big, Beautiful Memory

An entirely convincing how-to guide in transforming (rescuing, even) well-trod, beloved material (and, yes, the musical that gave us “Memory” is beloved, every bit as much as it is mocked) into something bracing and resplendent, Cats: The Jellicle Ball is that rare thing: A classic stage property reimagined not as stark and gloomy minimalism (see Daniel Fish’s Oklahoma or Jamie Lloyd’s Sunset Blvd.) but as a big, joyous glitter bomb. Dressing …

‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ Broadway Review: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Musical Gets Fresh and Fierce Update as an Ode to Queer Ballroom Culture

Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Cats: The Jellicle Ball' has survived its move uptown to Broadway with its fresh and feisty spirit intact.