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My relationship and connection to music is the reason I dance,” says Primo, a 27-year-old dancer and performer who just wrapped up his run as Tumblebrutus in Cats: The Jellicle Ball, at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in New York City. Although he didn’t begin his dance training in earnest until age 14, a childhood immersed in musical theater and church services punctuated with gospel music equipped Primo with a refined sense of musicality.

The gist of the new musical “The Jellicle Ball” makes so much sense it seems inevitable in retrospect: a reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s enduring Broadway hit “Cats,” in the world of vogue dance and ballroom culture, à la “Paris Is Burning” and “Pose.”

Suffering from Cats-scratch fever after watching that tantalizing trailer all weekend? Eager to know more about the feline-filled film? The new Cats movie famously features artists new to musical theater, from Royal Ballet principal Francesca Hayward to commercial dance sensations Les Twins to, you know, Taylor Swift. But the casting team didn’t ignore the show’s […]

There are two phases of everyone’s life: before seeing Cats and after seeing Cats. Starting today, with the release of a new film version of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s hit musical, millions of viewers will enter into this second phase of life, and a new generation of people with “Memory” stuck in their head will arise. […]

Calling all Cats fans! If you live near Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, Nashville or Greenville, we’d love to treat you to a sneak peak of the Cats feature film. In anticipation of the movie’s December 20 nationwide premiere, these five cities are hosting advance screenings on Tuesday, December 17, at 7 pm. We’ll get you in—for […]

Get excited, Jellicle fans: It’s almost time meow! We’re about a month out from the release of the new movie version of Cats. To mark the occasion, the film’s team has dropped another dance-filled trailer. The video offers further peeks at Andy Blankenbuehler‘s choreography—and at the “digital fur technology”-enhanced versions of the celebrities involved, from […]

Jellicle obsessives, rejoice: There’s a new video out that offers a (surprisingly substantive) look at the dancing that went down on the set of the new CATS movie. It’s truly got everything. Francesca Hayward giving all kinds of gorgeous legs! Andy Blankenbuehler making several very intense faces! Les Twins being superhuman! Judi Dench giggling with […]

If the news about the upcoming CATS movie has your head spinning, we’re right there with you. It seems like every week we have a bit more to share about the new film adaptation, which is set to release in December 2019. So, in order to keep it all straight, we present you with our […]