PRESS RELEASE
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s
BIRMINGHAM HOSTS THE JELLICLE BALL ON ITS LAST STOP AHEAD OF A RETURN TO LONDON’S WEST END…
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s CATS returns to Birmingham Hippodrome Tuesday 9 – Saturday 27 September 2014 on its last stop of a current UK tour before returning to London’s West End for a limited run at the iconic London Palladium.
CATS first opened in the West End on 11 May 1981 and ran for a record breaking 21 years playing almost 9,000 performances. On Broadway it ran for an amazing 18 years and has been performed in over 300 cities in 26 countries. The global phenomenon has now been seen by over fifty million people worldwide.
Zizi Strallen takes the role of Demeter in the current cast, following in the footsteps of her parents Sandy Strallen and Cherida Langford, her sister Summer Strallen and her aunt, Bonnie Langford who have all trod the boards in the same production.
CATS is directed by Trevor Nunn, with choreography by Gillian Lynne and set and costume design by John Napier. Re-creating the direction and choreography for the tour is Chrissie Cartwright.
Re-creating the direction and choreography for the tour is Chrissie Cartwright.
Based on T.S Eliot’s ‘Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats’, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s record- breaking CATS tells the story of how 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.
The infamous score includes one of Lloyd Webber’s most famous melodies, Memory, made famous by stage actress and originator of the role of Grizabella, Elaine Paige.
CATS has featured some of this country’s most famous stage performers including Elaine Paige (‘Grizabella’), Wayne Sleep (‘Mungojerrie’), Bonnie Langford (‘Rumpleteazer’), Paul Nicholas (‘Rum Tum Tugger’), Brian Blessed (‘Old Deuteronomy’), Sarah Brightman (‘Jemima‘) and Rosemarie Ford (‘Bombalurina’ & ‘Grizabella’).
The 2013/14 tour of the Cameron Mackintosh and The Really Useful Theatre production of CATS is again presented by David Ian.
CATS purr-forms at Birmingham Hippodrome
Tuesday 9 – Saturday 27 September 2014
Tickets £17.50-£42.50*
Performance Times; Mon – Sat eves 7.30pm
Wed Mats 2pm
Sat Mats 2.30pm
*5% fee applies, postage from £1, calls cost from 5p per min. Prices and discounting subject to change.
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