Broadway is burning — and that’s something to celebrate.
“Cats: The Jellicle Ball,” a refreshed version of the downtown 2024 hit, blazes anew, having made the trek uptown with its extravagance, pride and sense of joy intact.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s now-and-forever musical adaptation of T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” has been transposed to the world of Harlem’s Black and Latino queer ballroom culture — the same scene as the 1990 documentary “Paris Is Burning” and television’s “Pose.” But here, “Jellicle Ball” has a different human breed of cool cats across the binary spectrum. They are part of the underground community of drag houses whose members compete
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