Cats tour – first look photos released

Cats has released photos as it heads indoors for a new tour.

The production, presented by Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals, follows the record-breaking run of the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre revival, directed and choreographed by Drew McOnie.

Featuring music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and based on Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T S Eliot, it has performances scheduled through to June 2027.

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The touring company features Fin Adams (Alonzo), Kalisha Amaris (Old Deuteronomy), Carla Bertran (Electra and co-dance captain), Elliot Broadfoot (Bustopher Jones / Gus), Grace Burrows (offstage swing), Matthew Caputo (Skimbleshanks), Josie Chambers-Sims (Syllabub), Briana Craig (Rumpleteazer), Katie Dunsden (Bombalurina), Joshua-Samuel Freeman (Tumblebrutus), Regan Garcia (Pouncival), Aaron Jenkins (offstage swing), Hannah Joseph (Victoria), Taziva-Faye Katsande (Tantomile), Diante Lodge (Macavity), Shona Mairi Masson (offstage swing), Owen McHugh (George), Danny Nattrass (Mungojerrie), Millie O’Connell (Demeter), Andrew Parfitt (Coricopat), Dean Rickards (offstage swing), Nathan Rigg (offstage swing), Lucie-Mae Sumner (Jellylorum / Griddlebone), Laura Tyrer (Jennyanydots / Gumbie Cat), Jaydon Vijn (Rum Tum Tugger), Jack Wilcox (Munkustrap), Jet Yau (Mr Mistoffelees), Taela Yeomans-Brown (offstage swing and co-dance captain), and Patricia Zhou (Cassandra).

In a feline twist, Louise Dearman, Alice Fearn and Rachael Wooding will share the role of Grizabella. Dearman is scheduled to appear in Plymouth, Birmingham, Bristol, Norwich, and Edinburgh. Fearn will play Grizabella in Llandudno, Glasgow, Nottingham, Canterbury, Sunderland, Aberdeen, Belfast, Dublin, Oxford, Southampton, Bradford, Liverpool, Woking, Cardiff,  Milton Keynes, and Newcastle. Wooding, who played the part in London, reprises the role in Hull and Manchester.

Tour dates can be found here.

The creative team includes set, costume and wigs designer Sami Fendall, lighting designer Jessica Hung Han Yun, sound designer Adam Fisher, makeup designer Guy Common, intimacy director Ingrid Mackinnon, voice coach Fiona McDougal, associate director and choreographer Ebony Molina, fight director Kev McCurdy, casting director Will Burton and musical supervisor Alex Parker.

Also on the creative team are associate lighting designer Lucy Adams, resident director and choreographer Josh Baker, associate set designer Tim Blazdell, associate sound designer Ollie Durrant, associate wigs and hair designer and supervisor Georgia Nosal and musical director Geraint Owen.