Early Closing Of ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ Shines Spotlight On Risky Business Of Broadway Musicals

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Sara Ramirez calls it heartbreaking, Ben Platt says it’s a travesty and Rachel Zegler offered a succinct WTF. They and other Broadway performers and fans are reacting to the closing announcement of Cats: The Jellicle Ball, the critically lauded reinvention of Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s now-and-forever musical that moves the feline action from the alley to Harlem’s Ballroom culture. No one, though, seems angrier or sadder than Lloyd Webber himself, who took to Instagram to lament the closing.

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