how long did the musical cats run on broadway
Cats (musical) As of 2016, Cats is the fourth-longest-running show in Broadway history, and was the longest running Broadway show in history from 1997 until 2006 when it was surpassed by The Phantom of the Opera. Cats is the sixth-longest-running West End musical. It has been performed around the world many times and has been translated into more than 20 languages. In 1998, Cats was turned into a made-for-television film.
Andrew Lloyd Webber Lloyd Webber embarked on his next project without a lyricist, turning instead to the poetry of T. S. Eliot. Cats (1981) was to become the longest running musical in London, where it ran for 21 years before closing. On Broadway, Cats ran for 18 years, a record which would ultimately be broken by another Lloyd Webber musical, The Phantom of the Opera.[20][21]
Avenue Q After the show closed on Broadway, it reopened in New York at the New World Stages complex on October 9, 2009, where it is still running today.[33]
Is It Fall Yet? The film chronicles the characters' summer break between seasons four and five.