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CATS is coming back... outside?! | Thoughts on the revival of Cats at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
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Mayra Amit
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If your small business has a problem, you could say, ugh, just my luck. But you should say, like a good neighbor, State Farm is there and we'll help get you back in business. Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. Up until yesterday, outdoor cats just meant a type of feline pet that you permit to go outdoors independently. But now it is my latest fascination, my most important plan for summer 2026 and my my new personality. Oh my God. Meow. Welcome back to my theatre themed YouTube channel. Or hello to you if you are listening to this exciting and very important update on podcast platforms. My name is Mickey Jo. I am a professional theatre critic, a content creator, a theatre obsessive and a cats apologist. That is correct. I will defend the musical until the day that I ascend to the Heaviside Lair. Not Cats, the. The movie. I didn't say that. Don't put words in my whiskers. But I am among the generation, perhaps that grew up watching CA the musical on vhs. The one recorded as a pro shot in the theatre at my grandmother's house. It was one of my gateway drugs to musical theatre. And like actual gateway drugs, it does, as a piece of theatre, prompt something of a psychedelic reaction. One that blurs the lines in your understanding of fantasy and reality. Anyway, I am here today to let you know that a brand new professional production of Cats has been announced for London in summer 2026. And this is no ordinary production. This is not just going to be a return of traditional cats as it what I have taken to calling Trad wife Cats, if you got that reference. You also spend too much time on the Internet. But no, amidst a slew of different productions of Cats a Litter, might we say this is going to be Cats staged outdoors in the open air at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, directed and choreographed by the venue's new artistic director, Drew McHoney. Which is an incredibly exciting prospect and what I will tell you more about right now, I'm going to be sharing my thoughts and insights with you about this production and giving you a sense of what we can expect. But as always, I would love to hear your opinions and I know that Cats is a divisive, polarizing musical. Let me know all of your thoughts in the comments section down below. Nobody is forcing you to go to Regent's Park Open Air Theatre to see it, but do you plan to? Are you going to be getting tickets to Cats at Regent's park when they go on sale? Let me know. I'm very curious. In the meantime, if you enjoy listening to my thoughts about this and you would like to hear more updates about West End and Broadway Theatre as well as all of my reviews, make sure to subscribe to my theatre themed YouTube channel or go follow me on podcast platforms. Please don't unsubscribe Just because I said I like Cats, don't tell me I've lost all of my professional legitimacy. It's an abstract dance piece with its own artistic merit. I'm not having this conversation again. Let's talk about it. Cats at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. What the hell is this going to be? So let's talk about this production specifically. Let me read to you from the press release. Best email I've had all week. Here we go. Regent's Park Open Air Theatre with Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals announced a brand new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's theatre Cats to play at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre before a major UK tour. That is an obligatory hand gesture. For those of you watching me right now, it's Cats. So already lots to take in from the headline there. This is a co production between Regent's Park Open Air Theatre as a venue and Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals, which is the fairly recent production venture between Michael Harrison, the producer, and Andrew Lloyd Webber the composer, the producer as well, but who has brought Michael Harrison on to kind of help run that side of things for his productions, allowing him to remain the creative. He's given several interviews about this. We have talked about this extensively and it's a partnership which has already in the last few years, which I'm sure they'll tell us in this press release later on. Given way to a lot of really fantastic productions like Starlight Express running at Troubadour Theatre, Wembley park, like Sunset Boulevard in the West End and on Broadway, like the recent Evita at the London Palladium. But the other thing to note is that they are already announcing that this production is prior to a major UK tour. Now, it's not unheard of for successful musical revivals from Regent's Park Open Air Theatre go on tour. Their record breaking Olivier Award nominated and winning production of Fiddler on the Roof that played last summer or the summer before, the one we've just had, is currently on a UK tour. Their production of Jesus Christ Superstar has been not only on a UK tour, but then traveled to the us. It just recently toured around Australia and rumor has it, Adele, that it might be coming back to the UK in a significant way. You heard it here first. But also, don't tell anyone I told you. Of course, few productions announced for the park are quite as commercially viable as cats. And so it makes sense right off the bat to say this is happening at Regent's park prior to us announcing and unveiling the rest of the season. And also, just so you know, it's gonna go on a UK tour. This is going to be successful and we are telegraphing that from the start. This is going to sell well in London and then regionally. Let us carry on and find out exactly what kind of cats this is going to be. Now we do have, before I get into the text, an image here with the familiar font. The logo is the same as the one I'm currently wearing, my rib cage. But the image that it accompanies is startlingly different in its color scheme, in its composition. We have a human eye on a very sort of human flesh looking face. Like a little warm, a little glowy, but definitely a person whose eyebrow has been blocked out, drag queen style with a more severe one drawn on. And this sort of like tribal tattoo eye makeup moment happening around a little cat eye which creates the image of two human bodies, human, not feline, dancing either side of the eye. In the actual eye itself, in the actual iris, you can see the silhouette of a dancing anthropomorphic figure. Also, that's cat's imagery that they've used for years. People dancing in the eyes. You can sort of see it here. But it's intriguing that sort of thrice over there we are conveying the sense of human Dancers and not cat ones. Is this going to be Cats, where the cats look more like people and we're just saying Cats. It wouldn't be the first production to do that, what with Cats. The Jellicle Ball having recently announced that they are going to transfer to Broadway after their smash hit Off Broadway success downtown. That being a production which has taken the material and the characters of Cats and recontextualized them in the world of ballroom and drag culture through this vibrant, colorful, specific, queer lens. And singing all of the same songs with all of the same lyrics simply uses human characters instead of feline ones. Carrying on Then we have confirmation that this is a brand new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats. So, new production, different. Different choreography, likely a different scenic design, possibly an entire concept. We'll talk more about that. But playing Regents Park Open air Theatre from 25 July to 12 September 2026. Happy birthday to me Before a major UK tour from October 2026, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre with Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals today announced that in summer 2026, a brand new production of Angela Webber's global sensation Cats, currently on an international tour, will leap into the magical outdoor setting of Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. Truthfully, one of my favorite theatrical spaces in the entire world, magical is astoundingly correct. I've said before I would like to see Cats at Regent's Park. There's a lot that really works in that setting. I mean, canonically, they are sort of performing in the open air. It's meant to be set in this junkyard, though increasingly few productions actually are. And confirmation here that this is going to be directed and choreographed by Drew McCone, who, if you don't know, is this phenomenally exciting, creative in the world of dance and in the world of theatrical dance and how that overlaps with musical theatre. His production of Brigadoon at the venue a few months ago was really stunning. I spoke about it in a full review. You, wherever you are seeing or hearing this, if you want to go and check that out. But a lot of the work that Drew has done in contemporary ballet has been really striking, really meaningful, mesmerizingly beautiful. And so the concept of him choreographing a version of Cats and a Drew Makone Jellicle Ball is one of the most exciting things that I could conceive of. If you were to ask me which choreographers in the world I would like to take on Cats prior to this announcement, I would have told you, Drew McHoney. That being said, prior to this announcement, we did know that this news was on its way, I think, because Law Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber had revealed it in an interview. He had said that Cats was happening in open air previously at some point. And it just made sense with Drew McCone having recently been appointed the new artistic director at Regent's park, that he would choose one of the most choreographically rich and exciting musical theatre pieces to produce there. It is also, as this press release points out, the third Angelo Dwebber title produced by the venue in the last 10 years, following the Olivier Award winning revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, for which Drew McHoney was the choreographer in 2016, 2017 and 2020, which is when I saw it, and Evita in 2019. Oh, we actually have some tour dates here as well. So the UK tour is going to last through 2027, opening in Plymouth before visiting Hull, Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, Llandudno and Glasgow, with further venues to be announced. So stay tuned on that front if you would like to see some cats at a venue near you. Of course, by that point, those are all traditional indoor theaters, so the production will no longer be an open with when Jesus Christ Superstar toured, same with the current touring production of Fiddler on the Roof. And it's often the case, almost always really, that these productions, you know, gain something from being in the open air setting, but aren't necessarily reliant on it. I dare say if they were to try and tour Brigadoon, that would have been a little more challenging. Or into the Woods. That actually transferred to the Delacorte Theatre, another open air venue in New York. But it does beg the question, to my mind, what is this version of Cats going to be? What is its identity? What will its aesthetic be? Is there going to be a concept behind this revival? Let us speculate wildly together.
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Now, the reason I ask this question is because something very interesting has happened with the rights to Cats over the last few years. And it began with Cats the Jellicle Bull, which wildly reinterpreted what this material could be. Complete aesthetic pivot, complete upheaval of the location and really the meaning of the show while allowing the clarity of its narrative to still sort of shine through. You may be laughing when I say Cats and clarity of narrative, but I've always understood what it is that they're getting at. They tell you quite plainly. There's a bunch of magical cats. They are meeting up to have a party at the end of which the most deserving gets to die. If you can understand Six, if you can understand Ride the Cyclone. Hell, if you can understand A Chorus Line, you can understand cats. It's literally like, God, I hope I get it. Only getting it in this context means death, which is fine because they have nine lives. They're going to be okay. And since Cats, the Jellicle Ball, for reasons as yet unclear to me, there have been a whole bunch of wildly different productions of Cats, most of which have been high concept these around the United States. There was circus cats at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, Illinois, which I got to go and see, which I have reviewed here. Go and check out my gleeful thoughts about circus cats that was taking place in a big top tent with all of the cats as different members of this circus troupe, incorporating circus choreography and acrobatics and aesthetics. And a trapeze, a literal trapeze. There was also cowboy cats, which I did not see. That will rank as one of the greater regrets of my life, which looked to be more like traditional cats, only they were all wearing cowboy boots and some of them had guns. Can you imagine a production of Cats? But they have guns now, like Mr. Mistoffelees in a country twang, but with guns. Wild. Absolutely wild. Literally wild. And there was also, and I forget where this was a production of Cats, where the set was an abandoned theme park, like an abandoned roller coaster. Walking it actually a few more steps towards Ride the Cyclone. And there's two schools of thought about why this is happening. I don't know whether it's a relaxing of the rites around the time of Jellicle Ball, when the rights holder suddenly said, you can now creatively do a little bit more, like, you can do what you want, you don't have to set it in the traditional location anymore. Or the perhaps more persuasive, there has been a shift in the rights indicating that regional and non replica productions can no longer set it in a junkyard. This is the other thing that I've heard, is that directors, creative teams have been told they are not allowed to use the traditional setting, they must come up with a different setting. And I think that one seems more likely because, you know, what are the chances that they would all simultaneously be like, we're gonna do really different versions of Cats at the same time? Which begs the question, what is the Regent's park one going to be? Because here you have the opportunity to create a production of Cats that is perhaps the closest to the literal version of its setting. But also it is subsequently going to tour around the country to a bunch of different venues. I'm wondering if they are, because of that, going to lean towards something a little less high concept, because you could get away with a really bold and bizarre reinterpretation of Cats with some kind of a different meaning at Regent's Park. But when you open it in Birmingham, when you open it in Plymouth, the audience there are just going to see Cats on the poster, they're just going to see cats in the brochure and they're going to turn up to see cats. It's a little bit of the concern that we have about cats. The Jellicle Ball on Broadway rather than Off Broadway, with a lot of tourists that may just be expecting cats and not cat, kitty cat, cat, cat. And admittedly, even if there isn't some kind of a high concept creatively behind this production, the notion of doing cats outdoors remains very exciting to me. Not that this is the first time that that has happened, because I do believe that the Muni Theatre has done a production of Cats before. I think Stephanie J Block was Grizabella, if I'm remembering correctly. And also it's happened at another outdoor theatre in the uk. Kilworth House did a production of Cats. The key creative aspect of which, to my recollection, I didn't see it, but I saw production images, was that it was sort of traditional cat costuming, but wearing pieces of clothing over the top. So it was like Rum Tum Tugga with a jacket and a hat like Kind of a combination between the more anthropomorphic, humanized look and the cat, which is something that I actually entirely endorse because we are meant to understand from the beginning that these are Jellicle cats. These are not your everyday cats. This is a particular kind of cat. And yet I keep coming back to this artwork and this very humanized version of it. This color and this flesh tone is really what is leaping out at me and the tribal tattoo of it all. And there have been specifically Regent's park revivals of Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals in the past, whose artwork has been explicitly misleading. But it also wouldn't surprise me if we were going for a slightly more bohemian aesthetic. It's going to be really interesting to see how these costumes work. I don't know if they have a sort of quiet plan in the back of their mind for the production to extend like Fiddler on the Roof did, but a problem that Fiddler had was having to adapt the costuming for the heat of late July, early August, as well as the creeping chill of late September. Let's see if we can glean anything from the way that they describe the show in this press release. They leave with the quotation, another day is dawning. From Euston Station to Victoria Grove, the strays and rebels of London gather under the Jellicle moon in the hope they'll be the chosen one. I hadn't thought of the fact there is often a moon in the set design, and there is, as night slowly falls over this production, going to be, hopefully, set performances, at least a literal moon in the sky. I have to figure out how to be at full moon Cats, like, whenever that is going to be. I need to look at a moon chart and make sure I don't miss. Miss that performance, because that's exciting to me. That's the kind of person that I am. Also not sure I've ever read a description of cats before that does so much to try and invoke specific places, but also, this is, you know, in Regent's Park. And while Jellicle Ball Cats in New York has to kind of brush past a lot of the specific geographical references that remain intact, that's really going to mean something here when they sing about all of these different places. It could even be a canonical meeting of the Jellicle Cats in Regent's Park. Like that would make sense. Even though cats and dogs are not meant to be permitted within the literal inner circle of the park. It's a big. If anything, it's a big act of rebellion. Against the Royal Parks people carrying on with a legendary score featuring old Deuteronomy. That's the first one. You go with a legendary score featuring old Deuteronomy. I would. I would go elsewhere. A legendary score featuring old Deuteronomy. Macavity the Mystery Cat. Sure, no argument there. The Jellicle Bore and the chart topping hit Memory. Admittedly the most famous song from the show and the one that the audience are all going to be turning up for. But you're not going to put Mr. Mistoffeles on that list. What do you mean? You're not going to put Mungo Jerry and Rumpel Teaser on that list. You're going to go with Old Deuteronomy. No one had a breakaway pop hit with Old Deuteronomy. I was not whacking out a small plastic microphone and wearing my sister's dressing gown at age 7 to sing old Deuteronomy to my parents friends of an evening I was doing that with. Memory summary. Don't ask follow up questions. I wish I had answers for you. We're gonna have to move on. Despite my bafflement, this brand new production of Cats reminding us once more, different production. Brand new production directed and choreographed by Regent's Park Open Air Theatre artetic director Drew McKoney of Brigadoon and Jesus Crazy Superstar is sure to be one of the theatrical events of 2026. Indeed it is casting and full creative team to be announced. So this is going to fall into the next Olivier Awards season, the ones that will be presenting in 2027. Meaning it isn't going to be fighting against Evita. Michael Howson and Angela Webber have been doing well to space out their revivals just enough to make sure that there is not a lot of direct conflict. Although there might be a couple of Lloyd Webber musicals in contention next year, it might also be the season of his new musical, the Illusionist. That's something to consider as well. Obviously that would be a different Olivier Awards category, but it's worth thinking about now. This is the closest thing I think we're going to get to any kind of an indication as to what this production might be like. And that is a statement from director choreographer Drew McK. As for many dancers in the industry, Cats was a transformative experience for me. And as a former cast member, it's thrilling to be directing and choreographing this brand new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's iconic musical. I didn't know that he'd been a cat in Cats. I would like to sit down with this man and ask him more about his time as a cat. Cat. I can't wait to share this much loved piece with a new generation of audiences, both in the stunning outdoor setting of Regent's Park Open Air Theatre and in theatres across the uk. This is a big move for Regent's park, having all of this lined up before the season even begins. With the production heading out on tour, we are delighted that it will reach audiences around the country after its London run, continuing our commitment to working with partners, in this case the brilliant Michael Harrison, to ensure our work is seen by as many as possible beyond our home in Regent's Park. And Michael Harrison has been a great producing friend of Regent's Park. Earlier this summer he was a producing partner on the London transfer of the Broadway musical Shocked, which played there, which began this year's season and which, once again, if you would like, you can go and listen to my review of Angela. Dwebber, meanwhile, has said he is very excited to see a totally new production of Cats back on the stage where it belongs. I can think of no one better than Drew McHoney to bring a new vision to the world of the Jellicles. And I agree. Michael Harrison has said I am delighted that we will be presenting a brand new production of Cats next summer. Drew is an outstanding artist and it has long felt destined that he would one day reinvent this great musical. I concur. Andrew and I are excited to be working with him and his team at Regent's park and we look forward to the Jellicle Moon shining brightly on this thrilling new production in the splendor of the Open Air Theatre and at major theaters across the country as part of the new UK tour. He knows what's up. Michael Harrison has already thought about the Jellicle Moon as well. Oh, I'm excited about the moon.
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Sadie is a Mochi member, compensated for her story. I can't even tell you. So my inclination, with very little to go on, is that this is not necessarily going to be the highest of high concept cats, but it's going to have a unique and new visual identity. It might feel maybe a little bit more bohemian. It wouldn't surprise me if we had some kind of costume design aesthetic that wasn't giving literal cat in the same way. But I remain incredibly curious. I mean, a set design not unlike the one they had for Brigadoon would be pretty fantastic, would be pretty stellar color for a production of Cats, I think. Or they go in a different direction and do something with more scaffolding like they did with into the Woods. I dare say it's going to be pretty open. Into the woods actually did away with the sense of a set and it was just this open sort of forest floor kind of playing space with all of this scaffolding happening. I dare say because it's Cats and because we're going to be dancing an awful lot, because we're going to be doing ballet and jazz and contemporary movement, that we are going to have a stage. It's going to be quite, quite an open one, I dare say. And the choreography is going to be the real focus of this production and for that I cannot wait. So what else is there to consider as we get excited for this new production of Cats? If you're hearing a low hum in the background, by the way, the windows of my building are currently being cleaned via drone. Are these not exciting times that we are living in? Anyway, I want to have a little think about casting because there are a lot of individuals that Drew McConaughey works with, a lot of talented dancers who I think would be really exciting in Cats. There are a lot of names and faces. I am expecting to see a lot of others that I would like to see. But in particular I am so, so curious about What a Drew McHoney cast Regents Park Grizabella looks like. Because with such a focus on dance, is this going to be a Grizabella who can be more participatory in the dance. There is the iconic moment in the show when Grizabella tries to dance the Jellicle Ball and tries to remember it, but chag and it's too painful and she falls down and she sings a little bit of memory in her sorrow before her larger reprise of the triumphant song later on. In fairness, she is also in the pro shot, at least the only cat wearing a kitten heel. But it wouldn't necessarily surprise me if we did see a dancer in this role, dare I say a Bonnie Langford Grizabella is something that we could conceive of. Bonnie, who of course has a major history with Cats, who was an original cast member member of the London company of Cats and who is enjoying this well deserved renaissance of her musical theater career giving show stopping turns in various shows. She could absolutely sing the hell out of memory. And I don't know that I love the trend of younger and younger actresses being cast as Grizabella with it admittedly not really mattering that much because they have so much makeup on. So it doesn't need to be an older performer. I just don't think. I think you can hear it in the voice. You can hear here that quality of youth. And I prefer a Grizabella whose life experience really emerges through it Seems ridiculous to talk about casting authenticity when we're talking about Cats and casting humans to play cats, but my favorite Grizabellas will always be Elaine Page, Betty Buckley and I think a Bonnie Langford Grizabella. She can definitely still sing it, but also she could sort of give us a more fantastic moment of dance as well. Grizabella was originally meant to dance a little bit more. I think there's the famous story of Judi Dench breaking something in rehearsals and at that point with Judy in the role, it presumably was not going to be as hefty as sing. So you know, color me curious. Maybe it's another past cat like a Ruthie Henschel, like a Stralon sister. They would also skew a little bit younger, but I don't know. I am deeply curious to see who this might be and I welcome all of your thoughts in the comment section down below. I don't think they need necessarily to stunt cast it because I think Cats is going to sell pretty well at Regent's park. But that is something that you all can help us discover as well by letting us know in the comments section down below if you are planning to go and see it. Let me know if you are going to go and see Cats next summer, I will definitely be there at least once, likely more times. It is a hell of a year that we are about to have in 2026 for cats the Musical Apologists. I see you. I see you all. We're winning. And for now, that is everything that I have to say about this newly announced product production. I'm very excited. I am deeply intrigued. I cannot wait to find out more. As and when we do, I will be certain to be talking about it somewhere on social media. Make sure you're subscribed here. Following me on podcast platforms, following me on Instagram, TikTok. Do whatever you have to do to make sure you can stay up to date with my feelings about Cats. Of course, when the production opens, I will be doing my best to review it here and on podcast platforms. Make sure to turn on notifications if you don't want to miss that and the rest of my upcoming videos. But in the meantime, thank you so much for listening to this one. Share all of your thoughts down below. Share this video with another theater fan who needs to know that Cats is coming back and it's gonna be outside this time. And as always, I hope that everyone is staying safe and that you have a stagey day. 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