After its London premiere, Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.

Cats (musical)

1981 musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Cats is a sung-through musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. The musical tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make the "Jellicle choice" by…