CATS Comes To The Arnoff Center

The show that revolutionized musical theatre is returning to the Aronoff Center for three performances as a Fifth Third Bank Broadway Across America 09/10 Special Presentation.

Tickets are on sale now and may be purchased from an authorized ticket agent in person at the Broadway Across America Box Office, downtown in the Mercantile Center, The Aronoff Center Ticket Office, online at BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com, or by phone at 1-800-982-2787.

Based on T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, CATS won seven 1983 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Lighting and Best Costumes.

On May 11, 1981, CATS opened at the New London Theatre in the West End. Eight years later it celebrated its first important milestone: after 3,358 performances CATS became the longest running musical in the history of British theatre. CATS played its final performance on its 21st birthday, May 11, 2002.

CATS opened on Broadway October 7, 1982 at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City and continued to live up to its motto "Now and Forever." On June 19, 1997, CATS became the longest running musical on Broadway. It ended its 18 year run on September 10, 2000.

In October of 1991 CATS became the longest continuously touring show in American theatre history. Five continents, 26 countries, over eight and a half million audience members and 26 years later, CATS is still America's most loved family musical. Celebrating not only 26 years but the birth of the musical spectacular, CATS is still revolutionary and awe inspiring.

Produced by CATS-Eye, LLC, the national tour of CATS is the only production in North America sanctioned by Andrew Lloyd Webber. With original direction by Trevor Nunn and choreography by Gillian Lynne this is The catS credited with the British invasion of Broadway. The national tour of CATS recently celebrated its 26th anniversary season, holding its place as the longest continuously touring Broadway musical in history.

CATS will play the Aronoff Center, February 5-6, 2010: Friday at 8:00PM and Saturday at 2:00PM & 8:00PM. Tickets range in price from $22.50-$57.50 and may be purchased online at BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com/Cincinnati in person at the Broadway Across America Box Office downtown in the Mercantile Center and the Aronoff Center Box Office or by phone at 1-800-982-2787.

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