Andrew Lloyd Webber’s record-breaking musical Cats is to return to Blackpool direct from its sell-out season at the London Palladium in the West End.
The hit show will run at Blackpool Opera House, one of the country’s largest theatres, for eight weeks from July 9.
Adapted from TS Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, with a musical score that includes the timeless "Memory", it remains a musical like no other.
On just one special night of the year, all Jellicle cats meet at the Jellicle Ball where Old Deuteronomy, their wise and benevolent leader, makes the Jellicle choice and announces which of them will go up to The Heaviside Layer and be reborn into a whole new Jellicle life.
Cats has a successful history in Blackpool. It first came to the Opera House in 1989 for an unprecedented six-month run. It then returned in 2003 as part of a national tour.