First Tour Cast Announced For The Revival of Cats!

FIRST TOUR CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR THE

BRAND-NEW PRODUCTION OF

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER’S

MULTI-AWARD-WINNING MUSICAL

Michael Harrison for Lloyd Webber Harrison Musicals presents the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s global sensation, CATS, across a major UK and Ireland tour and is delighted to announce first casting for the forthcoming tour. The brand-new production of the multi-award-winning musical will open at Theatre Royal Plymouth, where it plays from 6 – 17 October 2026 and then tours through to June 2027.

The UK and Ireland tour will star: Fin Adams (Alonzo), Kalisha Amaris (Old Deuteronomy), Carla Bertran (Electra and Co-Dance Captain), Elliot Broadfoot (Bustopher Jones / Gus), Grace Burrows (Offstage Swing), Matthew Caputo (Skimbleshanks),     Josie Chambers-Sims (Syllabub), Briana Craig (Rumpleteazer), Katie Dunsden (Bombalurina), Joshua-Samuel Freeman (Tumblebrutus), Regan Garcia (Pouncival), Aaron Jenkins (Offstage Swing), Hannah Joseph (Victoria), Taziva-Faye Katsande (Tantomile), Diante Lodge (Macavity), Shona Mairi Masson (Offstage Swing), Owen McHugh (George), Danny Nattrass (Mungojerrie), Millie O'Connell (Demeter), Andrew Parfit (Coricopat), Dean Rickards (Offstage Swing), Nathan Rigg (Offstage Swing), Lucie-Mae Sumner (Jellylorum / Griddlebone), Laura Tyrer (Jennyanydots / Gumbie Cat), Jaydon Vijn (Rum Tum Tugger), Jack Wilcox (Munkustrap), Jet Yau (Mr. Mistoffelees), Taela Yeomans-Brown (Offstage Swing and Co-Dance Captain), and Patricia Zhou (Cassandra). 

Casting for Grizabella will be announced later this year.

With music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and based on Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot, this production of CATS will embark on a major UK and Ireland tour following its run at Theatre Royal Plymouth, visiting:

• Hull, New Theatre – 20–24 October 2026

• Birmingham, Hippodrome – 27 October–7 November 2026

• Manchester, Palace Theatre – 10–21 November 2026

• Bristol, Hippodrome – 24–28 November 2026

• Llandudno, Venue Cymru – 1–5 December 2026

• Glasgow, Theatre Royal – 8–27 December 2026

• Nottingham, Royal Concert Hall – 6–16 January 2027

• Canterbury, Marlowe Theatre – 19–23 January 2027

• Sunderland, Empire Theatre – 26–30 January 2027

• Aberdeen, His Majesty’s Theatre – 9–13 February 2027

• Norwich, Theatre Royal – 16–27 February 2027

• Belfast, Grand Opera House – 2–13 March 2027

• Dublin, Bord Gáis Energy Theatre – 16–20 March 2027

• Oxford, New Theatre – 23–27 March 2027

• Southampton, Mayflower Theatre – 30 March–10 April 2027

• Edinburgh, Playhouse – 20–24 April 2027

• Bradford, Alhambra Theatre – 27 April–1 May 2027

• Liverpool, Empire Theatre – 5–15 May 2027

• Woking, New Victoria Theatre – 18–22 May 2027

• Cardiff, Wales Millennium Centre – 25–29 May 2027

• Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes Theatre – 1–5 June 2027

• Newcastle, Theatre Royal – 8–19 June 2027.