Some forty years later, screaming and, indeed, discreet sobbing are actually the appropriate reactions to the ecstatic, quasi-immersive production of 'Cats: The Jellicle Ball,' at PAC NYC. The directors Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch have re-envisioned Lloyd Webber's cheese-tastic musical as an event on the queer, largely Black and Latinx ballroom circuit.
When André De Shields, a Broadway icon, appears as the kinglike Old Deuteronomy, in a purple suit (designed by Qween Jean) and a white-and-purple ombré lion's mane, the audience's din of approval becomes his royal fanfare.
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