Rumor: CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL to close in August?

I’ve been watching Telecharge and looking for tickets for others and noticed something odd. 

Although they haven’t cancelled dates yet, it appears the last ball will be on 8/8.

They’ve already gently pulled away any working discount codes (mine no longer worked) and the evening performance on 8/8 has jacked their prices up to a level incongruent to the rest of the Saturday night shows.

Call it a hunch, and the last thing I want is this show to close, but I got a bad feeling we have an announcement coming soon.

Updated On: 7/10/26 at 05:06 PM

that sucks. it should have won Best Revival.

The higher prices on Saturday night, Aug. 8 do look suspicious unless there’s some other event happening that evening.

Updated On: 7/10/26 at 05:37 PM

TotallyEffed said: "What a shame. Any word on an album?"

Too expensive. Again, a real shame. 

In a perfect world, this gets a live cast recording and I can already picture a gaudy, glittery vinyl copy.

EDSOSLO858 said: "Bosner and Harrison are reportedly preparing to pull the trigger soon (and apparently ALW is about to get word of it), this would make sense.An August 8 closing means an expected total of 21 previews and 143 regular performances.

I had a nice time at this one, though I didn't love it quite as much as the critics did.

It's a shame it's closing so soon because this felt ripe for some major drag queenstunt casts. Promoting guest judges was never going to do the trick on its own.



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This may turn out to be true but you also told us that the word was Two Strangers was closing 6/28 and Titanique was closing 7/12 so I'm gonna wait and see on this one...

This is not surprising to me. When the transfer was announced I immediately thought it might last 8 months or so on Broadway. Just popping through future performances on Telecharge there are a lot of seats available.

I think it should have stayed off-Broadway. It may have lasted longer there. JMO

Notice how, on the current home menu of the JELLICLE BALL website, there's a big, blank yellow banner to the left of the "tickets" box, which also seems suspicious. (Usually shows post pull quotes, Tony nominations / wins if applicable, and current / upcoming stunt casting in that area.)

I suppose they're preparing it to say something along the lines of "FINAL BROADWAY PERFORMANCE AUGUST 8."

Updated On: 7/10/26 at 06:13 PM