Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Cats," which became a sensation across Japan when performed by the Shiki (Four Seasons) Theater Company, will be restaged in Tokyo in November for the first time in eight years and the fourth time in the capital since its first Japanese performance in 1983.
The celebrated musical, based on British poet T.S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats," has been staged 5,745 times in Japan, making it the country's longest-running musical. The musical has drawn some 5.7 million patrons.
The musical's new run will be performed at the troupe's newly built theater in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo.