Cats began its New York run at the Winter Garden Theatre on October 7, 1982. The production featured Betty Buckley, and like the London production which preceded it, the New York version of Cats dazzled audiences with its imaginative spectacle and story-telling flare.

The plot of Cats, which contains no spoken dialogue, revolves around such feline characters as Old Deuteronomy, Jennyanydots, Mr. Mistoffelees, and Grizabella who sings the hit song "Memory" before she ascends to cats’ heaven at play’s end. In the Winter Garden production, the entire auditorium was transformed into a gigantic junkyard.

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