children and adults. and i promise will be for neither. katz, a webber musical based on the possum book of practical cats has been troezing children for decades. i saw it at 7 and still suffering trauma. it's awful in any form. i am however grateful for it. it was the first true megamusical. pioneers the big production transformational musical experience that paved the which for musicals i love. le mizp chess, so many others. katz brought people to the theater in unprecedented numbers. a huge commercial success, grossing over $2 billion worldwide by 1994. the longest running production on broadway and in the west once and it's because of katz we are going to the theater in record numbers. last year alone broadway grossed nearly $2 billion in ticket sales. there were 38 new productions last year and more than 14