The London Cast of CATS THE MUSICAL 2026 at Open Air Theatre

Full casting has been announced for the brand-new production of CATS, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot.

Directed and choreographed by Drew McOnie.

The production runs from Saturday 25 July – Saturday 12 September 2026 .

THE LONDON CAST

Fin Adams (Alonzo)
Carla Bertran (Electra / Co-Dance Captain)
Elliot Broadfoot (Bustopher Jones)
Grace Burrows (Offstage Swing)
Matthew Caputo (Skimbleshanks)
Josie Chambers-Sims (Syllabub (Jemima))
Briana Craig (Rumpleteazer)
Katie Dunsden (Bombalurina)
Joshua-Samuel Freeman (Tumblebrutus (Bill Bailey))
Regan Garcia (Pouncival (Carbuckety))
Aaron Jenkins (Offstage Swing)
Hannah Joseph (Victoria)
Taziva-Faye Katsande (Tantomile)
Melanie La Barrie (Old Deuteronomy)
Diante Lodge (Macavity / Admetus)
Owen McHugh (George )
Danny Nattrass (Mungojerrie)
Millie O’Connell (Demeter)
Andrew Parfitt (Coricopat)
Charlotte Riby (Jennyanydots (Gumbie Cat))
Nathan Rigg ( Offstage Swing)
Lucie-Mae Sumner (Jellylorum (Griddlebone))
Jaydon Vijn (Rum Tum Tugger)
Jack Wilcox (Munkustrap)
Gary Wilmot (Gus)
Rachael Wooding (Grizabella)
Jet Yau (Mr. Mistoffelees / Quaxo)
Taela Yeomans-Brown (Offstage Swing / Co-Dance Captain)
Patricia Zhou (Cassandra).

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE CAST

Fin Adams | Alonzo

Theatre includes: Cats (European Tour); A Chorus Line (Curve, Leicester/Sadler’s Wells/National Tour); Pinocchio (Theatre Royal, Newcastle); Goldilocks (Mayflower Theatre, Southampton); Kipps (Laine Theatre Arts).

Carla Bertran | Electra / Co-Dance Captain

Theatre includes: Bat Out Of Hell (UK Tour); Jesus Christ Superstar (UK Tour); The Cher Show (UK Tour).

Elliot Broadfoot | Bustopher Jones

Theatre includes: Kathy & Stella Solve a Murder! (Original West End Cast, Ambassadors Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (Liverpool Everyman); The Parent Agency (Storyhouse Chester); I Should Be So Lucky (National Tour); Annie Get Your Gun (Lavender Fields); Of Mice and Men (Leeds Playhouse).

Grace Burrows | Offstage Swing

Theatre includes: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (Kilworth House Theatre); Jack and the Beanstalk (Mayflower Theatre); Life in the Golden Laine (Epsom Playhouse); Pinocchio (Grand Opera House Belfast); Witches of Eastwick (Laine Theatre Arts).

Matthew Caputo | Skimbleshanks

For Regent’s Park: On The Town (2017).

Theatre includes: The Book Thief: Concert Production (Prince of Wales Theatre), Alfred Hitchcock Presents – The Musical (Theatre Royal, Bath); The Artist (Theatre Royal, Plymouth); The Book Thief (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry/Curve Theatre, Leicester); Hamilton (Victoria Palace Theatre); City of Angels (Garrick Theatre); White Christmas (Dominion Theatre); Matilda (UK Tour); 21 Chump Street (Courtyard Theatre); ScroogeGypsy42nd Street (Curve Theatre, Leicester); The Life (Southwark Playhouse); Mary Poppins (UK Tour); Top Hat (UK Tour); CATS (UK Tour); White Christmas (The Lowry, Manchester); West Side Story (The Sage, Gateshead).

Josie Chambers-Sims | Syllabub (Jemima)

CATS marks Josie’s professional debut

Briana Craig | Rumpleteazer

Theatre includes: Snow White (New Victoria Theatre, Woking); A Chorus Line (Japan Tour); The Artist (Theatre Royal, Plymouth); Snow White (Theatre Royal, Plymouth); 42nd Street (National Tour/Sadler’s Wells/Toronto); Singin’ in the Rain (Sadler’s Wells/Japan/National Tour/Toronto); Jack and the Beanstalk (London Palladium); Dick Whittington (New Wimbledon Theatre).

Katie Dunsden | Bombalurina

Theatre includes: Diamonds & Dust (Emerald Theatre); Grease (Dominion Theatre); Moulin Rouge! (Piccadilly Theatre); On Your Feet! (London Coliseum); Pretty Woman! (Theatre11, Zurich); Peter Pan, Robin Hood, Sleeping Beauty (London Palladium); Anton Du Beke & Giovanni Pernice’s – Him & MeLet Me Entertain YouTango Passions, Anton Du Beke & Giovanni Pernice’s – Together (Strictly Theatre Co); Mamma Mia! (UK/International Tour).

Joshua-Samuel Freeman | Tumblebrutus (Bill Bailey)

Theatre includes: Sleeping Beauty, Little Wolf (Royal Tunbridge Wells); Where Eagles Fly (Workshop); World of Musicals in Concert (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand Tour).

Regan Garcia | Pouncival (Carbuckety)

Theatre includes: Robin Hood (New Wimbledon Theatre); Jack and the Beanstalk (Mayflower Theatre); Sandi Toksvig – One Night Only (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ The Musical (Ambassadors Theatre); A Very, Very, Very Dark Matter (Bridge Theatre); Matilda The Musical (Cambridge Theatre); Mary Poppins (UK Tour); West End Live.

Aaron Jenkins | Offstage Swing

Theatre includes: Cats (European & International Tours); Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre, London); Chicago (UK & Ireland Tour); Cats (Kilworth House Theatre); Mary Poppins (Hamburg, Germany); Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre, London).

Hannah Joseph | Victoria

For Regent’s Park: Dream Ballets: A Triple Bill (2025).

Performances includes: TELLUS (Dickson Mbi Company); UniVerse: A Dark Crystal OdysseyAutoBiographyDeepstaria (Company Wayne McGregor); Matthew Bourne’s Romeo+Juliet (New Adventures, Sadler’s Wells); Moschino SS24 Milan Fashion WeekLondon Fashion Week 2024Hermès Brides de Gala; Robyn Talk to Me music video.

Taziva-Faye Katsande | Tantomile

Theatre includes: Goldilocks and the Three BearsCrossroads (Darlington Hippodrome); Jack and the Beanstalk (The Capitol, Horsham); Bugsy Malone (UK Tour); Annie (UK Tour); Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre); Luisa Miller (Opera).

Dance includes: Homage to Happiness (Wilton’s Musical Hall); Royal Variety Performance, Adventures of Peter Pan (Anthony Vanlaast).

Melanie La Barrie | Old Deuteronomy

Theatre includes: Mary Page Marlowe, The Lorax (Old Vic); Hadestown (Lyric Theatre); Once On This Island (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); The Book Thief (Prince of Wales Theatre); Roam (Shaftesbury Theatre); We Aren’t Kids Anymore (Savoy Theatre); &Juliet (West End/Broadway); Wicked (Apollo Victoria); Dick Whittington (National Theatre); The Everyman Season (Everyman Playhouse); Matilda The Musical (RSC/Cambridge Theatre); Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre); Les Misérables (London’s Sondheim Theatre); Play Mas (Orange Tree Theatre); The Bakkhai (Almeida Theatre)

Diante Lodge | Macavity / Admetus

Theatre includes: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (National Theatre); EvitaPeter PanSleeping Beauty (London Palladium); Original London Cast of MJ The Musical (Prince Edward Theatre); Matilda (Cambridge Theatre); Carousel (Kilworth House Theatre); Best Of West End (Royal Albert Hall); Coppelia (Cockpit Theatre).

Owen McHugh | George

For Regent’s Park: Brigadoon (2025).

Theatre includes: Why Am I So Single? (Garrick Theatre); Clueless the Musical (Churchill Theatre, Bromley); Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (English National Opera, London Coliseum); White Christmas (UK Tour); But I’m a Cheerleader (The Turbine Theatre); Beauty and the Beast (Civic Theatre); Memories of the Musicals, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (Kilworth House); The Snowman (UK Tour/Peacock Theatre, London); Me And My Girl (Frinton Summer Theatre); Doctor Dolittle The Musical (UK Tour); Peter Pan (Hull New Theatre); Cinderella (Wyvern Theatre). 

Danny Nattrass | Mungojerrie

For Regent’s Park: Brigadoon (2025).

Theatre includes: Elf (Aldwych Theatre); Grease (European Tour); Close Up – The Twiggy Musical (Menier Chocolate Factory); We Will Rock You (London Coliseum); Pump Up The Volume (Turbine Theatre); The Osmonds: A New Musical (National Tour); Pantoland at the Palladium, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium); Mamma Mia! (Novello Theatre).

Millie O’Connell | Demeter

Theatre includes: Come Fall In Love (Opera House Manchester); Cake (The Other Palace); The Cher Show (UK Tour); Rent (Hope Mill Theatre); Hair (Turbine Theatre); Be More ChiIl (Shaftesbury Theatre/The Other Palace); Soho Cinders (Charing Cross Theatre); SIX: The Musical (UK Tour/Arts Theatre, London); Thoroughly Modern Millie (UK Tour); 42nd Street (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); 42nd Street (Theatre Du Chatelet).

Andrew Parfitt | Coricopat

Theatre includes: Disney’s The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre, West End)

Charlotte Riby | Jennyanydots (Gumbie Cat)

For Regent’s Park: Jesus Christ Superstar (2016-17); Carousel (2021).

Theatre includes: Midnight (Sadler’s Wells East); Me & My Girl (UK Tour); Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre); Priscilla Queen of the Desert (The Place); Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace Theatre); Waitress (Adelphi Theatre); Annie Get Your Gun (Palladium); Midnight (London and New York Workshop/Showcase). 

Nathan Rigg | Offstage Swing

Theatre includes: A Chorus Line (Curve/Japan Tour); Guys and Dolls (Bridge Theatre); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (London Palladium/UK Tour); What’s New Pussycat (Birmingham Rep Theatre); Mother Goose (Mercury Theatre); Sleeping Beauty (Norwich Theatre Royal).

Lucie-Mae Sumner | Jellylorum (Griddlebone)

Theatre includes: Mary Poppins (UK Tour); Singin’ In The Rain (Kilworth House); I Should Be So Lucky (UK Tour); Titanic (UK & International Tour); Mary Poppins (West End, Prince Edward Theatre); ChicagoQuality Street, Travesties (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Barnum (Menier Chocolate Factory); Guys and Dolls (UK Tour/Savoy Theatre); A Damsel in Distress (Chichester Festival Theatre); Avenue Q (UK Tour); Barnum (Chichester Festival Theatre); Sister Act (UK Tour).

Jaydon Vijn | Rum Tum Tugger

For Regent’s Park: The Sound Of Music (2013).

Theatre includes: Starlight Express (Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre); Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre); MAMMA MIA! (International Tour/UK Tour); Starlight Express Das Musical (Bochum, Germany); Pippin (Charing Cross Theatre); Jack & The Beanstalk (London Palladium); Aladdin, Cinderella (Regent Theatre, Stoke); Oliver! (UK Tour); The Sound of Music (Doha, Qatar); Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre), Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane).

Jack Wilcox | Munkustrap

Theatre includes: Little Dancer (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Singin’ in the Rain (Kilworth House Theatre); Crazy For You (Gillian Lynne Theatre, London); Saturday Night Fever (UK Tour); Anything Goes (The Barbican/UK Tour); White Christmas, An American in Paris 0 Original London Cast (Dominion Theatre); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium); Kiss Me Kate (London Coliseum/Leeds Grand Theatre); Cinderella (Cambridge Arts Theatre); Sweeney Todd (Mercury/Derby Theatre); Cinderella (QDOS Manchester Opera House); Travels With my Aunt, Singin’ in the Rain (Chichester Festival Theatre); Titanic (Princess of Wales, Toronto); The Sound of Music, 42nd Street (Leicester Curve); West Side Story (UK Tour); Singin’ in the Rain (Palace Theatre); Kiss Me Kate (Theatre Du Chatelet); A Chorus Line (Tel Aviv Opera House); Shoes (Peacock Theatre); Wicked (Victoria Apollo); High School Musical 2 (UK Tour); Cinderella (Bournemouth Pavillion); Apollo Victoria 80th Gala (Apollo Victoria); Kerry Ellis Sings the Great British Songbook (Shaw Theatre); Night of 1000 VoicesHandel’s Messiah (Royal Albert Hall).

Gary Wilmot | Gus

For Regent’s Park: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Pirates of Penzance (2001), HMS Pinafore (2005). 

Theatre includes: A Man For All Seasons (National Tour/West End), Something Rotten (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); The Artist (Plymouth Theatre Royal); The Wizard of Oz (Palladium/National Tour); Old Friends (The Gielgud); Peter Pan, Jack & The Beanstalk, Pantoland at the Palladium, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, Dick Whittington, Wind in the Willows, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang  (Palladium);  Wicked (Apollo Theatre); Anything Goes (Barbican); Prince of Egypt (Dominion); Mr Gumand the Dancing Bear (National Theatre); Little Miss Sunshine (Arcola); Flowers for Mrs Harris (Chichester Festival Theatre); Big – the Musical (Theatre Royal Plymouth/Bord Gais, Dublin); End of the Rainbow (National Tour); Oklahoma (National Tour);Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Savoy Theatre/National Tour); The Pajama Game (Shaftesbury Theatre); Radio Times (The Watermill/National Tour); A Bowl Of Cherries (Charing Cross Theatre); The Invisible Man (Menier Chocolate Factory); Arthur Saville’s Crime (National Tour); Chicago (National Tour); The Wizard of Oz (Royal Festival Hall); Half A Sixpence (National Tour); Santa Claus The Musical, The Wizard of Oz (Mayflower); Oliver (National Tour); The Pirates of Penzance (National Tour); Confusions (National Tour); Travels With My Aunt (National Tour); The Goodbye Girl (The Albery); Copacabana (National Tour/Prince of Wales Theatre); One for the Road (Bristol Old Vic); Carmen Jones (Old Vic); Me and My Girl (Adelphi Theatre). 

Rachael Wooding | Grizabella

Theatre includes: Military Wives (York Theatre Royal); Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Gillian Lynne Theatre/National Theatre/Sheffield Crucible); Well Behaved Women (Cadogan Hall); Pretty Woman (Savoy Theatre); Fat Friends the Musical (UK Tour); Wonderland (UK Tour); Another Night Before Christmas (Bridge House Theatre); We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre); Street of Dreams (Manchester Evening News Arena); Jersey Boys (Prince Edward Theatre); Bright Lights, Big City (Hoxton Hall); Evita (UK Tour); Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre); Loveshack (UK Tour); Saturday Night Fever (Apollo Victoria Theatre); Footloose (UK Tour); Return to the Forbidden Planet (Lincoln Theatre Royal); A Chorus Line (Sheffield Crucible); Fame (Aldwych Theatre); Starlight Express (Bochum, Germany); Cats (Operettenhaus, Hamburg); Spirit of the Dance (US Tour); My Father’s Son (Sheffield Theatre).

Jet Yau | Mr. Mistoffelees / Quaxo

Theatre includes: Gerry and Sewell (Aldwych Theatre).

Taela Yeomans-Brown | Offstage Swing / Co-Dance Captain

Theatre includes: Robin Hood (Birmingham Hippodrome); Quadrophenia: A Mod Ballet (UK Tour/Sadler’s Wells/New York City Centre); Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre); Mary Poppins (The Prince Edward Theatre); Lion King (Lyceum Theatre); Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Richmond Theatre).

Patricia Zhou | Cassandra

Theatre includes: The Nutcracker (McOnie Company, Southbank Centre); Dr. Semmelweis (Harold Pinter Theatre).

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