A new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s, CATS, is coming!

Three acclaimed West End performers, Louise Dearman (Wicked, Evita), Alice Fearn (Come From Away, Wicked) and Rachael Wooding (CATS, We Will Rock You and Starlight Express) will share the iconic role of ‘Grizabella’. Directed and choreographed by Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre Artistic Director Drew McOnie, the tour opens at Plymouth Theatre Royal on Tuesday 6 October, 2026.

Louise Dearman is the only actor in the world to have played both Glinda and Elphaba in Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre). Other theatre credits include: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (UK tour); Evita (UK tour); Guys and Dolls (UK tour and Piccadilly Theatre); Grease (Victoria Palace Theatre and UK tour); Kiss Me Kate (Victoria Palace); Jekyll and Hyde (UK Tour); Side Show (London Palladium and Southwark Playhouse); The Waterbabies (Leicester Curve); Wonderful Town (Opera Holland Park); Mimma (Cadogan Hall and Teatro Verdi Trieste); Tell Me On A Sunday (International). Concert credits include: Gravity (World Tour); BBC Proms; The BBC Concert Orchestra, The London Concert Orchestra, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The John Wilson Orchestra, The Halle Orchestra, The Camerata, The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, The Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

Alice Fearn’s theatre credits include: Kimberly Akimbo (Hampstead Theatre); Wicked (West End); Come From Away (Phoenix Theatre, London); Dear Evan Hansen (UK Tour); Rotten Scoundrels (Savoy Theatre, London); Shrek The Musical (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Into The Woods (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre, London) and The Woman in White (Palace Theatre, London). Television includes: EastEnders and Tonight’s The Night. Film includes: WICKED: Part One; Les Misérables; WICKED: For Good; Sweeney Todd; Alice in Wonderland; Clash of the Titans; Mamma Mia! and Pirates of the Caribbean.

Rachael Wooding’s theatre credits include: Grizabella in CATS at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; Military Wives (York Theatre Royal); Standing at the Sky’s Edge (Gillian Lynne Theatre/National Theatre/Sheffield Crucible); Pretty Woman (Savoy Theatre); Fat Friends the Musical (UK Tour); We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre); Street of Dreams (Manchester Evening News Arena); Jersey Boys (Prince Edward Theatre); Evita (UK Tour); Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre); Saturday Night Fever (Apollo Victoria Theatre); Footloose (UK Tour); Fame (Aldwych Theatre); Starlight Express (Bochum, Germany); CATS (Operettenhaus, Hamburg). TV includes: Girlfriends (ITV); Britain’s Got Talent (ITV); Al Murray’s Happy Hour (ITV); Doctors (BBC); Coronation Street (ITV); The Royal Variety Performance (ITV).

THE REST OF THE CAST

Fin Adams (Alonzo)
Kalisha Amaris (Old Deuteronomy)
Carla Bertran (Electra and Co-Dance Captain)
Elliot Broadfoot (Bustopher Jones / Gus)
Grace Burrows (Offstage Swing)
Matthew Caputo (Skimbleshanks)
Josie Chambers-Sims (Syllabub)
Briana Craig (Rumpleteazer)
Katie Dunsden (Bombalurina)
Joshua-Samuel Freeman (Tumblebrutus)
Regan Garcia (Pouncival)
Aaron Jenkins (Offstage Swing)
Hannah Joseph (Victoria)
Taziva-Faye Katsande (Tantomile)
Diante Lodge (Macavity)
Shona Mairi Masson (Offstage Swing)
Owen McHugh (George)
Danny Nattrass (Mungojerrie)
Millie O’Connell (Demeter)
Andrew Parfit (Coricopat)
Dean Rickards (Offstage Swing)
Nathan Rigg (Offstage Swing)
Lucie-Mae Sumner (Jellylorum / Griddlebone)
Laura Tyrer (Jennyanydots / Gumbie Cat)
Jaydon Vijn (Rum Tum Tugger)
Jack Wilcox (Munkustrap)
Jet Yau (Mr. Mistoffelees)
Taela Yeomans-Brown (Offstage Swing and Co-Dance Captain)
Patricia Zhou (Cassandra)