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Here’s How the Costumes for a Wild New Production of Cats Got Made
The viral new show at PAC NYC is filled with shocks and reveals. Making it happen wasn’t easy.
Dudney Joseph Jr. and Xavier Reyes in Cats: The Jellicle Ball.
Photographer: Matthew MurphyA few weeks before the premiere of the latest Cats production to arrive in New York, costume designer Qween Jean was busily making final adjustments.
Preternaturally calm, she watched as a team in the midtown costume shop John Kristiansen New York took measurements of actor Jonathan Burke, who was wearing a long, white-leather jacket adorned with red and blue decoration.