In the 1980s, Ken Ard had the good fortune to appear in three Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals. He understudied in Song and Dance and skated around as Electra in Starlight Express, but before all that, he originated the role of Macavity (not to mention Plato and the Great Rumpus Cat) in Cats at the Winter Garden Theatre.
Forty-four years later, Ard is returning to the boards in Cats: The Jellicle Ball at the Broadhurst Theatre. After seeing it at PAC NYC in the summer of 2024, he loved it so much that he essentially manifested his casting until it came true.
This time, he’s playing a character called DJ Griddlebone, a role that allows him to both sit back and drink in the action, “and show them that I can still do a twirl or two...READ MORE