“My goal has been to allow every artist to shine, that their internal glow is the most beautiful thing about the design,” says Qween Jean from her costume studio in New York’s Garment District, seated next to a wall of her sketches. The costume designer is behind the roughly 500 looks created for “Cats: The Jellicle Ball,” which officially opens on Broadway on Tuesday after a hit run off-Broadway last year at the Perelman Performing Arts Center. The new interpretation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber classic “Cats” is directed by Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch and reimagines the Jellicle cats in the world of New York City ballroom culture, with the cats vogueing, dancing and competing for the chance to ascend to a new life. The production has been a years-long “love story” for Jean, who made her Broadway debut with the costumes for “Liberation” last fall. Qween Jean Lexie Moreland/WWD “There’s been so many iterations that grew beyond our original ideas, that surpassed what our expect...
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