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Internet star Grumpy Cat to join a Broadway show – ‘Cats’

Internet star Grumpy Cat to join a Broadway show - 'Cats' | iNFOnews.ca
FILE PHOTO - This Dec. 1, 2015 file photo shows Grumpy Cat posing for a photo in Los Angeles. Grumpy Cat is joining the cast of the Broadway musical on Friday, Sept. 30, 2016. The kitty with the comical frown will be worked into the end of the show and will become an honorary Jellicle Cat, according to a spokesman for the show. AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File

NEW YORK – Life will imitate art — or is it the other way around? — when internet sensation Grumpy Cat joins the cast of the Broadway musical "Cats" on Friday for what will likely be a feline-good moment.

The kitty with the comical frown and feline dwarfism "will be worked into the end of the show and will become an honorary Jellicle Cat," according to a spokesman for the show.

Grumpy Cat has become an online phenomenon with 8.7 million Facebook followers and a career selling books, T-shirts, mugs and cat food. She's been in commercials for cereal and fast-food restaurants.

She'll likely be at home at the Neil Simon Theatre, where Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical returned this summer with a cast hissing loudly while wearing legwarmers and spiked hair.

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