There's getting to be quite a menagerie at the Grand Theatre in Leeds.

No sooner had Doctor Dolittle and his animals packed up and there's been an invasion of moggies.

The mega-popular musical Cats began its three-week residency this week and will run until March 29.

Later in a season dominated by musicals there'll be an enchanted beast.

Cats has been seen by millions of people in more than 300 cities across the world over three decades.

The theatre is transformed into a junkyard where the city's cats gather for the annual Jellicle Ball.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's music accompanies the rhymes from TS Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.

Beauty and the Beast is the stage version of Disney's cartoon musical about an enchanted castle and the girl who falls for its prince.

The family show comes to the Grand on September 4-13, halfway through its fourth year of constant touring of the UK.

There's more adult fare on November 3-15 as the latest West End revival of Cabaret comes to the Grand.

The musical, made famous by Liza Minnelli's film version, turns the Berlin of 1931 into a divine haven of decadence.

The morally ambiguous inhabitants are determined to keep up appearances while the rest of the city prepares for war.

Anita Dobson takes the title role in Hello Dolly! as the classic musical is revived for the first time in 20 years.

In the light-hearted show Dolly is a professional matchmaker who herself finally gives in and finds romance.

The show, featuring songs like Before the Parade Passes By and It Only Takes a Moment, runs from June 23-28.

The national tour of another Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Aspects of Love, arrives in Leeds on June 17-21.

The intimate show features a soaring score including the hit song Love Changes Everything.

It portrays the changing relationships between five people over 20 years as they fall in and out of love with each other.

Evita, also by Lloyd Webber, comes out of the West End for a Leeds residency on August 18-30.

The acclaimed new production includes the famous songs like Don't Cry for Me Argentina and On This Night of a Thousand Stars.

The stage version of the hit Disney film musical High School Musical comes to the Grand on November 24-December 6.

Marti Pellow from pop group Wet Wet Wet stars as a devilish man in the musical version of film The Witches of Eastwick.

He is summoned up by three frustrated housewives who turn to witchcraft to find the man of their dreams, on February 17-21 next year.

Overcoming shows include English National Ballet in Swan Lake (April 1-6); Motown show Dancing in the Streets (May 26-31); Irish spectacular Spirit of the Dance (June 307); Agatha Christie whodunnit And Then There Were None (July 7-12).

Children's shows include Thomas and Friends (June 12-15); Jacqueline Wilson's drama Secrets (July 16-19) and Lazytown Live! (August 2/3).

Book tickets for all the shows at Keighley town hall or phone 0844 848 2705.