Cats now just a memory

Cats, the longest-running show in Broadway history, ended a season of 7484 performances last night.

More than 10 million people have seen the production, which took $US400 million ($969 million) in its 18 years on Broadway.

Among the invited guests for its private finale was Betty Buckley, who played the original Grizabella and won a Tony for the song Memory.

The musical, written by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and based on T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, is still running in London.