TICKETS for Cats, the world's most successful and longest running musical, go on sale on Friday.

The West End show is arriving at Birmingham's Alexandra Theatre between October 14 and November 1.

Based on fourteen poems of TS Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats and with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the musical opened at the New London Theatre in May 1981 and played until May 2002, the show's 21st birthday.

It has been seen by more than 50 million people worldwide and translated into 10 languages.

Tickets cost £13.50-£34 from 0870 607 7544.