Mews and Nips: Casting Cats on Broadway, and More

As the new Broadway version of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is getting ready for its March 20 premiere, there was one important role that was still uncast: that of Holly Golightly’s cat. The cat plays a key part in the story, and requires an animal that can handle lights, microphones and an audience, can cross the stage, sit, stay and exit on cue.

That’s a tall order for a cat, but Vito, a cat from the Dawn Animal Agency,a casting company with a 300-acre animal sanctuary in the Hudson Valleyfilled...