Admetus

@ask-admetus Got you a new friend! :D Her name is Agnes Butter.

?? 🤔 Thank you, Pounce. She’s very sweet.

@slinky-bastard @stressedout-jellicle-dad ... Why are there chickens everywhere?

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*trying to keep them all rounded up in one part of the junkyard* I don't know but I suspect it has something to do with @its-mangojelly 🙄

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Why does everyone always think its me? This is unfair *pout*

🤨 Did you go around robbing farmyards??

@ask-admetus Got you a new friend! :D Her name is Agnes Butter.

?? 🤔 Thank you, Pounce. She’s very sweet.

@slinky-bastard @stressedout-jellicle-dad ... Why are there chickens everywhere?

Rafe Watts as Munkustrap and Hayden Baum covering Admetus; 2020 Asia tour, 30 January 2021.

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Bradley Andrew just hanging about.

(2018 international tour)

I like this comfy seat.

Aaron Lynch getting a chance to cover Admetus. You might think the most important part of that track is the pas de deux with Victoria, or maybe the Macavity fight, but no: it’s actually Caring For Carbuckety during the curtain call.

Asia tour, 31 January 2021. Jal Joshua Lebumfacil is Carbuckety.

More generally, however: Aaron is apparently a very funny actor, and doesn’t get much of a chance to play around as Coricopat. So a couple of different reports from regular attendees did comment on him having a lot of fun as Admetus! One said “he escaped from the expressionless Cori and acts like a pony. He laughed so brightly and the motion grew very much!” He was especially funny with his gesticulations and facial expressions in the pyramid choir.

He is also, apparently, a very gentle Admetus. He was cute and attentive to Gus. One person mentioned that he doesn’t lift Tyler (Victoria) the same way that Thomas Inge does: he seems less confident, more worried about hurting her, and so takes more of her weight on his shoulders instead of his hands.

And two people mentioned that he didn’t throw the ball hard enough during Tugger’s song, being worried that it would go into the audience - he almost rolled it, so that Dan Partridge had to pick it up to kick it!

Sadly, he did not do the toe taps. The moment in the first gif when Jal flings himself sideways is him reacting to the musical cue with Carbuckety-appropriate wiggles; but he does them alone!

Bradley Andrew’s Admetus + Being Increasingly Startled.

International tour 2018; with Bruce Aguilar-Rohan as Carbuckety, and Billy Mahoney as Mungojerrie.

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That was close! For a moment there it looked like Carbuckety was going to prevent the toe-taps!

Thomas Inge and Jal Joshua continuing to vary the toe toe-tapping game; Asia tour, 17/01/2021.

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I caught it!!

But why...?

That was close! For a moment there it looked like Carbuckety was going to prevent the toe-taps!

Thomas Inge and Jal Joshua continuing to vary the toe toe-tapping game; Asia tour, 17/01/2021.

Hayden Baum covering Admetus and Kade Hughes covering Bill Bailey, 2020 Asia tour 7 Feb 2021.

This is the first time these two have been covering these roles for the same performance - so it’s the first time they’ve had a chance to be cute on this side of the stage during the finale sequence, instead of on the other side as Skimble and Tumble!

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I did it EXACTLY THE SAME as you :D

Well done! Perhaps we can think up a synchronised routine to perform for next year’s Ball.

Hayden Baum covering Admetus and Kade Hughes covering Bill Bailey, 2020 Asia tour 7 Feb 2021.

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Thomas Inge as Plato from the 2020 Asia Tour

Five Times Admetus Had To Tap His Toe All Alone - And One Time He Didn’t!

(okay, two, because they did it again after I drafted this post)

Thomas Inge has a habit of marking those few beats before the Skiiiimbleshanks the raaaaailway cat refrain of the curtain call orchestration by tapping his fingers or bobbing his head, or, more usually, by marking out the beats with one foot like here. But usually he does it alone: Jal Joshua as Carbuckety is usually crouched by his feet, and doesn’t join in (though he sometimes bobs his head along to the melody line).

But when Taylor Scanlan is understudying Carbuckety, he sometimes stands up instead - and on 24/11/2020, when he saw Thomas posing his foot, there was a moment of silent communication and then he decided to join in. And Thomas beamed!

(And on the matinee the next day they did it again and looked very happy about it.)

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:D I’ll be your tapping buddy!!

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I never noticed until recently that in the 1998 Cats film during the Pekes and Pollicles number, when the guys start marching in a weird line, Plato somehow wasn’t paying attention and wound up marching passionately by himself in all sorts of different directions....I was snickering when Alonzo noticed the wayward tomcat going the wrong way and, without missing a beat of the March or singing the song, proceeded to dope-slap Plato to get him back in line. 😆😆

YES! I love that moment. Silly Plato going the wrong way 😆

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Cats with fruit!

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He looks shy.

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Munkustrap clambered awkwardly down into the depths of the tyre and fished Pouncival out, dragging him by the scruff of the neck. Pouncival yawned and twisted around to latch onto his face with both forelegs, until Munkustrap bopped him on the nose. “You’re getting too big for this,” he said, and hoisted him bodily up and out of the tyre.

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Alonzo, cuddled next to Tumblebrutus, lifted up his head and smiled sleepily as Munkustrap and Pouncival entered the den. “C’mere,” he yawned, reaching for the kit. “Lonnng sleepover time.”

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Munkustrap ducked his shoulder, sending Pouncival rolling neatly down into the very centre of the fur pile. Pouncival meeped happily and walked all over them, sniffing at ears and faces with interest before sitting down between them. “You guys smell funny,” he decided. “I found a dead pigeon but Jellylorum wouldn’t let me keep it. It had bugs in it!”

“You’re a bug,” Tumblebrutus grumbled at him, and lay on top of him to make him go to sleep.

Munkustrap looked down at them all, nosing gently at Alonzo’s ear, debating whether to stay the night. He quirked an eyebrow at Admetus, hovering uncertainly in the corner.

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“Hmmph,” Alonzo purred, curling around both kits and giving Munkustrap a grateful look. “Bugs are yucky. Don’t eat those.”

Admetus gulped, feeling like an intruder on this sleepy scene. But he couldn’t stand going off without at least saying something. “Tumble-I’m-sorry-about-your-leg-and-everything-else-Alonzo-I-promise-never-to-do-it-again,” he babbled, looking nervously at Munkustrap and edging towards the door.

Alonzo sighed and looked up at Admetus. What did he want, some sort of absolution? Alonzo was way past being angry at him over the chair incident, too much had happened since then. “Adme… I’m not mad. I promise. Just…” He yawned. “This is the Sleepover Den,” he mumbled. “Whoever stays in here gets to sleep.”

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“Leg?” Tumblebrutus blinked at Admetus, already half asleep. “You didn’t… that was the squirrel. I mean. The mying flunky. Um. Monkey.”

“What’s a mighty flunky?” came Pouncival’s voice from under Alonzo’s chin.

Munkustrap ruffled Tumblebrutus’ ears and decided, with some reluctance, that they could do without him for the night. He cocked his head to Admetus, beckoning him outside.

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“Tumble’s a Mighty Flunky,” mumbled Alonzo, kissing the top of Pounce’s head. “He defeated the flying noodle monkey badger. He’ll tell you about it tomorrow.”

Admetus nodded uncertainly at the three incoherent toms and followed Munkustrap out of the den. “I’m sorry, I know it was a lousy time to—but it’s just been killing me and…” He trailed off, looking tentatively up at Munkustrap. Now he’d probably be in trouble for bothering the others when they needed sleep; he just couldn’t seem to do anything right.

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Munkustrap bumped his shoulder against Admetus. “Thank you,” he said. “You were a great support for me today.”

Admetus blinked in surprise. “What? Support? Me? I couldn’t even…” He gestured vaguely. Most of what Tugger and Alonzo had shouted from the barge had been completely lost on him, so he’d had to guess. And he didn’t feel like he’d been able to give Munkustrap any useful insights as to exactly what had happened or when they might be back.

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“Yes,” said Munkustrap. He hopped up onto an old washing machine, where he could keep an eye on things, and waited for Admetus to join him, before he went on, “You were there by my side, helping me when I needed things. You were diligent and reliable with everything I asked of you, from carrying messages to watching the lower bridge or keeping an eye on the kittens without letting them know how worried we were. It would have been very difficult managing things with just the few of us, without Alonzo and Tugger there, if you hadn’t stepped up.” He nuzzled his ear against Admetus’. “Thank you.”