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My Aussie tour footage - master list

This list will be added to whenever I edit or add more videos from my own footage, here or on youtube. It'll be ongoing over months or years since one of the joys of this show is just going back over footage and Finding Background Moments, but I do intend to make at least one more boot and a few compilations in the next few weeks after tour close.

Any footage I post publically (ie, anything here) you may feel free to redistribute or re-edit or gif. I would love to be tagged and/or attributed so I can enjoy the fact that you're enjoying it too! but it's public so it's public, do what you like.

next project: polishing up one at least of my melbourne boots so we have some Tim Misto and maybe a Joe Munk or Jemiteazer split track!

FULL BOOTS: 08/10/25 Adelaide (covers: Ella Fitzpatrick as Victoria, Dominique Hamilton as Jemima, note that a lot of the second half of act ii is audio only due to tech failure - the exceptions are one minute of 'Mistoffelees', and the curtain call which was filmed on phone) - mega 09/10/25 Adelaide (all first cast) - youtube, mega

CLIPS: Melbourne, 31/1/2026 (closing night for Melbourne) - 2nd half of the jellicle ball Melbourne, 15/01/26: Moonlight sung by Rumpelteazer (Savannah Lind) as a split track with an absent Jemima - Tanto is also absent Melbourne, 18/01/26 plus rehearsal footage from May 2025: Copland to cartwheels Melbourne, 18/01/26: two clips from 'Tugger' (plus gifs from another night) Melbourne, 28/12/25: 'Journey' through to curtain call, with a technical mishap that leaves us all sitting in the dark for a while because Grizabella got stuck mid-ascension [NEW]

AUDIO 17/06/25 (Sydney, first preview). Covers: Aimee Jones as Grizabella. (Axel Alvarez is Mistoffelees at this time.) 18/06/25 (Sydney, second preview). Covers: Aimee Jones as Grizabella. (Axel Alvarez is Mistoffelees at this time.) SHOW REPORTS / CURTAIN CALLS: 17/06/25 (Sydney, first preview) 08/10/25 (Adelaide) 09/10/25 (Adelaide) 28/12/25 (Melbourne) 08/01/26 (Melbourne) 14/01/26 (Melbourne) 15/01/26 (Melbourne) 18/01/26 matinee (Melbourne) 18/01/26 evening (Melbourne) 24/01/26 (Melbourne) 25/01/26 matinee (Melbourne)

COMPILATIONS/EDITS: Ooo, sparkly! Various ways Rumpelteazer takes Misto's jacket from Tugger Axel Alvarez as Mistoffelees

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Jal Joshua covering Mistoffelees, Asia tour 24/12/2020.

Sources a, b, c.

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Teasing the Tugger #6: ATTACK THE BUTT and ROLL THE MUNK

ok this is Melbourne closing night and Joe Miller is Munk again and he didn't wait for Tugger to start flirting with the audience he saw the butt and

he just pounced and clawed all the way down butt and thighs and scampered away giggling saying CHASE ME CHASE ME

the results of this poll are in: tugger should POUNCE HIM it will make him very gleeful let Munk have zoomies

Also no I cannot keep the camera still when I am cackling wildly, sorry.

other tugger teasings!

2025 Australia tour, 31 January 2026. Des Flanagan as Tugger andJoe Miller covering Munkustrap (my footage).

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this is very important

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Tumblebrutus and Electra come onstage for Act II and immediately get into a cuddle-fight - much to Plato’s distress. He is an earnest young protector and can’t let anything happen to them!

(Meanwhile, Skimbleshanks is just out of shot, looking sternly around to make sure everything’s safe and not giving the wrestling kittens a second glance.)

Nils Haberstroh as Tumblebrutus and (probably) Jo Lucy Rackham as Electra; Plato may be Adam Margilewski or Ross McDermott. German tent tour, Mannheim 2011.

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I think venus flytraps should be intelligent and ambulatory. I think they should get into the cupboards. I think they should purr when you pet them.

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OP there is an entire Broadway musical explaining why you don’t want that

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There’s a Broadway musical about them, too.

[cipheramnesia]

There’s gotta be a better way to learn about things than Broadway musicals.

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For the record, I am in no sense ambulatory, though I confess to being on a mission to smother the world in my offspring.

I am also a certified traffic hazard, if it helps.

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Musicals (broadway or west end or otherwise) are super educational actually! For example, they suggest that interbreeding alien predatory plants with hyperfertile dancing cats would result in the world being overrun with giant sexy cat plants with weird moon rituals who push everything over and also obstruct traffic.

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Sometimes, a kitten gets over-excited...

... and incurs the Skimblescold 😔 (also a bap on the ear from Bill Bailey who's doing his best to blame it all on Carbuckety)

Luckily for Carbuckety, Skimbleshanks is a complete pushover if you just make sad eyes at him for a minute. Gotta reassure the baby that he's still loved, after all!

Riccardo Sinisi as Carbuckety, Gerben Grimmius as Skimbleshanks, Nathan Luke as Bill Bailey, and Florian Fetterle's Munkustrap glowering in the background there. Vienna revival, 21/6/22; filmed by @falasta and @cryptidvoidwritings.

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Gus knows how to dance a gavotte and a jig too!

... or he used to. Oops.

Igor Balalayev as Gus, Alexander Babenko as Mistoffelees, and Marat Abdrakhimov as Skimbleshanks; Moscow 2005 (X).

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Brad Little as Deuteronomy and the company of the 2020 Asia tour.

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Jal Joshua’s Carbuckety continues to do anything but tap his toes to mark the triple beat before Skimble runs in. 

With Thomas Inge as Admetus and Hayden Baum as Skimbleshanks, 2020 Asia tour, 13 January matinee , 13 January evening, and 14 January 2021.

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get up alonzo ur better than this

(1992 london cats, vincent leigh and neil johnson)

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Singing, just singing in the rain....

Jarrod Draper went straight from Aussie tour Munkustrap to being Raoul in an open-air venue floating in the middle of Sydney Harbour. Sometimes, this means a kitty gets wet. While singing, with a noose around his throat.

The good news is Christine's skirt remains poofy.

With Jake Lyle and Amy Manford as the Phantom and Christine (X).

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Ana Milva Gomes as Babygriz in 'the Naming of Cats'; with Rory Six as Deuteronomy and Florian Fetterle as Munkustrap.

Vienna revival, 21/6/22. Filmed by @cryptidvoidwritings and @falasta.

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Munkustrap is So Very Done with this day.

Regan Featherstone as Munkustrap and Luke Jarvis as Alonzo, Oasis cast 9 (2019).

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Please look upon this fabulous Tantomile.

Heather Lea Gerdes, London 1984.

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Pouncival found a new friend! Look, the friend gave him a fancy new set of clothes! This friend is so cool! BEST DAY EVER!! Selfie time!!!!

Meanwhile, Macavity is starting to reconsider all his life choices. He never realised how bubbly kittens can be. It’s totally throwing out his groove.

(Axel Alvarez as Pouncival and Nicholas Turconi as Macavity, Paris 2015.)

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Teasing the Tugger #6: ATTACK THE BUTT and ROLL THE MUNK

ok this is Melbourne closing night and Joe Miller is Munk again and he didn't wait for Tugger to start flirting with the audience he saw the butt and

he just pounced and clawed all the way down butt and thighs and scampered away giggling saying CHASE ME CHASE ME

the results of this poll are in: tugger should POUNCE HIMit will make him very gleeful let Munk have zoomies

Also no I cannot keep the camera still when I am cackling wildly, sorry.

other tugger teasings!

2025 Australia tour, 31 January 2026. Des Flanagan as Tugger andJoe Miller covering Munkustrap (my footage).

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Perhaps the most ultimate adorable (and enthusiastic) 'quick change' transition ever. Kenan Lewis Smith as Tumblebrutus and José Raul Mangual as Tugger, Oasis cast 18. (X)