#2005 chicago

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Various options for how to react if a curious cat decides to use you as furniture, as modelled by... 1. Plato: Pepe Muñoz and Edu del Prado, Madrid 2004.

2. Plato: Jeroen Luiten and Gino Emnes, Dutch tour 2007 (Breda).

3. Pouncival: Damian Kacperski? and Siegmar Tonk, Hamburg 1999.

4. Tumblebrutus: Brandon Tyler and Jeremy Hays, US tour 5 (Troika), Chicago  2005.

5. Admetus: Thomas Inge and George Hinson, International tour 2019 (Manila) - whence the audio.

6. Tantomile: Im Lan-jeong? and Jung Min, Korea 2011.

7 - Bonus: Tumblebrutus (Robert Hoshour?), Broadway 1984: Terrence Mann declines to recline.

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Mungojerrie and Pouncival causing hilarity and riot.

(US tour 5 / Troika tour, Chicago 2005)

@skimblyshanks @uppastthejelliclemoon @ask-theknockaboutcat @its-mangojelly

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Nathan Garland as Plato doing the final bow - and the flips! Chicago 2005, Troika tour.

(And here’s Rumpelteazer doing them in London in 1993...)

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The Rum Tum Tugger won’t let you down, but he might knock you down with the force of his enormous... personality.

Alonzo and Tumblebrutus resent it, but Cassandra and Pouncival don’t mind in the least.

US tour 5, Chicago 13 September 2005. Jeremy Hays as Tugger, Alex Ringler as Alonzo, Katherine Warner Johnson as Cassandra, Zachary Leigh Denison as Pouncival, and Brandon Tyler as Tumblebrutus.

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That awkward feeling when you got to all the trouble of a ball and a Jellicle choice and it turns out the Heavyside Layer’s closed for business today. Oops. Better send her back down again so she can join in the bows.

And look, Alonzo knows how to control a heavenly spaceship!

(Chicago, Troika tour 2005 - Alex Ringler as Alonzo and Esther Stillwell as Grizabella)

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A collection of Munkustraps, building (and demolishing) a train. And just... having fun. Being carefree. And a little bit silly.

Part 2 here.

1: Manning the... thing at the front, with the light on it? Matthew Pike, Hamburg 1999. (That’s Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer flailing around with the lampshade behind him in the second gif.)

2: Derek Hanson, holding up the front half of the ‘backbone’ of the train, Chicago 2005.

3a: Ian Laskowski, Boston 2007: as in Chicago, having to be very synchronised with Alonzo to make it look like they’re falling down ‘accidentally’, and managing to almost do a somersault while he does so.

3b: Malco Rev, Paris 1990, very deliberately pulling it down on top of himself.

4: Karl Warden, carefully guiding the wheel down to a safe spot without crushing any kittens, then a dramatic flop (La Mirada 2014).