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The Rum Tum Tugger is a terrible bore!
... you touch the Mistoffelees? You bap him on the shoulder and expect him to fawn over you like one of your fan club? Oh! Dramatic hissy fits for Tugger!!
Alex Snova as Tugger and Riccardo Sinisi as Mistoffelees; Vienna revival, March 2022.
Deep Fir Diesel (#051400 to #220300)
ok, let's talk about this one utterly Tugger mannerism: the mane-pop.
The Munkustance is a Munkustrap mannerism, and it's scripted and deliberate and passed on in staging tradition. The Tugger mane-pop is not, or not exactly: it originates not in 'ok, your character stands like this at these moments' but in a practical necessity of the costume.
Alex Snova, Vienna revival, March 2022.
Look at this great big heavy thing (which nevertheless moves so lightly and freely, thank you yak hair)! But when he spins around like that to talk to Jemima, it rides up and back a bit. When he hears Bomba's voice and turns around, he pops the mane to get it back into position and tugs at the bottom centre of the vest it's attached to, re-settling it into position.
But it's not just a practical 'oh, gotta fix a costume malfunction' (like an actor discreetly re-adjusting a legwarmer that's falling down). For Tugger it's a mannerism, it's part of his swagger—or he can use it for aggression if it's combined with a hiss. Here, it's "oh, you wanna go? ok, challenge accepted, let me get my sexy saunter on!"
It comes out of the practicalities of an awkward but highly iconic costume piece and evolves into a very Tugger-specific set of gestures and expressions which can be used to characterise him in a lot of different moments and moods, and I think that's wonderful. 😌
excuse? an Alonzo needs affection?
hello? he can has a leg??
helloooo??? 🥺
George Maniadis' Alonzo and his ongoing quest for Affection and Affirmation from Munkustrap. (That's his emotional support munkuthigh!)
Vienna revival: March 2022 (boot master unknown), with Alexander Auler; and 19 and 21 June 2022, with Florian Fetterle (footage by @cryptidvoidwritings and @falasta).
but wait there's more
While Mistoffelees sparkles...
... Tugger stares with absolute heart-eyes.
(Then seems to say to Jellylorum 'look, I bet he'll let me dance with him, watch this!' before heading over to do their little wiggle-dance moment together.)
Riccardo Sinisi as Mistoffelees and Alex Snova as Tugger; Vienna revival, March 2022.
dances sarcastically
he will join the dance but he will Not Have Fun 😾
(it's alright, Victoria doesn't mind that he didn't enter into her interests like Admetus does: she chose Alonzo tonight for the pas de deux anyway!)
George Maniadis (of course) as Alonzo, Hannah Kenna Thomas as Victoria, and Nicholas Li as Admetus. Vienna revival, March 2022.
send help, Alexander "nsfw" Auler is flirting at the audience again 😳
(Vienna revival, March 2022.)
Tugger will teach Munkustrap to have fun if it kills him!
…. Munkustrap.exe has stopped working.
Jelly is a faster learner. And Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer are… doing the Macarena?? no need to teach them about fun.
Vienna revival, March 2022: Alex Snova as Tugger, Alexander Auler as Munkustrap, Karin Seyfried as Jellylorum, Andrea Luca Cotti as Mungojerrie, and Vicky Riddoch as Rumpelteazer.
