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Have some Broadway Jacob!Misto and Michaelstrap spinning and jumping at you while looking very happy.

Also Ken Prymus as Deuteronomy, Roger Kachel as Mungojerrie, and Billy Johnstone as Coricopat.

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Billy Johnstone is an adorable Mungojerrie 💖

(US Tour 4)

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Skimblejump!

Billy Johnstone as Skimbleshanks, plus Todd Allen Walker as Alonzo, Stephanie Martignetti as Etcetera, Tyler Foy as Bill Bailey, Sam Berman as Rumpelteazer, and Roy Lightner as Mungojerrie; Wichita 2007.

Wichita masterpost here.

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Hey, remember when Kim Faure (Broadway revival Demeter) played Bombalurina?

No? Here you go: regional production in Wichita in 2007.

With Lisa Rohinsky as Demeter.

With Taurean Everett as Plato.

With Melinda Wakefield Alberty as Jellylorum (and, behind them, Aaron Umsted's yellow Carbuckety and Billy Johnstone's orange Skimbleshanks, who stay in the car boot and bounce excitedly for the duration of this number).

(Wichita masterpost)

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Olivia Policicchio as Victoria in the 2007 Wichita regional production; plus Roy Lightner as Mungojerrie

The two of them, plus Billy Johnstone as Skimbleshanks (Roy is in green, Billy is in blue).

Those three, plus Jenny (Annie Funke) and Carbuckety (Aaron Umsted)!

Carbuckety is kneeling in front.

Wichita masterpost here.

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Wichita 2007: the mystery of Carbuckety!

This production has too many orange boys. When I first saw it, I kept seeing too many Platos - or possibly too many Pouncivals! Basically, they have a Plato based on Broadway/Troika Plato (grey/brown with eye patch), and a Pouncival based on Broadway/Troika Pounce (nothing like London Carbuckety), and a Bill Bailey based on Broadway/Troika Tumblebrutus... and... uh. A Carbuckety, who seems to be based on Admetus.

Add that to Mungojerrie and Skimble (and a limited makeup palette!) and you have lots of orange. Let's break it down.

(Wichita masterpost here.)

Here's Carbuckety (Aaron Umsted) with Alonzo (Todd Alllen Walker). Not that Carbuckety's unitard is base yellow and his wig and arm/legwarmers are mostly orange; he has a white muzzle extending down over his chin, and his eyebrow/lashes streak up over his forehead. He has a distinct white 'blaze' coming back up from his nose to his wig, faintly outlined with black. (Also Alonzo is pretty.)

Carbuckety is also part of the Raffish crew! Left to right, him, Alonzo, Skimble (Billy Johnstone), Tugger (Alex Michael Stoll), Munkustrap (Johnny Stellard).

By comparison, Mungojerrie and Pouncival are Siamese. (Left to right: Bill Bailey (Tyler Foy), Tantomile (Paige Williams), Growltiger (Nicholas Saverine), Pouncival (Ryan Koss), Mungojerrie (Roy Lightner). Coricopat (David Caamano) is kneeling in front.)

Here are Coricopat and Pouncival (Cori still in Siamese get-up from the head down). Coricopat has his usual asymmetrical makeup. Pouncival has grey in his wig, his eye patches are centred on the eye socket rather than extending down from the wig, he doesn't have very distinct patches on his unitard (unlike Bill Bailey), and he has no white on his forehead or chin (unlike Carbuckety, Skimbleshanks, and Mungojerrie).

Now, Carbuckety here isn't exactly Admetus (any more than any of them are exact copies of any Broadway or London design). But when it's translated under the stage lights, he's about as recognisable as an Admetus type as any of the others are for their own stage antecedents. Basically, he's a tall redhead with symmetrical makeup and eyebrows, and he hangs around looking benevolent in the background a lot! (He's especially cute when he bounces with Skimble in the car during the Gumbie Cat tap section.)

But he isn't Plato. Just to clear up all the eye patch boys in one post... here's Plato (Taureen Everett). This is a very definite Broadway/Troika boy - and in no way orange!

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Tumblebrutus swooning into Alonzo’s arms when Skimbleshanks startles him.

Billy Johnstone as Skimbleshanks, Todd Allen Walker as Alonzo, and Tyler Foy as Tumblebrutus; Wichita 2007.