Jul 25, 2025
A not-so hidden affair
Lucy May Barker as Grizabella, Micheal Robert-Lowe as Deuteronomy and an embarrassed Shem Omari James as Rum Tum Tugger.
Cats International Tour, 2025.
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A not-so hidden affair
Lucy May Barker as Grizabella, Micheal Robert-Lowe as Deuteronomy and an embarrassed Shem Omari James as Rum Tum Tugger.
Cats International Tour, 2025.
young deuteronomy and young grizabella
naturally :3 thanks for writing in!
there must've been a first dance right? there must've been a first dance!
Remember the vine? Yeah...
FINISHED
Thoughts on deutabella? I don’t see anyone mention them outside of deut bros:0
Oh I fricking love Deutabella! And you're right, never thought about that.
I just love their story, thinking about how they first met with Deut being this cat with 99 wives and all (giving tugger vibes ngl) and then Grizabella shows up. The Glamour cat, of course Deut falls head over heals for her just like everyone else. They fall in love and everything is great. Then for whatever reason (aka whatever headcanon works for you) she leaves and Deut is heartbroken. And when she finally comes back during the show you can literally see how much he still loves her but he can't be the one to bring her back to the tribe.
But then she's accepted back and all is well... Exept she's the Jellicle choice. So Deut cherishes every second of what he has left with her and then she's gone...
GAH WHY IS THEIR STORY SO TRAGIC?!
Nathan Zach Johnson in his Tugger debut for the 2022 Asia tour, singing the cast out at the end of the show!
Also featuring some Tumblecass flips (Matthew Levick and Taryn Donna Borman), Munkustrap and Victoria scampering into the audience (Matt Krzan and Isabella Roberts), a Pouncitoria tango (Cian Hughes as Carbuckety), and Deutabella being saucy and affectionate (Brad Little and Joanna Ampil).
(and here's the reason he got a debut.)
22 February 2023; video by @art.hooony and photo by rewind.min on insta.
Grizabella: (about to climb up to the Heaviside Layer) Well, I guess this is good-bye.
Old Deuteronomy: No, Grizabella. Good-byes are just hellos, carried across the wind until our paths intersect once again.
Grizabella: That's beautiful. (pauses part way up) And confusing.
A beautiful all-black Deuteronomy and Grizabella! Slindile Nodangala as Grizabella and Marcus Desando as Deuteronomy (X). They played together in the South African / World Tour production from 2001 to 2003.