#phyllida crowley smith

[verdicloud]

so i was listening to one direction and i realised that their song “hey angel” basically sums up how i feel about phyllida crowley smith and her as victoria, so here’s a collage of phylltoria :

her beauty is ineffable. she is the heaviside layer incarnate. she is the epitome of mystical divinity. she shines brighter than the jellicle moon. she is THE victoria.

jo gibb who?? my heart belongs to philly only

(no homo tho. definitely. i think.)

[noriseyebrow]

Victoria for KittensWeek

[uppastthejelliclemoon]

1998 platoria supremacy

[noriseyebrow]

Victoria

[junkyard-gifs]

A medley of Victorias performing the white cat solo. Too late for Dame Gillian's birthday, but this is the sequence that always reminds me most strongly of her voice.

(Almost to 2021!  I don't have footage of Tyler Lotzof in that final pose, but the Vienna revival is still technically ongoing despite certain temporary setbacks, so at least it brings us up to current productions.)

In the lead-in: Phyllida Crowley Smith (1998 film); Anique Bosch (Dutch tour, 2006–07) ; Allison Little (Fifth US tour, 2010–11)

In the solo itself: Finola Hughes (London 1981) ; ?Alexandra Young (Vienna 1984) ; ?Angela Savage (Zurich 1992 - and Lindsay Chambers' Mistoffelees scooting off into the corner); Rebecca Sutherland (Hamburg 1999); Teresa Cora (Madrid 2003–04) ; Georgina Pazcoguin (Broadway 2016) ; Mykaila Symes (RCCL/Oasis 2017) ; Hannah Kenna Thomas (Vienna 2019).

[whitmerule]

sir.

sir, excuse me, how dare you.

[cettiecetera]

Knowing that Phyllida was pregnant and Bryn’s hand was injured for pretty much the entirety of filming, I look at the pas de deux very differently now.

[prettynerdieworks]

Phyllida Crowley Smith performs Victoria’s solo in CATS (1998)