Feb 1, 2022
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Zachary Daniel Jones as Mungojerrie, Robbie Nicholson as Carbuckety/henchcat, and Sam Lips as Alonzo. Broadway revival, late 2017 (X).
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... nothing to see here, moving on...
... to distractions!
Zachary Daniel Jones as Mungojerrie, Robbie Nicholson as Carbuckety/henchcat, and Sam Lips as Alonzo. Broadway revival, late 2017 (X).
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The cast of CATS (broadway revival 2016) with cats! (Except for Sillabub who has a dog)
Alonzo tries to get his flirt on over by the tyre, but Sillabub walks away and Mistoffelees walks right past him. Only Electra is seduced by his sashaying noodle hips and agrees to dance with him! They get a little couples moment with Plato and Sillabub.
Broadway revival: probably October 2017 or later, but I'm not sure about any of the actors except for Tyler Hanes as Tugger and Zachary Downer as Mistoffelees. I'm guessing Marc Heitzman as Plato, Sam Lips as Alonzo, and Mallory Michaellan as Electra.
Broadway revival: Emily Tate covering Victoria on two different occasions in 2017.
The first (Song of the Jellicles) is somewhere between 18 July and 27 July, if @skimblyclaus-is-comin-to-town and I are right about identifying Mistoffelees as Zachary Downer (started 18 July), Aaron Albano as Skimbleshanks (covered the role 13 June to 27 July), and Carbuckety as Jakob Karr (injured himself 6 August, and by the time he came back there were other cast changes). The others that we can pick are: Ahmad Simmons as Alonzo, Christopher Gurr as Gus, Lili Froelich as Electra, Zachary Daniel Jones as Mungojerrie, Andy Huntington Jones as Munkustrap, Quentin Earl Darrington as Deuteronomy, Daniel Gaymon as Plato, Tyler Hanes as Tugger, Andrew Wilson as Tumblebrutus.
The second (Warsaw) is between 3 and 29 October: several people are present who started on 3 October (Sam Lips as Alonzo, Aaron Albano back as Skimbleshanks, ?Marc Heitzman as Plato), but Electra still looks like Lili (left after 29 October). As in the first clip we have Zachary Downer, Zachary Daniel Jones, Andy Huntington Jones, Tyler Hanes, Quentin Earl Darrington, and Andrew Wilson; and that looks like Haley Fish as Rumpelteazer.
Study - confrontational Tugger in the Broadway revival (5/6)
The Great Mistoffelees Theft.
1: Tyler Hanes, July 2016
Tyler, August (Blackout for this section)
2: Tyler, October
3: Sam Lips, late 2017
4: Mcgee Maddox, March 2019 (US tour)
Tyler just struts around the circle enjoying everyone’s attention until he catches sight of Mistoffelees. Sam strides past them like he’s doing an inspection line and doesn’t seem to have a moment when he notices Mistoffelees and changes his course of action, just acts like that was the natural end point. Mcgee flirts with the others and the audience then prances over to claim Mistoffelees.
Tyler pretends he’s going in for a hug, pleading with Munkustrap - then reaching past him to Mistoffelees, setting Munkustrap up for humiliation but still focussed on Mistoffelees. Sam makes it more about Munkustrap, I think, turning it into a huffy ‘WHAT?’ challenge. Mcgee just straight-out shoves Munkustrap aside.
Study - confrontational Tugger in the Broadway revival (1/6)
Entrance.
1: Tyler Hanes, July 2016
2: Tyler, August
3: Tyler, October
4: Sam Lips, late 2017
5: Mcgee Maddox, March 2019 (US tour)
Part of what makes Tyler’s Tugger so interesting is that he deliberately played him differently every night. This has an interesting effect onstage: it plays into Tugger’s indecisiveness and uncertainty, so his movement and actions never look so planned and deilberate as those of Mcgee and Sam, but it also creates a certain tension there the other actors are never quite sure what he’s going to do. And this plays very well off Andy’s Munkustrap, who comes across as relatively young and nervous about his leadership position - you can feel him brace himself as Tugger stalks up to him, almost hear him thinking “oh shit, what’s Tugger going to do now, how am I going to deal with it”.
Incidentally, I love the little challenge eyebrow in the second one.
Sam moves like he’s angry or at least looking for a physical confrontation, Mcgee is busy showing off sexually, but Tyler seems to be making up what he’s doing from moment to moment, easily distractable and unpredictable.
Study - confrontational Tugger in the Broadway revival (3/6)
Tugger vs Jenny and Skimble.
1: Tyler Hanes, July 2016
2: Tyler, August
3: Tyler, October
4: Sam Lips, late 2017
5: Mcgee Maddox, March 2019 (US tour)
Poor over-anxious Skimble. :( Listen to Victoria and Cassandra: just let everyone have fun!
In some Jenny seems to swoon because he offers her a kiss or a smouldering glare, in others he seems to flick her or even bop her on the head. Hard to say!
1/6: Entrance 2/6: A terrible bore 3/6: Tugger vs Skimble 4/6: “… if you put it away on the larder shelf” 5/6: The Great Mistoffelees Theft 6/6: No need to spout it
Study - confrontational Tugger in the Broadway revival (6/6)
No need to spout it.
1: Tyler Hanes, July 2016
Tyler, August (Blackout for this section.)
2: Tyler, October
3: Sam Lips, late 2017
4: Mcgee Maddox, March 2019 (US tour)
Munkustrap and Alonzo cross in front of Tugger not long after his little dance with Mistoffelees. In the first one, Tyler catches Munkustrap’s eye then seems to stare after Alonzo in a slightly aggressive/challenging stance. In the second, he shoves Alonzo, who huffs and then follows Munkustrap’s example in deciding to ignore him and walk away, though not without a bit of a shake of his shoulders.
Sam just gives them each the stink-eye and some posturing dance moves as they pass, and Mcgee sort of ignores them but there’s a bit of dismissive flouncing there too.