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2025 Australia tour - bows and show report (14/1/26, matinee)

Really fun matinee today! Everyone was having so much fun, feeding off each other and being happy and playful.

And fun with covers and split tracks! Savannah Lind gave us a fascinating Rumpel/Jemi split (assisted by Des Flanagan who decided Tugger needed to live his best Jemima life during “Skimbleshanks”). Plus Dominique Hamilton as Deme, Xavier Pellin as Misto, Thalia Smith as Cass, Aimee Jones as Jelly, and a very lovely Griz from Lucy Maunder. (Tanto and Jemi were cut).

(…. Can you tell I was looking at the stage and not at my phone when filming this….. 🤭)

My favourite moment in this night's curtain call footage is Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer experimenting with dance moves and comforting each other for not being as good as Mistoffelees. But obviously always love any flirty playful Jarrodstrap moments, like teasing Alonzo or polishing the stage for Tugger to pose on. And Tugger getting distracted by playing with his own tail!

Other fun results of the split track (and Tanto’s absence):

Lone Josh Cori gets to be extra friendly with other cats (including some lovely cuddles with Cass at the start of "Moments of Happiness")

Rumpelteazer singing “Moonlight” with only Cori to hold her hand (and just generally being In Touch With Her Mystic Side for the night)

Only the three central couples for the honky-tonk, no mungoteazer and coricomile (I had hoped Victoria might step in and dance with Cori but alas).

Rumpelteazer reaching out to Griz during “glamour cat” and being chased by Skimble into the corner and cuddled by him.

Victeazer collecting the rainbow ribbon bucket from Misto!

Instead of Misto freezing Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer during his number, he freezes Mungojerrie and Alonzo (Alonzo did not agree to this).

you know how, with new P&P, rumpelteazer doesn’t get to dive between the munkuthighs anymore? WELL FEAR NOT today she got to do it at the start of song of the jellicles instead. The balance of the world has been restored.

Without Tanto and Teazer to sit with him in front of the train, Misto had to pick his own flea out of his ear when Skimble mentioned the subject. 😔

best of all - I don’t know if this was planned or just Des being Des but part of Jemima’s track in Skimbleshanks was played by Tugger! He decided to lie down next to Vic to join the sleeping car, then flirted with her to create the “hilarity and riot” for Skimble to break up!

Fun things that had nothing to do with split tracks:

Munk was so relaxed about Deme and Tugger today! At one point where he usually hisses and lashes at Tugger to drive him away from her, he instead gave them each a lovely nuzzle.

Deme and Tugger spent almost the entirety of “Gus” doing some very warm loving nuzzles and cuddles ending up with her draped over his body, very pretty, very nice. 😌

… followed by Tugger nudging Misto during “Skimbleshanks” so that they both pounced on Deme to give her a scare on “one FLASH of his glass-green eyes”. But Deme was all trusting and cuddly by now and not skittish, so no harm done.

Edmetus was doing some lovely self-indulgent stretches using the oven as a scratching post at one point then MACAVITY SCARE and he fell over with zero dignity

Xavier went for some supersonic speed conjuring turns today!

Cori’s response to the second Macavity scare today was some impromptu aggressive yoga. Must have worked, since Macavity didn't turn up for another hour.

Cast is: Edward Smith (Admetus/Macavity), Rania Potaka-Osborne (Alonzo), Todd McKenney (Asparagus/Bustopher), Charlie Follows (Bill Bailey), Mia Dabkowski-Chandler (Bombalurina), Guy Pik (Carbuckety), Thalia Smith (Cassandra), Joshua Gordon (Coricopat), Dominique Hamilton (Demeter), Mark Vincent (Deuteronomy), Lucy Maunder (Grizabella), Aimee Jones (Jellylorum), Leigh Archer (Jennyanydots), Xavier Pellin (Mistoffelees), Jake O’Brien (Mungojerrie), Jarrod Draper (Munkustrap), Savannah Lind (Rumpelteazer/Jemima), Des Flanagan (Rum Tum Tugger), Tom Davis (Skimbleshanks), and Ella Fitzpatrick (Victoria).

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Munkustrap presents: Jellyanydots

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Gracie Anderson taking a well-earned intermission nap, during a partial split track (Victoria and Cassandra).

2021 US tour, 29 April 2022.

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On 26 February 2022, with several of the female cast of the US tour absent or sick, Elana Valastro had her first split track... but which characters?

Makeup is that of Sillabub: Elana's tracks are Sillabub, Demeter, Bombalurina, Tantomile, and Rumpelteazer.

We knew from other actors' instas that Brianna Kim (usually Sillabub) was covering Rumpelteazer. Lauren Louis (Demeter) was present but had covered Bombalurina in the previous performance, so she might have been playing either character. A Sillabub/Tantomile split was possible, but in that case she'd presumably wear Sillabub's costume, not Tanto's, and @the-metaphorical-jellicle-cat's account of the show proved that Tantomile had been onstage. Most likely, then, was Sillabub/Demeter or Sillabub/Bomba... either of which seems incredible!

But on 5 March, when Chelsea Nicole Mitchell (first-cast Bombalurina) was doing an instagram takeover, we got our answer!

Someone who had seen the 26 Feb performance in Jacksonville sent in a compliment to Elana on her 'Sillabubalurina' performance. Then I sent a request for more details - a little impertinently, and not really expecting an answer, as it was off-topic for Chelsea's takeover, but she kindly responded anyway!

Question: Saw the show in Jacksonville. I missed you but Elana smashed it as Sillabubalurina! Much love! Chelsea: She's a woman of many talents. She's on as Demeter today. She does it all! Elana: Yay! Aw, thank you so much! That's amazing! Question: Bombabub split track! 🙀 How does that work? And in which costume? Chelsea: Okay, I was not there, but what I think happened is that she wore.... Sillabub's costume?? and did just - all the features of both.

So Sillabub, who (at least according to the casting calls for the fifth US tour) canonically idolises Bombalurina and wants to be like her, for one show got to actually be her - sexy Macavity number and all! Love that for the bub. ❤️

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Jellyanydots and Vickybub 😌

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Audio and photo of Corey John Snide (Coricopat and dance captain) covering Jennyanydots, when many of the cast members were down with the flu: Broadway, December 12 2016.

The original post of this only exists in reblogs, since OP has deleted their blog. Here is the text of it:

I kinda wish I was joking, but I’m not. If you haven’t read, the flu is sweeping through Cats and they’re missing an abundance of cast members AND swings. With no one to cover Jennyanydots, they were left with one option: send on the dance captain to do the tap number. And who is the dance captain?

…Corey John Snide, or Coricopat.

So he did the dance, wore the gumbie suit over his coricopat costume, and sang the lines.

Harris Milgrim is Munk, Megan Ort is Jellylorum, Christine Cornish Smith is Bombalurina, and Kim Fauré is Demeter. Enjoy.

They also wrote a longer account of the performance, which exists only on the wayback machine, so I’ve made a copy of that here too, so as to have all the Coreyanydots in one place. Note also their comments on other split tracks, like Jelly/Jemima: Jellylorum singing Jemima’s solos is an interesting change! I’ve included a photo from Megan’s instagram to give an impression of the craziness for the swings...

Report on the Cats Broadway December 12th performance, featuring Corey John Snide as Jennyanydots, and Kim Fauré’s first performance back as Demeter!

I almost didn’t go to the show yesterday, but when my friend texted me a picture of the board, I knew I had to. Here was the situation with missing cast members:

Injuries: Arianna Rosario (Sillabub), Madison Mitchell (swing)

Flu: Lili Froelich (Electra), Andy Huntington Jones (Munkustrap), Eloise Kropp (Jennyanydots), Emily Pynenburg (Cassandra)

Vacation/swing outs: Sarah Jane Shanks (Jellylorum), Shonica Gooden (Rumpleteazer), Kolton Krouse (Tumblebrutus)

And the breakdown tonight: Electra- Maria Briggs Jellylorum/Sillabub- Megan Ort Rumpleteazer- Francesca Granell Cassandra- Claire Camp Munkustrap- Harris Milgrim Tumblebrutus- Callan Bergmann Jennyanydots- Corey John Snide

Here’s the problem. Francesca Granell is the only Jenny cover as far as we know. She’s the only one who has gone on so far at least. But she was already scheduled for Rumpleteazer all week. Megan may cover Jenny, but she was already scheduled as Jelly. My guess is that if she knew it, she would’ve been Jenny. But she didn’t. That leaves no one available for the role, so drastic measures had to be taken.

Jennyanydots only existed for her number. The decision was made for Corey to do it because as the dance captain he already knew the dance, he’s taught it many times. It just made sense. He wore the fringe outfit and the coat and the hat over his Coricopat unitard and makeup and wig. No sparkly heels were worn, just his regular black shoes with taps on them. But he sang the Jenny lines and did the tap solo, and then ran offstage at the end to become Coricopat again. People I talked to said they didn’t even realize it was a guy doing it. They never acknowledged the fact that Jenny was being played by a man. Everything was exactly the same except the person doing the number. And Corey… did a surprisingly good job. He kinda made his voice higher to sing it, and tried to just embody the role. It was pretty wild but I think he did it justice. Something tells me he’ll be doing it for a few days more. Sounded like he had a good time though. Tyler said one of the swings filmed it backstage, so who knows…. that may turn up eventually.

Anyway- all the girls are sick or injured so they’re basically out of female swings. It’s a bit of an issue to say the least. Jenny didn’t exist in the rest of the show- her lines in Bustopher were covered by Jellylorum, but other than that she was just gone. Poor Skimble during the ball….!

But the really interesting part of the night after Jenny happened was the split track of Jellylorum/Sillabub. In the last few days, the only character in a split track listed on the understudy board is the one that the swing is wearing the costume for. So when Megan was listed as Jellylorum/Sillabub, I wondered if she would be changing costumes at all. But no- she just sang all of Sillabub’s lines including the mini Memory’s, and covered important blocking/choreo that Sillabub has (again, during Moments of Happiness and Memory).

And it was Kim Fauré’s first show back! You may recall she’s been out with a broken nose, but she has  returned and was a wonderful as she used to be! Robin Masella, the t/r Demeter, is sticking around as a booth singer/eventual swing at least for a while.

Harris is an amazing Munkustrap- this was my third time seeing him and I LOVE his take on the character. He does a truly lovely job. Fran is an adorable Rumpleteazer- she’s always struggled with it a bit choreography wise (the double cartwheel lost momentum and ended early tonight) but vocally she’s a powerhouse. I first saw her RT in September and she’s gone on a few times since then and has improved quite a bit. Megan is a an awesome Jellylorum and I loved her vocally as Sillabub a LOT!!

In the past few days, Cassandra/Tantomile has been a split track (Emily P sick, Georgina Pazcoguin out performing in The Nutcracker, so Emily T went on as Victoria). But now that Gina and Emily T are back in their usual roles, that freed up Claire to JUST do Cassandra. Which was necessary because I saw the split track yesterday and a lot had to be changed and cut including Cassandra’s light up unitard during Mistoffelees (Claire was officially Tantomile, and only did some of the important Cassandra choreo). All that was restored tonight with the track not being split.

So why not cut Electra? Maria doesn’t know Jenny. Or Rumpleteazer, so no one could’ve gone on for Jenny anyway. Until Shonica is back (freeing up Fran) or Eloise gets better, we’re most likely stuck with Corey as Jenny. Which is… an interesting thing. I enjoyed it a lot.

And through all this, Tyler Hanes remains untouchable. He is now the only cast member to never miss a single show. Rumor has it Ahmad Simmons is going on for Tugger sometime in January though and I CANNOT wait to see that…

Questions welcome!

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Does anyone know if Blonde has split-tracks floating around?