#Cats broadway revival

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[rabnerd28]

Chronicling the Cats Broadway Revival Lifts

Hey, you know how we joke that you could make a drinking game out of all the lifts that they do in the Broadway Revival? Don’t do it. You will die of alcohol poisoning before the Jellicle Ball.

4:54 Electra, Victoria and Tantomile are all lifted during the "Heaviside Layer" line of Jellicle Songs for Jellicles Cats (3)

9:20 Electra and Tantomile during Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats. (2)

9:28 Not a lift, but Tanto, Victoria and Electra are swung forward across the floor. Doesn’t count but I’m marking vaguely lifting actions.

14:41 Sillabub is lifted in the background at the start of Invitation. There might be more cats being lifted but my bootleg is mostly focused on the main cats for each number. (1)

14:50 Not even a full 10 seconds later, Sillabub and another cat (I think it’s Tantomile) are lifted again. (2)

18:45 Coricopat and Skimbleshanks lift Jenny so that a ball can go under her (1)

19:39 Bomba and Demeter grab Jenny and slide her across the large sports balls. (Side note: I really fucking hate the balls. Why are they in this number???)

23:28 Tumble and Plato lift Victoria and Tugger walks under her. (1)

22:36 Rumpleteazer, Demeter and Victoria are all lifted (3)

23:40 Victoria and Tanto are flung forward and then flung back.

24:05 Electra, Tantomile, Victoria and Rumpleteazer are held on at their armpits as they drop so that they would be flat on their faces if their partners weren’t holding them, followed by said partners lifting them off the ground and spinning them. I’m counting it. (4)

24:32 Tantomile and Victoria are spun on the ground and then lifted by cats right after. (2)

26:08 Sillabub, Victoria and Electra are mid cartwheel when their partners (Mungojerrie, Plato and Pouncival (?)) grab them and slow them down. Tantomile is then lifted by Coricopat. (1)

All lift adjacent behaviors are forgiven for Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer. What’s not forgiven is how literal the choreography is.

39:25 We went almost a full fifteen minutes. Coricopat lifts Tantomile when they first sense Old Deuteronomy. (1)

39:34 Once again, Tanto is lifted by Cori. (1)

40:14 Tanto climbs on Cori’s back and Victoria climbs on Plato’s and they are lifted. (2)

43:15 Victoria is lifted by Alonzo, Tanto is lifted by Cori (?). (2)

45:07 Mungojerrie lifts Rumpleteazer onto the stage, same for Cori and Tanto. They then lift them both again to go behind Old Deuteronomy. Followed by another lift after those. (6)

45:22 Munkustrap carries Victoria out to the front of the stage, then hand her to Plato, who lifts her, alongside Sillabub being lifted by Tumble (3)

46:23 Tumble lifts Sillabub (1)

46:40 Victoria, Electra and Tanto are all lifted by multiple cats. (3)

47:06 Several cats are supported during their arabesques

48:20 Teazer, Tanto, Sillabub and Victoria are all lifted, followed by Victoria being lifted a second time (5)

49:40 Electra, Demeter, Victoria, Tanto and Teazer are all lifted pretty much upside down (5)

50:18 Plato picks up Victoria for a little run lift thing, followed by carrying her as she does a cartwheel. (2)

50:29 Tanto, Teazer, Sillabub, Bombalurina (her first lift) and Victoria are lifted. Everyone but Vicky gets lifted a second time. (9)

51:33 Vicky gets lifted twice for the Pas de Deux (2)

52:58 Tanto is lifted (1)

54:16 Sillabub and Electra are both lifted twice (4)

55:16 Tanto and Tori are lifted…twice in a row (4)

55:50 Tanto, Tori, Teazer and Sillabub (4)

56:09 Tori, Tanto, Sillabub (3)

56:23 You know, Victoria’s big lift would be really impressive if we didn’t just see 100 of them before it (1)

I’m surprised they didn’t work a lift into Memory

At intermission we have 79 lifts…I am loosing my goddamn mind. I am actively crying from how funny this is.

1:36:48 Victoria and Electra were flung forward

1:49:25 Victoria is lifted. I thought we were going to make it through the whole second act without one, but nope. (1)

We end with a total of 80 lifts.

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Broadway Revival (2016)

Gus, Tugger, Munkustrap, Skimbleshanks

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Gillian Lynne had a very brief amount of time with us. In the time we had with her, she attempted to cram 35 years of feline essence into less than 15 minutes of rehearsal. She did it. With some words but, mainly, with one gesture. “Now—I don’t want to disparage American performers, but Americans on the stage are usually saying, ‘LOOK AT ME!!!,’” she said, and her body did an odd little ghost of a George-M.-Cohan-meets-Al-Jolson-meets-Liza-Minnelli-meets-Liberace gesture. “But cats…” Her eyes lit up and narrowed at the same time, “…cats say—” And, in a flash, she shot up, one foot off the ground, and spun every line of her 89-year-old body up-up-up in a plume of arms and hands and eyes and—“‘Look at me!’” It was a one-second move. It said everything you’d ever need to know about Cats.

-Christopher Gurr, (Asparagus (Gus)/Bustopher Jones) from the CATS, Broadway revival. Jezebel 'Is the Stage Cast of Cats Embarrassed? An Inquiry' (x)

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Broadway Revival Mistoffelees dance break, they could never make me hate you.

[tuggerlurina]

my phone's being a jackass , but i literally couldn't not share this on a blog devoted to tuggerlurina

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ELECTRIC GIRL

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@theimpossiblescheme asked: My Top Five Gus the Theatre Cats 

Joachim Kemmer Rory Campbell Yngve Gasoy Romdal Christopher Gurr Lucius Wolter Runners Up: Stephen Hanan, Toshihide Mura (村 俊英), Philippe Ermelier, John Anker Bow, Hal Fowler, Richard Poole, Wim Van Den Driessche, Gene Scheer, and Ian Jon Bourg   (Note this excludes film/video Guses as well as CD only Guses)

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Macavity!

Designed him as a chimera tortie after the current us revival design. Saw it on stage a couple weeks back (us tour 6) and immediately was struck with a visage of this design in my brain. For once it wasn't hard from a visualizing standpoint. I felt this one. Macavity

[skimblyshanks]

I'm so very normal about this gif of mine, ok I'm so very normal abt alonzos smile at misto's spin I'm so very normal about Alonzoffelees and about how they're in love and about this gif ok I just am.

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the curious cat himself !!!!!!

close ups i guess ? vvv

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Just a causal reminder that he went on for this track 6 times and if there exists performance footage of his tugger I would sell my organs for it

[white-cat-of-doom]

A pair of signed, stage-used jazz shoes from the Broadway Revival in 2016, used by Kolton Krouse as Tumblebrutus.

Kolton played the role from opening until the following January in 2017, but was also a Swing, Carbucketty, and Coricopat (in that order) afterwards until November 2017. He also notably played a Chorus Cat in the 2019 movie.

Well-worn and quite thoroughly patched in many places, these shoes saw a lot of action! They are also interestingly lace-up shoes, which, for a show like CATS, are brave to wear!

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Broadway Revival (2016)

Rumpleteazer

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Save me victeazer save me

[gotham-native]

i don't know about anyone else, but i have personal beef with bway revival chorography for Rum Tum Tugger