#Jack Rebaldi

[naturepointstheway]

"I'll never be one of those who do playlists for ships" I said. "I never have had that desire before."

Until today - this song, Perhaps, by Doris Day is SUCH a Bombastrap (specifically Rebaldistrap) song, and of course I realise this right in the middle of dance class (this is one of the songs we use to warm up.)

Now all I need is a prior Bombalurina to sing this.

[mngojerrie]

i can’t believe i haven’t mentioned jack rebaldi on this account yet… literally the munkustrap ever.

[uppastthejelliclemoon]

Munkoffelees please? :3

For you, of COURSE!!! (also for @per-the-jellicle-magician who also requested munkoffelees!!!)

Rebaldistrap and Akihiroffelees!!

Jack Rebaldi is just… the quintessential Munkustrap imo. Every time i see footage of him, it’s just him being the perfect Munk, and I love him so so much.

And while I can’t find footage of Akihiro Hanebuchi’s Mistoffelees, the images I’ve found of him are just the most regal Mistoffelees!

So i love love love the idea of a Munkoffelees pair who are so regal and proper, but they have such a soft spot for each other. I think they’d be the perfect Munkoffelees within the context of the Jellicles being almost like a kingdom- with the Jellicle Leader and their family being royalty in a way.

[mangledpuppet]

[junkyard-gifs]

honestly i ought to be IDing the actors here but a) everyone knows that Munk at least right? and b) honestly I feel like this really is just. Demeter and Munk hanging out. at a party. being themselves. yes girl your hair game is on point today. literally.

(Ok fine: Jack Rebaldi and Guadalupe Lancho.)

Madrid (2003)

Demeter, Munkustrap

[millenari]

i love that Cats performers just seem to universally hate cats 98 and its shitass cinematography

[gotham-native]

Hey sissy

Spill your favorite Munkustrap designs NOW

Normal and fancy ones

XO

JJ what is the point of going Anonymous if your just going to tell me it's you.....

Anyway here he is

Broadway 1996 (Michael Gruber)

Hamburg 1991 (Tee Jaye)

Paris 1989 (Matthew Jessner)

1998 Film (Michael Gruber)

Nagoya 1999 (Shoichi Fukui)

Yokohama 2009 (Kiyomichi Shiba)

Berlin 2002-04 (Jack Rebaldi)

Copenhagen 2002 (Mats Hellgren)

Moscow 2005 (Ivan Ozhogin)

South Korea 2008 (Hong Gyeong-su)

UK Tour 2018 (Jak Skelly)

UK Tour 2019 (Luke Fraser Yates)

Asia Tour 2020 South Korea 2020 (Rafe Watts)

Gothenburg 2006

Kilworth House Theatre 2019

Tecklenburg 2015

Warsaw

santiago 2024

[junkyard-gifs]

Just curious, would you happen to know which performer has been in the most different productions of Cats? (Especially if we count Oasis as several different productions)

Not off the top of my head. Wouldn’t put it past someone like Mark John Richardson, Jack Rebaldi, or Guy-Paul de St Germain though.

[theimpossiblescheme]

Jack Rebaldi 🤝 Drew Sarich: Singing that high harmony on the final “Sei bereit, sternkind” in “Totale Finsternis” and making me ridiculously happy.

[0zzysaurus]

here, have an ms paint jackustrap

[isolationstreet]

Performers who have played both Graf von Krolock and Munkustrap

Steve Barton, Ivan Ozhogin, David Arnspeger, Jack Rebaldi, Robert D. Marx

[naturepointstheway]

Need a tier list of Munks (I know there's one for Mistos)

So I was just thinking about a Tier List ranking for Mistos that I've seen out there, and now I'm wondering if someone did one for the various Munks (and they better have Gruber's Munk in S-tier at least). By the way, I was looking at the list of Munk actors on the Cats wiki, and I did NOT know that Geoffrey Garratt had played Munkustrap as well (back in 1992, apparently. Well now I need to see what HIS Munk was like now. Hand over the bootleg, please.

What other Munks would you put in a tier list and where would you rank them? Other Munks I can think of:

S Tier (absolute creme de la creme, my fave takes on the "Courageous, Imposing, Energetic" words): Michael Gruber (as hinted before), Steve Barton, Jack Rebaldi (I think you spell it like that? He's Madrid 2004 Munk), Alexander Auler

A Tier (not my absolute faves, but still got the character in a way I still love): Andy Huntington-Jones (2016 Revival), Robbie Fairchild (yes I'm including 2019 Munk, aka the man who launched a thousand Munkoff fics.), Paul Hadobas (Zurich 1991/2)

B Tier (I like them well enough, but don't capture Munk the way I prefer, for example maybe imposing but not very energetic, and so on): Darryl Robinson (1989 Vienna), Matthew Pike (the cover Munk in the Hamburg 1999 bootleg) (He's just too...mellow, for me. I need some energy here!)

I honestly can't think of any Munk that I'd rank below B tier (all Munks are good Munks to me, from what I've seen so far, I guess). What are others' thoughts?

[prettynerdieworks]

mood

[callicopat]

Featuring John Patridge as the Rum Tum Tugger, Jack Rebaldi as Munkustrap, and Constanze Möricke as Cassandra (Berlin 2002).

[vanzonderen]

So I was looking at a video relating to the Dutch Tour 2006 and I noticed three things:

This cast does not entirely look like the cast I know

That Munkustrap kinda looks like Jack Rebaldi and not Roberto or Pierre

Bombalurina is singing Jemima's part in Memory!

I was so confused but I think I figured it out. I'm fairly sure it was (at least partially) the last German Tour cast (which is why I recognised Jack Rebaldi) with some members of the then upcoming Dutch Tour cast. The actress playing Bomba in the German Tour was Dutch so she might have been the only one able to sing the part at the time... Still, I love love love Bombalurina joining in in Memory!

[isaterriblebore]

Robert Foley as Tumblebrutus (Bill Bailey) from the London production where he played the character from 2001 until 2002.

With Jack Rebaldi as Munkustrap 

With Benjamin Tyrell as Mistoffelees and Chris Jarvis as Alonzo (I believe)