#alonzoxgrizabella

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Alonzo is poised and elegant and strong and not at all scared of... nope, nope, strange lady is too much, Alonzo out.

Never mind, the other eyepatch boys know what to do!

George Maniadis as Alonzo, Riccardo Sinisi as Carbuckety, Nathan Luke as Bill Bailey, Alexander Auler as Munkustrap, and Ana Milva Gomes as Grizabella. Vienna revival, 24 June 2022. Filmed by @falasta and @cryptidvoidwritings, giffed with permission.

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Carrie Willis as her 'Babygriz' swing and Sebastian Goffin as Alonzo, on the closing night of the 2022 International tour (26 February 2023).

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4 June 2022 on the US tour...

Grizabella debut for Lauren Louis! The first we heard of it was, in fact, Kieran Macdonald mentioning it in his insta live while he was doing his (Misto) makeup.

This is the evening show: in the matinee he'd been on for Tumblebrutus (as he has been by default since Sean McManus left—note there's no 'out' listed for Tumblebrutus, just Connor's 'in'), and Lauren had presumably been Demeter. But a curious combination of swing-offs—or perhaps Tayler Harris' deliberate design—led to Lauren Louis having her Griz debut!

Megan had her Jelly debut just a couple of days ago, so logically she could have kept playing Jelly while Carolyn went on for Griz, since she's higher up the 'Griz covers' list than Lauren is. But Lauren implied that, with so few weeks to go, Tayler deliberately swung off to give her a chance to be the first Asian-American Broadway Grizabella...!

also, my goodness, these exchanges with Hyla and Brianna—the other two Asian-American girls in the cast, who were fortunately both on tonight for their roles of Victoria and Sillabub...! NGL I teared up. (In both cases, the larger text at the bottom is Lauren responding to them. Also, 'boop' is how Hyla refers to the moment of Victoria touching Grizabella's hand.)

And meanwhile, since I haven't hit the post image limit, have some more cuteness! With Aiden Pressel as Plato, Lexy Bittner as Cassandra, Max Craven as Mungojerrie, and Vinny Andaloro as Alonzo.

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Alonzo is a gentleman.

George Maniadis and Ana Milva Gomes; Vienna revival, 29 September 2019 (X).

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Grizabella getting cuddly with the eyepatch boys!

Tayler Harris as Grizabella and Vinny Andaloro as Alonzo. Sean McManus is Tumblebrutus in the first photo, and Kieran MacDonald in the second.

2021 US tour (X).

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Altugger - plus a young Griz!

... and a blep.

Dominik Hees as Tugger, Ana Milva Gomes as Grizabella, and Riccardo Sinisi as Alonzo, Vienna revival.

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Griz and Alz: the masterpost

For Jo Ampil and Robin Lake’s ‘Griz and Alz’ backstage series, from when they were playing Grizabella and Alonzo on the 2018 international tour.

YouTube playlist now available here, and tumblr posts are below the cut.

EDIT (16 Jan 2021): Joanna Ampil now has her own youtube channel, and has uploaded these there - with some extra editing compared to the versions on insta / in these posts! Head over there and give her a follow.

Episode 1: The One With Macavity. (Gifset)

Episode 2: The One With Make-up Tips. (Gifset)

Episode 3: The One With The Diva. (Gifset)

Episode 4: The One With The Lemsip.

Episode 5: The One With The Weight Loss.

Episode 6: The One With The Opera Cat. (Gifset)

Episode 7: The One Where Cassandra Gets Impatient.

Episode 8: The One With The Dread Cucumber. (Gifset)

Episode 9: The One With The Disappearing Banana.

Episode 10: The One Where Robin Is Replaced. (Gifset)

Episode 11: The One With The Other Diva.

Episode 12: The One Where The Twins Are Not In Sync.

Episode 13: The One With The Litter Tray.

Episode 14: The One With All The Fans.

Episode 15: The One Where Sharing Is Caring.

Episode 16: The Last One. Originally posted on their instagrams - links provided in the video descriptions on youtube.

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Alonzo making his way through the ladies - and one gentleman! (Mirko Battuello, Hamburg 1997ish.)

1: Louise Dominy as Rumpelteazer

2: Patte de Pova as Demeter

3: ?Shahara Ray as Jennyanydots (and a shocked Patte de Pova’s Demeter)

4. Hey look, a Tugger! No idea who though, alas.

5. Grizabella! Bronwyn Mulcahy.

6. Bronwyn Mulcahy’s Grizabella again, but this time Mirko is covering Plato. If you think about it, Plato/Babygriz is more or less equivalent to Macavity/Grizabella...

7. Demeter and Plato think order has been restored. Rumpelteazer knows better...! (Patte and Louise again—not sure about the Plato.)

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There’s no stopping this cat once he’s in flirt mode. (And Carbuckety looks set to copy him.)

Aaron Lynch covering Alonzo, Xavier Pellin as Mistoffelees, Brad Little as Deuteronomy, Jo Ampil as Grizabella, and Jal Joshua as Carbuckety. 2020 Asia tour, 20 March 2021.

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Munkustrap is being replaced. :(

‘Griz and Alz’: Robin Lake as Munkustrap, Nathan Zach Johnson as Alonzo, and Jo Ampil as Grizabella, 2018 International tour.

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‘Griz and Alz’ episode 9: The One With The Disappearing Banana.

Robin Lake and Joanna Ampil, 2018 International Tour; with Alex Harrison as Mistoffelees.

(‘Griz and Alz’ masterpost.)

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‘Griz and Alz’ episode 14: The One With All The Fans.

Robin Lake and Joanna Ampil, 2018 International Tour; with Nathan Zach Johnson as Tugger being a little shit.

(‘Griz and Alz’ masterpost.)

Transcript below the cut.

Robin: Jo, I really feel like we’ve been neglecting our fans lately.

Jo: I feel realy guilty. We haven’t produced anything for a long time.

Robin: Do you think we’ve lost them?

Nathan: Guys, you’ve got fans waiting for you in your room.

Robin: Fans?

Jo: For us?

Robin: Our fans? ... I told you! We didn’t even need to worry. I mean, the fact that they actually travel all the way here to see us...!

Jo: Oh my god!

Robin: I mean that’s really a testament to the good work that we’re doing!

Jo: Okay, how do we look -

Robin: Right, play cool, play cool... Sorry to keep you waiting guys-!

Jo: Hi-!

@cat-b-amimation TUGGER IS A BRAT

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‘Griz and Alz’ episode 11: The One With The Other Diva.

Robin Lake and Joanna Ampil, 2018 International Tour. With Elizabeth Futter as Jellylorum and Mathieu Serradell (musical director) on piano. Nico Kirschstein Smith, their resident physio, is also tagged in the video, and I assume he’s the one massaging her leg. I’m not sure who’s fanning her and feeding her grapes though!

(‘Griz and Alz’ masterpost.)

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Robin Lake’s Alonzo and Joanna Ampil’s Grizabella, and a dread cucumber. (2016 UK/International tour, 2018)

(Masterpost.)

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‘Griz and Alz’ episode 8: The One With The Dread Cucumber. (Giffed here.)

Robin Lake and Joanna Ampil, 2018 International Tour. With Mathieu Serradell (musical director) as the Bringer of the Dread Cucumber.

(‘Griz and Alz’ masterpost.)

(also pouncival’s foot - Bruce Aguilar-Rohan, who is, incidentally, filming for most of these.)

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Curtain call in Vienna, c. 5 January 2020.

Carbuckety and Mistoffelees being wiggling buddies, a little Platoria moment, Alonzo being elegant, Tugger being inelegant.

And finally, some nice Bombalurina/Tantomile - hold on. Alonzo - and Grizabella?? You saw that too, right, Tugger?

(Johnny Randall as Carbuckety, Stephen Martin Allan as Mistoffelees, Nicholas Li as Admetus, George Maniadis as Alonzo, Ana Milva Gomes as Grizabella. I can’t swear to the others but that does look like Dominik Hees as Tugger; and unless there are covers on, it should be Petra Ilse Dam as Tantomile,  Hannah Kenna Thomas as Victoria, and Birgit Arquin as Bombalurina.)