#cats mexico tour 2018

[hysterical-cats]

mexico's jemima design goes absolutely CRAZY btw

[gotham-native]

CALYPSO

[the-cat-at-the-theatre-door]

I’m fascinated by the parallel of these approaches, and that Asparagus and Demeter are the only two to approach in this way. 

[storyweaverofgondor]

Mexico Bombalurina

One of my favorite non-rep Bombas! I used a combination of the 2013 and 2018 tours as reference. I’m really proud of how she turned out!

@uppastthejelliclemoon

[ultimate-nonreplica-contest]

The bracket for Round 1 is Determined!

(I know some are cut off, sorry)

[pixiedustjellicle]

I have such a difficult time connecting with the Cats community now. Part of me feels like maybe I'm too old for the current fandom(I don't feel old, but I'm certainly not 19 anymore). Or that perhaps it's because I don't much care about ships. Sometimes I worry that I intimidate people, and I'd hate that. Let me introduce myself and how Cats has shaped my life, and maybe I can find my people?

I first saw Cats at a tiny local theatre when I was eight. I fell in love with it, and even though I didn't have the movie yet, I spent months afterwards with just the poem book and highlights album. Eventually I got the 98 VHS too- and then another local theatre put it on when I was ten! I got to see it twice there. And afterwards, I made up my own attempt at a costume, turned our spare room into my attempt at the set, and put some chairs in there to put on the highlights show for some friends of my mother. The CD was worn out, I went on with the show, and they even gave me a card and a new CD afterwards- the London 2 disc set! Looking back, I think how embarrassing it probably was, but I was so happy and proud of myself in the moment. Two more years later, US Tour 5 came through Nashville, and I got to go and stagedoor for the first time. I wore a tail I made and one of the actresses told me I had a perfect Bombalurina tail twirl. For all those years, I worked Cats into school projects, I drew nothing else. My mom put up with it for so long, and I still thank her to this day.

And then I went into middle school. New school, new students, and I started getting bullied for it. I found other musicals I didn't get bullied for- Phantom, Wicked, and Sweeney- to latch onto, and I kinda put Cats in the back of my head. I still loved it, but my hyperfixation had waned thanks to mean kids, and other than occasionally watching the 1998 movie, I didn't think much of it for years.

But the US Tour 6 announced a date in Nashville. I hadn't seen the show in eight years, and I wasn't about to miss it. I had already started taking an interest in cosplay, but I'd never made a costume like that. I remembered admiring the CCDB as a kid though, and I told myself I was totally capable of making my own, just to go see the show in costume. And I did.

And the cast were SO sweet, and I started finding Cats fans on Instagram. I thought I could do better on the costume, so when the show stopped in Chattanooga a couple months later... I did it again.

The pandemic hit and I lost my job. Immediately I started getting work making Cats cosplays for others, and I haven't stopped since. And when the show resumed, I made an overnight trip to Memphis to dress up again!

And then, I saved until I could finally go see the Royal Caribbean production (front row all three performances), and got to cosplay on the cruise and get a picture on stage with the cast! This was absolutely everything to me, especially seeing the original choreography as opposed to the revival. I definitely cried. (I'm in the middle bottom row!)

I've gotten to make some costume pieces for three regional productions of Cats, in the Dominican Republic, Atlanta Georgia, and most recently Georgetown Texas. I've won some local cosplay contest with my costumes, too! And I'm lucky enough to own a few original pieces- though I've had to part with some too.

My love for this show has spanned just over 17 years now. I adore the story, the costumes, the choreography, the sets, and the characters. It's part of how I learned I am autistic. It's given me confidence I didn't know I could find. And every time I get to see it live, I feel like I'm where I belong. The fandom has felt quiet. And I'm not sure if that's just because I don't know where I fit in? So here's hoping I can find my tribe.

Favorite productions: Original Broadway, Moscow, and Mexico 2013/2018

Favorite Cats: Jemima/Sillabub, Bombalurina, Demeter, Munkustrap, Tumblebrutus, Jellylorum

Favorite songs: Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats, The Song of the Jellicles and the Jellicle Ball, Macavity

Favorite cats to cosplay: Etcetera and Victoria

[real-reulbbr-band]

do you have any favorite victoria actor(s) ? and your favorite victoria designs !!

Oooo very good question, thank you! This post ended up being longer then intended so I'll make a separate one for just my favorite actresses. For now we focus on designs.

Miao Sijia - CATS China Tour, 2012.

Jabnia Sarai - CATS Mexico Tour, 2018.

Natalia Maria Wojciechowska - CATS Warsaw, 2004.

Mineko Baba - CATS Shiki Theatre company, 2014.

Ellis Van Evert - CATS Paris, 1990.

Yeira Geano - CATS Cibao Grand Theatre, 2021.

Annette Wimmer - CATS Zurich, 1992.

[soul-eclectic]

2, 3, 6, 8 for the asks !! (or 13 >:] )

2. mistoffelees:) !!! his song isnt my most favoritest but his personality has captured me. i think i portray him differently than other ppl though. i think he can be a little weird and offputting as a treat

3. theres several actors with this but what always rotates in my mind is this genre of munkustrap that died off in the 80s & 90s. i miss him. he looks young, but carries the vibes of an older cat which absolutely Speaks to me as true !!!!

(Paul Darnell & Peter Bishop)

6. One of my favorite platonic headcanons would be that Deuteronomy, Skimbleshanks, Bustopher and Gus are a big friend group. Theyre like "the boys" but respectable men

8. Id say anyone from the Mexico 2013 or 2018 tour !!!! look at them!!!!!!! the makeup looks soo crisp and clean, very gorgeous !!!!

13. okay! dm me /j

[foxes-that-run]

2019 Haylor Timeline

Timeline Tag, Back to 2018

1 January - Taylors New Years Eve costume party she dresses as Ariel

3 January - MH asks to produce Harry's next album... via twitter.... and says Harry has blocked him.

6 January - Taylor in LA at Golden Globes afterparty

9 January - Harry still in Japan

Miss Americana filmed between Rep tour and Lover, released in 2020.

16 January - Kiko Mizuhara says she has never met Harry, then

2 February - Kiko at Harry's birthday party they may or may not have dated.

18 January - Taylor seen at recording studio in NYC (suggested Me!, but I think that's too late, it was released as a single in April)

26 January - Harry still in Japan

1 February - Harry's 25th Birthday “I had a very Murakami birthday because I ended up staying in Tokyo on my own. I had grilled fish and miso soup for breakfast, then I went to this cafe. I sat and drank tea and read for five hours.” (Harry Styles on his 25th birthday, Rolling Stone 2019)

10 February - Joe and Taylor go to Harry's local, the Spaniards Inn Hampstead Heath ...... Harry was in LA on the 12th. Seen walking in Paris in March and not again for 7 months.

12 February - Joe and Taylor attend the BAFTAS Taylor is photographed having dinner with Liam Payne

5 March - Taylor things before 30 article, includes that Andrea is again in treatment

14 March - Harry arriving at gym in London

28 March - Harry JFK airport, then hotel in NY

29 March - Harry and Xander dinner Ny

5 April - Harry in LOndon

23 April - Taylor plays Time 100 show setlist is Style, Delicate, Love Story, NYD and Shake it off

26 April Me! Video released, just before April 29 anniversary... Joe not seen with Taylor till October.

2 May - Taylor Zane Lowe Me! Interview

3 May - Harry in LA

5 May - Harry Anna Wintour's apartment, pre-met Gala dinner

7 May - Harry hosts his only met gala attendance, Taylor’s doesn’t go anymore. Adore you and Lights up written in May. Harry and Kendall have after party and both leave at 6am and both stayed at the Bowery hotel. Jeff and Xander also there.

May - 6 July Joe filming A Christmas Carol in Hampstead Heath and stays in London after. Taylor in US, billboard awards, Lover media

15 May Harry was in the studio, Harry writes Adore You, Lights up, Treat People with Kindness, starts Boyfriends.

18 May - Harry driving a bright yellow vintage ferrari in Malibu, you can practically hear golden in that photo.

20 May (Haylor anniversary #1), still in studio, Harry wears a white horses shirt and fearless gold shorts on the beach in Malibu. While Horse is a Fearless song he also references in the Daylight video. Fine Line then complete

21 May - Gucci Swan Campaign released

24 May - Taylor in Paris with Joe, she recreates scenes from Begin Again which are later in the TV version of Taylor Swift Live in the City of Lover, except the concert was filmed months later when Joe was not there.

3, 6 June - Harry in London,

9 June - Blind that Taylor & Joe double date was PR setup

30 June Big Machine Records sold with Taylor’s masters.

2-6 July - Taylor in Virgin Isles with her mum, Ashley and the Haim sisters, Joe still filming UK.

10 July Taylor Performs at Amazon Prime event in NYC, points at a figure in Delicate thought to be Joe.

15-17 June - Harry visits Xander in Philly, airport photos

18 July - Harry sells LA house at a loss after 2 years on market

20 July - Taylor in NYC

29 July - Harry in NYC for Rolling Stone shoot in Hawaiian shirt (the eternal sunshine of Harry styles story with Rob Sheffield)

1 August - Gucci fragrance campaign where Harry plays with a ring and leans his head on a blonde lady with a cat masks shoulder. This mask is vintage, there is a Tiktok of the guy who owns it. Taylor wore a similar mask in the LAWYMMD video and was filming cats. We don't know who's in the mask, Harris Reed is on the set and I wonder if it is her.

4 August - Harry shot Lights Up music video in Mexico

6 August - Harry in philli

19 August - stories that KK falling out was she threw a party in Taylor’s NY house

23 August - Lover released. Lover Video released with quite clear Haylor references. Taylor says relationship not up for discussion. in NYC Taylor poses next to a photo of One Direction backstage at a signing in Brooklyn New York.

29 August - Taylor films BBC Live Lounge in NY with emotional performance of London Boy, Lover, The Archer, I can’t stop loving you (Phil Collin’s), Holy Ground and YNTCD. Holy Ground and ICSlY are particularly emotional and Taylor talks about loving someone even if they don’t love you back and that she chose Holy Ground because it refers to NY.

2 September - Harry in London, then disappears for 10 days. Gucci Fragrance Campaign where Harry wore the Haylor Ring.

7 September - both at Ed Sheeran's wedding in a big top. Joe maybe there - Niall followed Joe 8 Sept; Joe back 21 Sept

9 September - Taylor records City of Lover in Paris. Live setlist #7 was DBAC and #13 was Style, also played Love Story, Delicate, ATW, Red, Style and Shake it Off. Joe in Toronto.

11 September - Blind that Joe wasn't able to talk about Taylor, about stilted showing at Favorite premiere

12 September - Harry seen in London and MIA till LAX on 17th

14 September - Joe and Taylor Rhode Island and fly to London

17 September - Harry private club Hollywood

24 September - Harry seen with Xander in LA

26 September - Harry Miami with Xander

28 September - Harry leaves Miami with Gucci Mickey Mouse suitcase.

29 September - Harry in London gallery with Georgia Ritz and her BF (Xander’s sister)

4 October - Harry seen with fans in London. Matty Healy says he wants to produce Taylors record (said about Harry earlier the year) and went on to say 'that taylor swift song about supporting gay people, when it came out we already knew that."

5 October Joe hold hands at Taylors SNL appearance, Elle comments 'their version of PDA at least' which is holding hands. Do you know who you are starts. Taylor performs Lover at SNL, the arrangement is acoustic and slow, she's wearing green, with a green piano and green floor, walls and nails! The music sheets look like paper planes. False God also.

11 October - lights up released

14 October - Harry at John Mayer concert at O2 London, John posts backstage photo.

21 October - A Fashion designer said they met Harry at the Bowery Hotel

27 October - Harry goes on stage at Kasey Musgraves last concert, wearing an all black version of the Fine Line Outfit.

28 October - Taylor's tiny desk concert, her CD is still in the background for Harry's in March.

5 November - Harry announced Fine Line

12, 17 November - Harry in New York

13 November - Joe and Taylor Thai restaurant Hampstead

16 November - Watermelon Sugar released as promotional single. Harry with Xander NY

20 November - Harry filmed the cross walk concert

22 November - sponsored tweets for Eroda Tourism started ❤️ Scooter wrote open letter to Taylor wanting a resolution saying his family was being threatened

23 November Harry's Zane Lowe interview (SNL 16 Nov)

1 December - Taylor on cover of British Vogue

3 December - Harry announced Adore you confirming Eroda is related.

7 December - Harry performs at Capitals Jingle Bell Ball, London

8 December - Taylor performs at Capitals Jingle Bell Ball, London

11 December - Kendall and Harry on Spill your guts

13 December - Fine Line released, Taylor’s birthday, Harry performed it in LA that night Harry Styles ‘Fine Line’ Concert at Forum in L.A. – Rolling Stone. Photos of Harry in Japan released. Taylor also performed that night but at MSG NY, making of photos. Rumour Xander there. Taylor performs in NY for Jingle Bell Ball and tells Fletcher "She had mentioned to me how much she loved the lyrics [to Undrunk]. I nearly fainted and passed away at that moment." Undrunk is about wanting to be over an ex.

15 December - Taylor’s 30th birthday party in NY with all the famous people, tiny pupils and a cat face cake. Media says Joe there, but:

16 December - Joe is in London, not at Taylor's birthday

18 December - Cats premiere, Taylor has a swollen lip. Joe attends holds hands as they leave. Flakes answering about holiday plans. Joe does Christmas Carol interview where he says he jumps in Hampstead Heath Pond every year. What convenient cross marketing, the film is shot in Hampstead, Paper Rings refers to icy outdoor pools. I wonder if he ran into Harry there. Harry at BBC Live Lounge recorded Juice cover

31 December - Joe, Taylor and friends at Maldives for New Years, Harry first wore the But Daddy I love him shirt on New Years Eve video of him dancing with no shoes and tipped a bartender $2020 in Anguilla in the Caribbean

Continue in 2020

[uppastthejelliclemoon]

Jumping off of the last ask, what types of non-rep costumes are your favorite? Do you like a more human-esqe look like Tecklenburg or Opera Populaire went for? Or a more cat-like look like the Mexico tours or il sistana? (Personally i don't like one over the other generally. Tho i have found i tend to like the bright colored or themed ones best)

that's the same with me!!! there's something i love about each of the non-reps that it's hard to put one above the other!

the sort of sepia-tonied costumes for il sistina are SO aesthetically pleasing, and i love the subtle changes they made to the makeup and costumes!

mexico 2018's colors are some of my absolute FAVORITES (pink jemima my beloved!!!!) and gothenburg/stockholm with all the colors funky designs is SO much fun, plus the setting is one of my favorites ever!

i think opera populaire and kilworth both do a fantastic job at reimagining the show in a different setting and time period (though if i was to pick one over the other, kilworth will always have my absolute favorite character designs!)

so, i think i prefer SLIGHTLY the more catlike looks, because, for me, a more human-ish look has to be done SUPER well in a non-rep. like, luisenburg does such a phenomenal job with making them more human-ish than cat while still sticking perfectly with the essence of each of the characters.

i will say... i think i'm in the cats fandom minority when i say i'm not a fan of tecklenburg 😭😭😭

[murdleandmarot]

3,8,9 and 13 for Jemima the outfit questions mean like costume design

HI HELLO!!!! I love talking about Jemima so so much, she’s my favorite girlie in the entire world :D, thank you for sending this in!!!!

3. A song that reminds you of them:

Oooo, associating songs with cats characters is so fun, there’s so many different ways to interpret things. I’m going to say Army Dreamers by Kate Bush.

It very much fits her vibe, both in a prophecy-oracle sentiment, and the tone of voice. The song also has a mystical-morbid quality that seems integral to Jemima’s character.

8. Your favorite outfit of them:

I love it when she gets to be colorful!!! Pink and red are my favorites, and combinations of the two are my favorite.

I’m a big of her costume in the Sylvani, Antwerp production from 1996, (VEERLE CASTELEYN, ILY <3333), mostly because it’s a slightly more colorful version of the 1998 costume. I also really like Wendy Braga’s costume in Mexico’s 2018 tour. (The same goes for Sillibub, they both look so gorgeous in that production).

9. Your least favorite outfit of them:

I’m not a huge fun of the brown wig that she was given in the US productions in 2010s(?). It just didn’t really fit the costume, and it’s not as whimsical as previous wigs, with all the stripes and red colors.

There’s not a specific costume I dislike, as she doesn’t have too much variation. That being said, as much as I like her Tecklenburg costume, it’s not one of my favorites. I wish she’d had this costume instead

(taken from the end of Growltiger)

It feels so much more Jemima-esq, color-wise (and also GORGEOUSSSSS ID FOLLOW HER INTO THE UNDERWORLD ❤️❤️❤️💔💔💔).

13. Favorite friendship they have?:

I really like Jemima and Victoria, platonic or otherwise, but my ABSOLUTE favorite is her relationship with Tantimile and Coricopat. It’s SO special to me <3

[lozeyart]

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📌 What was Cats 2019’s biggest mistake, in your opinion? (OTHER than 'bad cgi’) If you don’t think it made any notable mistakes, what’s your favorite thing about it?

I guess I could say how the music itself was absolutely butchered. Because Tom Hooper had them sing live (if I remember correctly), and sing how they wanted, and then the orchestra played later, going off of how the actors sang, and it just didn't match up AT ALL. I'd also say the absolute DESTRUCTION of Bustopher Jones's and Jennyanydots's characters. I HATE what that movie did to them. I could go on ALL fuckin' day about how their numbers were ruined and everything. If I had ONE positive about the movie, it was Skimbleshanks's number and thats it.

🧵 What’s your favorite production and why?

Based off of clips/bootlegs I've seen, I'd say the Vienna Revival production. It was one of the first productions to make me fall absolutely head first in LOVE with Cats. And I just absolutely love the way the songs sound in German. I bought their CD, and I still listen to it a lot! And I love most of the makeup designs from that production too, give or take a couple of them.

Going based off of design alone, if you know me you'll know what I'll say, but Mexico tour 2018/2019. Absolutely the best. In love with most all of those looks.

❤️ What’s your favorite romantical ship?

Taking out the obvious one (Tuggoffelees) and I'm going straight for Pouncoffelees! I ADORE!! THAT SHIP!!! SOMUCH!!!

Also a fan of Tugger/Bomba and Munk/Alonzo/Demeter (or just Munk/Demeter or Munk/Alonzo)

[gotham-native]

cosplays i want to do but most likely won't

(for multiple financial and personal reasons)

(this list will be changed a LOT)

yes these are all cats themed

Amphitrite - oc

Babygriz - us tour 5 and 2022 custom mix

Circe - oc

Demeter - 1998 movie

Demeter - custom design

Demeter - Mexico Tour 2018

Demeter - Original Broadway design

Electra - Broadway revival

Electra - Kilworth House

Electra - UK Tour 2016

Etcetera - 1998 movie

Jemima - 1998 movie

Jemima - Kilworth House

Jemima - Nagoya 1999

Misto - custom non replica fem design (slight joke)

Rumpleteazer - Hamburg 1992

Rumpleteazer - Original Broadway puppet

Rumpleteazer - Original London design

Rumpleteazer - us tour 5

Sillabub - Hamburg 1992

Sillabub - Original Broadway design

Sillabub - Mexico Tour 2018

Sillabub - The Georgetown place theatre design by @pixiedustjellicle (seriously go look at her, such a pretty Silla design)

Sillabub - Tokyo 2018

Tabbygirl - London 1988

Tantomile - 1998 movie

Tugger - custom non replica fem design (slight joke)

Victoria - custom design

[the-cat-at-the-theatre-door]

Today I officially confirmed that Alonzo remained in the position of the post Macavity nuzzle with Demeter in the 2018/2019 Mexico Tour in spite of the other changes leaning it moreso towards following the Revival, and for this I’d like to thank the Academy. 

[junkyard-gifs]

How do you define a non-replica?

So, a replica is a production that's licensed by RUG (= Really Useful Group = ALW's company) to perform CATS with full official regalia: that is, they are allowed to use Gillian Lynne's choreo and Napier's designs and so on, but they are also obliged to follow the official rules for whatever a current official production is meant to do.

However. 'Current' here means 'current at the time the licence was issued'.

Shiki (Japan) is replica in that it's fully licensed from RUG. But since they started in 1983 and have followed their own design path since then (with occasional external influences from more Western productions), they are actually more different from more modern replica productions than some modern non-replicas.

Similarly (though more recently), the Oasis production got its licence just before the UK and US revivals, and that licence is apparently still current, so it preserves some pre-revival performance traditions (and is, so far, immune to the new rules about makeup that came in with the new international and asia tours).

Other replica productions of the 80s and 90s (like OG Vienna, Amsterdam/Paris, Zurich/Euro, Hamburg) also developed their own traditions - and the Australasian traditions (starting in the late 1990s) persisted until the 2014 asia tour.

And that's a pertinent example: the australasian productions were not a continual production, so they had to renew their license for each 'season' (2014, 2015, 2017, 2020, 2022, etc). So they reflect the vagaries of ALW's revival trends, even while their production company (and often a lot of their cast) stay the same.

A non-replica, otoh, may be influenced by the traditional/replica productions, but they might get into trouble if their designs and choreo are too recognisable. For example, the 2013 and 2018 mexico revivals were a) based on the original Latin American productions in the 1990s - some of the cast and production team returned to lead the designs - and b) in the case of 2018, they were adapted to include elements of hte Broadway revival.

The end result was something that's much more recongisable as an extra-saturated version of Gillian/Napier's production, but. Though I don't know the terms of their contract. I know that the fact that they had that much of the original production gave them less freedom in terms of their contract, and that the 2018 production was obliged to close down in preparation for the release of teh 2019 film.

I would say that's symptomatic of ALW/RUG's increasing pedantic control over the appearance of The Brand of CATS and resistance to having any alternative versiosn around, but. That attitude isn't really new. According to some conversations I've had with old CATS alumni, 'omg ur doing ur own thing??? STOP THAT RIGHT NOW!!!' was basically the reason that the Hamburg production (1986–2001) was closed down.

and RUG's insistence on THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE PRODUCTION comes in waves: most of the original productions and their various traditions were shut down in the late 90s and early 00s, and then, after regional US productions started to burgeon in the late 00s and on until the revivals, they cracked down on non-replicas again in the wake of the European and Broadway revivals.

tl;dr the definition of non-replica is about licensing and degree of freedom/control, with originality as a secondary consideration.

[skimblyshanks]

Coricopat + Sillabub

Mexico Tour 2018 (1-3)

Mexico 2013 (4)