#guy-paul de st germain

[broccolidevourer]

Some mistoffelees actors without makeup. Who's your favorite?

Try to guess who's who!!

sorry some pics are so hard to find that they are blurry

I appreciate everyone's act and that's only a few of them, sorry if anyone was left out. I got a few pics from the fandom. Thank you whoever uploaded them.

[jellicle-song-and-jellicle-dance]

Can we talk about how Guy-Paul De St Germain’s username on YouTube is “frenchmisto”

I love him for that

[karinhart]

assorted mistos 🐈‍⬛

left to right: timothy scott, jacob brent, wayne sleep, ricky ubeda, liam mower, guy-paul de st germain, joseph poulton, pierpaolo scida ✨

[ID: A series of drawings, from the shoulders up, of eight different people who have played Mistoffelees in the musical Cats, in costume. The spaces between them are decorated with white sparkles against the black background. /end ID]

[kaijudyke]

made an alignment chart of what i consider the four key elements of a great misto performance... all of these performances have all of these traits, that's what makes them good imo, but i think different performers emphasize some of them more than others. this chart is limited to performers i've seen recordings of/seen live (liam mower)/feel i have sufficient information about from the album to at least vaguely judge their vibe (timothy scott) so if your fav is missing it's not bc i don't like them, it's bc i don't have enough data. please feel enormously free to reblog with additions or disagreements. i am not accepting feedback on my methodology though <3 i'm right

[jellicle-song-and-jellicle-dance]

This reminds me of Paris Tugger

human!tugger would have hair down to at least half his back and when he wants to be a cunt instead of fluffing up his collar he'd sweep his hair over his shoulders like a l'oreal commercial. Post tweet

[etchif]

HOLD ON HE HAS SPOTS

(Guy-Paul de St Germain, Paris 1990)

[just-before-dawn]

no thoughts, head empty, only this part of the paris 1990 mr. mistoffelees number

guy-paul de st germain as misto

gilles vajou as tugger

source

[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.

[cassandra-has-moonlit-eyes]

When I’m already posting og Paris and with all the Grizabella talk that is happening at the moment, the time has finally come for me to reveal one of my personal favourite Grizabella from all production I’ve seen live or on video so far: Fabienne Guyon! She plays Grizabella in the video which was kindly shared by Guy Paul De St Germain (Mistoffelees in this production) on youtube. He is also the reason I know her name because he really took the time to respond to most of the comments under the video.

Here is said video.

Grizabella’s first appearance starts around 00:27:25

Second appearance is around 01:03:40

Final appearance + Memory around 02:01:40

Next to Fabienne Guyon’s performance I’m absolutly in love with Gay Marshall’s recording for the french CD/Vinyl. I also know that there is a video somewhere where Gay Marshall performed the song during an French theatre award show but the copyright holder blocked/deleted it everywhere so sadly I can just hear her voice but honestly that alone made me cry.

I really love both versions, Fabienne’s and Gay’s very much. For a while I thought it was propably because of the translation but I hardly speak any French and I’m far away from  understanding the french lyrics without using a translator programme. So I think it’s mostly their performances that move me so much.

I have the feeling that Grizabella nowadays is played younger and stronger, not old and hurt/weak but injured maybe. I really do prefer earlier versions of the character. I love the Paris coat and wig, looks so much like matting and I also love the make up.

[gaylittlewizardcat]

I posted 281 times in 2022

That's 281 more posts than 2021!

236 posts created (84%)

45 posts reblogged (16%)

I tagged 277 of my posts in 2022

Only 1% of my posts had no tags

#cats the musical - 216 posts

#mistoffelees - 108 posts

#gay little ramblings - 83 posts

#incorrect cats - 63 posts

#rum tum tugger - 40 posts

#jellicle queues - 31 posts

#jellicle answers - 30 posts

#victoria the white cat - 29 posts

#monochromatic siblings - 26 posts

#munkustrap - 24 posts

Longest Tag: 132 characters

#focusing on how much i love the wigs instead of how i’m not a huge fan of the makeup or the quaxo design just makes me a bit happier

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

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#4

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129 notes - Posted August 20, 2022

#3

I jusgt,,, think they should hug

While not directly fanart of Song and Dance by @thunderwhenhepurrs and @katzenprinz I was inspired by s&d!Bustopher calling Misto “my boy” so I’d like to thank you anyway :D

135 notes - Posted May 27, 2022

#2

Remake of my first ever gif featuring Misto’s Full Body Eye Roll except instead of being really bad it’s not

139 notes - Posted August 20, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

I will never not think about this

Guy-Paul de St Germain

353 notes - Posted August 14, 2022

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[ratherchaseamouse]

Some favorite Mistoffeleeses from the camera roll that really fit the vibe

(almost entirely Timothy Scott with one Valentin Baraian and one Guy-Paul de St. Germain)

heather propaganda

dies in like the first half hour but haunts the rest of the plot <3 i heart evil women

misto propaganda

Mister Mistoffelees is the epitome of what a tumblrman stands for: he’s magic, a trickster, snazzy costume, homoerotic tendencies, goth, somewhat unhinged, plus he has built-in cat ears that you don’t need to edit on!

[sevenkittensinatrenchcoat]

Misto Categories 2: Meta History

So, we most likely started with Munk’s Assistant Misto. OLC had Misto sing Gumbie Cat, along with a lot of other exposition that was later given to Munkustrap. Munk and Misto appeared to pass the leadership role back and forth.

Problem: Misto is such a prominent figure in the tribe that no one should be surprised by his powers. He uses them to be the center of attention all the time.

Munk’s Assistant evolves into Showman Misto. When OBC Misto carries a musical number, it’s either him showing off or him putting on a show. Munkustrap gets the important exposition. Misto isn’t a high-ranking member of the group and is generally strange, so some of the tribe might only know him as a sort of stage persona.

Problem: Okay, his magical skill is still a bit too obvious. After bringing those puppets to life, the idea that he could teleport Old Deut back to the tribe isn’t that much of a stretch. Also, when Misto describes himself as “vague and aloof” while showing off with everything he’s got, it gets a bit too ridiculous.

Showman Misto evolves into Vague and Aloof Misto. This starts in Vienna. They take a character that had been doing a lot of singing and make him completely mute. They use a similar character design to what was used on Broadway, giving him a strange appearance. When he’s completely silent and cryptid-looking, he comes across as genuinely mysterious.

Now, for the next few years, this is what we’ve got. London Misto is Munk’s Assistant, Broadway Misto is Showman, and Vienna Misto is Vague and Aloof. Even as the casts of different productions begin to change, the characterization has been decided on. The prominence of the Broadway show means that Showman Misto is quite popular internationally. US Tours sometimes used it and Japan fully embraced it. On the continent of Europe, outside of the UK, productions based on Vienna begin to pop up, and they start out with Vague and Aloof Misto. But then, something weird happens.

I could go on a long tangent about the Coming of Age Arcs of Cats, but I’ll keep it to brief notes here:

Victoria was the original Coming of Age cat, going through puberty. She has a solo dance where she begins to explore her own body. Later, at the Jellicle Ball, she has a sort of sexual experience with a tom around her age. Which tom it is literally does not matter because this scene is about her. The reason why London eventually went with Admetus is because the Admetus actor also played Macavity, and therefore had to be ripped and able to lift equally-ripped Munkustrap, so lifting little Victoria would be easy for him.

When the show moved to Broadway, they decided that the boy in the dance should have an arc to parallel the girl, because a physical coming of age arc focused entirely on a girl happened so rarely that no one knew how to react. They took the character of Bill Bailey, one of the Two Tom Kittens of the show, and rewrote him as Tumblebrutus, a boy with an arc about wanting to appear tough to impress his friends and the adults. Because he isn’t played by the same actor who plays Macavity, he can participate in the Macavity fight, coming of age that way.

The Vienna production did the same thing the Broadway Production did, as did most productions made between 1982 and 2002.

But, in 1989, the Paris production shifted the coming of age arc from Tumblebrutus to Mistoffelees. Misto had his own song. He was already a prominent character. This takes us even further away from the point that, in the mating dance, the tom doesn’t actually matter. But, the Macavity Fight came right before Misto’s number, so they couldn’t just give him the Tumblebrutus arc. Instead, his number becomes the moment when he comes of age.

So, this change is made, but Misto is still somewhat Vienna based and mute. He’s now being played a bit younger and less secure to match the coming of age arc. He might actually come across as shy, or at least a bit awkward, if you combine this immaturity with the fact that he never speaks. When you age down Vague and Aloof Misto, you get Shy Misto.

Technically, Shy Misto is a form of Character Arc Misto, because he has a character arc, but the Mistos I consider Shy feel different from the ones I’ve called Character Arc. Shy Misto is either Vague and Aloof aged down or Character Arc but mute.

Now, Shy Misto moves from Paris to Zurich and Amsterdam. More Vienna-based productions. Actors who played Misto in these productions went on to play the same role in non-Vienna-based productions. This included Broadway. This led to Shy Misto and Showman Misto being combined. Misto sings, though not as much as before, and he has that flashy Showman energy, but he still has Shy Misto’s character arc and younger age. This creates Character Arc Misto.

The 1998 VHS uses Character Arc Misto and it’s the most accessible version. A generation of future Mistos will base their own characterizations on this one.

Then something happened with the Broadway Revival and Misto lost his arc. The actors playing Misto and Tugger played up their dynamic to compensate, but with only their dynamic making Misto stand out, this is how we get Tugger’s BF Misto.

So, people built off of each other’s ideas to create new characters, providing several options on how to portray Mistoffelees. The changes mainly occurred between 1981 and 1996. 

Now, to give credit where credit is due, here’s who I believe to be the first actors to perform each Misto type:

Munk’s Assistant: Wayne Sleep, 1981

Showman: Timothy Scott, 1982

Vague and Aloof: Valentin Baraian, 1983

Shy: Tibor Kovats, 1989 (He was the first Paris Misto and the first Zurich Misto. The actors to take the role after him in both productions were Shy Mistos, so it probably began with him. The oldest known recording of a show with Shy Misto was from Paris in 1990, when the role was played by Guy-Paul de St. Germain)

Character Arc: Jacob Brent, 1996 (This actually could’ve been Lindsay Chambers shifting from a Zurich Shy Misto to something that matched what was already being done on Broadway, but I’m not sure of that, having only seen Chambers in a Zurich bootleg. Character Arc Misto was definitely inspired by him though.)

Tugger’s BF Misto: Ricky Ubeda, 2016

[jellicle-song-and-jellicle-dance]

My favorite genre of Cats actors are actors who own dogs. Like why are you sitting here posed up with a dog, was this not you a couple years ago????

[isaterriblebore]

Stéphane Drouard covering Tumblebrutus and Guy-Paul de St Germain as Mistoffelees from the Paris production in 1990.

[isolationstreet]

Make Me Choose Musical Edition: 2/???

Rum Tum Tugger or Mr. Mistoffelees

[junkyard-gifs]

Guy-Paul de St Germain as Mistoffelees, Paris 1990.