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Hey, remember when Kim Faure (Broadway revival Demeter) played Bombalurina?

No? Here you go: regional production in Wichita in 2007.

With Lisa Rohinsky as Demeter.

With Taurean Everett as Plato.

With Melinda Wakefield Alberty as Jellylorum (and, behind them, Aaron Umsted's yellow Carbuckety and Billy Johnstone's orange Skimbleshanks, who stay in the car boot and bounce excitedly for the duration of this number).

(Wichita masterpost)

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Lisa Rohinsky as Demeter, Kim Faure as Bombalurina, and Melinda Wakefield Alberty as Jellylorum (Wichita 2007)

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Wichita 2007: Etcetera (Stephanie Martignetti, above) and Jellylorum (Melinda Wakefield Alberty, below).

A couple of cats easy to mistake for each other, both being pale and yellow and having a white blaze and muzzle. However, Etcetera's makeup is more defined, with more black detailing, and her unitard has a white base, while Jelly's has a yellow one. Etcetera's legwarmers are also darker than her unitard, while Jelly's are the same colour with some lighter markings.

Jelly is on the far right, getting something from the set to make a train.

Etcetera is second from the left.

Wichita masterpost here.

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Lisa Rohinsky as Demeter, Wichita 2007.

Behind her, left to right: Annie Funke as Jennyanydots, Roy Lightner as Mungojerrie, and Melinda Wakefield Alberty as Jellylorum.

Wichita masterpost here.

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Wichita 2007 masterpost

This was a regional production, and we don't currently have a page for it on the wiki (though I may make one if I get around to it). (Edit: I have now done this!)

There is a bootleg, but I found myself perplexed when watching it: there were too many (orange) boys, and I couldn't quite put names to faces!

It's primarily based on Broadway and the US tours (especially, of course, the contemporary Troika tour), but not exclusively.

So I went on a dive, found the names of cast members and assembled a little photo album from their public social media posts.

(Cast names and links to other posts below the cut; or just check the production tag.)

So far as I can tell, the principal boy kittens are called Bill Bailey and Pouncival (Pounce has the Troika design with a star-shaped black eye patch), but there's also a ?swing kitten called Carbuckety - and Carbuckety's design seems to be based on Admetus (that is, the cat who was, at the time, being called Plato in all European productions).

Etcetera is also present, as a swing who covers Grizabella: a pale yellow tabby, who could be confused for Jellylorum except that she has stronger facial markings and a broader wig.

Cast:

Alonzo: Todd Allen Walker Bill Bailey: Tyler Foy Bombalurina: Kimberly Fauré Carbucketty: Aaron Umsted Cassandra: Tiffany Lee Ocvirk Coricopat: David A. Caamano Demeter: Lisa Rohinsky (now Bronshteyn) Deuteronomy: Emmanuel Mani Cadet Etcetera: Stephanie Martignetti Grizabella: Garrett Elise Long Gus/Bustopher: Nicholas F. Saverine Jellylorum: Melinda Wakefield Alberty Jennyanydots: Annie Funke Mistoffelees: Chaz Wolcott Mungojerrie: Roy Lightner Munkustrap: Johnny Stellard Plato: Taurean Everett Pouncival: Ryan Koss Rum Tum Tugger: Alex Michael Stoll Rumpleteazer: Sam Berman Sillabub: Deanna Glover Skimbleshanks: Billy Johnstone Tantomile: Paige Williams Victoria: Olivia Policicchio (now Fisher)

Creatives & Crew:

Director and choreographer: Dana Solimando Assistant director / assistant choreographer: Billy Johnstone Music director: Thomas Wesley Douglas Lighting designer: David Neville Sound designer: David Muehl Hair/makeup: Brandelyn Fulton

(Note that Billy Johnstone - Skimble and AD - was Coricopat in the last few years of the original Broadway production; Chaz Wolcott went on to play Mistoffelees in the Troika tour; and Kim Faure, of course, became Demeter in the Broadway revival.)

The links below lead to tumblr compilations of all the images I've been able to find. I added fewer than half of them to the wiki, because there are a lot of very similar images, or images that are too informal to be appropriate for the wiki.

Links:

1. Carbuckety and other orange boys

2. Kim Faure as Bombalurina (plus some Plato, Demeter, and Gumbie trio)

3. Demeter and Plato

4. Demeter and Alonzo

5. Alonzo, Bill Bailey, and Mistoffelees

6. The girls doing the honky-tonk

7. Skimble's number

8. Victoria and Plato being 'romantic' - now with added toilet humour

9. Pouncival being primped

10. Tantomile and Coricopat

11. Demeter

12. Bill Bailey

13. Victoria and Mungojerrie (plus Skimble and Carbuckety)

14. Plato and Mistoffelees

15. Alonzo with (non-cast) friends

16. Plato with (cast) friends

17. Tugger, Munk, and Plato

18. Etcetera and Jellylorum

19. Alonzo, Plato, and Bill Bailey

20. More Plato

21. Plato when he let his friends do his makeup

22. Jennyanydots

23. The Misto-Deut cuddle

24. Macavity (plus Deut and Munk)

25. Mungojerrie

26. Alonzo, plus Growltiger