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POC who have played Skimbleshanks

Requested by @marastarfar

(Names and productions provided below)

-Daniel Monteiro (2010 - Brazil Tour) -Willie Rosario  (1983 - 1985 - US Tour 1)  -Brett Michael Lockley (Understudy) (2019 - 2020 - US Tour 6)  -Moon Byeong-gwon (문병권) (2008/2009/2011 - South Korea) -Marat Abdrakhimov (2005 - Moscow) -Yanis Si Ahmed (Swing) (2015 - Paris) -Aaron Albano (2017 - Broadway Revival) -F. Dion Davis (1983 - Vienna)  -Dante Hernández (Understudy) (2013/2018 - Mexico)  -Karabo Maithufi (2009 - South Africa) -Zhargal Zhalsanov (Swing) (2005 - Moscow)  -Da Mula ( 达姆拉) (2012 - China) 

(Note that this set does not include all examples of POC who have played Skimbleshanks in the past or present. For example, it does not include performers from Shiki Cats.)

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Mungojerrie’s photo face. Seon Jeong-chan, 2011 Korea tour.

With...

1. Yu Hoe-ung as Mistoffelees and Lee Sang-jun as Deuteronomy

2 and 4. Seong Bu-yeon as Cassandra and Kwon Yong-guk as Alonzo

5. ?Hwang Se-jun as George on the left of the photo, and Moon Byeong-gwon as Skimbleshanks on the right

6. Insooni as Grizabella

7. ?Kim Su-min as Victoria

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Plato’s Villain Origin Story (part 12): ... he starts to crack. He snarls. He headbutts Mistoffelees away. Is this the beginning of the end? Has the perpetual torment lost us our sweet Plato and will the black lines of face paint win him over forever???

(part 11 | part 13)

Korean tour, 28 December 2011. Paek Du-San as Plato/Macavity,  Moon Byeong-gwon as Skimbleshanks, Yu Hoe-ung as Mistoffelees.

(Masterpost.)

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Plato’s Villain Origin Story (part 15): At the eleventh hour, Mistoffelees continues to remind Plato of the depths to which he could sink if he chose to complete his Macavity makeup. Plato continues to giggle. But oh no, there are only two gifsets left, and they have to run off and sing about Growltiger and Griddlebone - how will they bring him back to the side of light in so little time?

(part 14 | part 16)

2011 Korean tour, 27 December; Paek Du-San as Plato/Macavity, Yu Hoe-ung as Mistoffelees, Kwon Yong-guk as Alonzo, and Moon Byeong-Gwon as Skimbleshanks.

(Masterpost.)

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Plato’s Villain Origin Story (part 14): Mistoffelees resorts to extreme methods and confronts Platocavity with a mask of What You Will Become If You Continue With This Face Paint.

... he laughed. he’s finally laughing!!! is that good or bad?? Everybody is amazed. Everybody wonders.

(part 13 | part 15)

2011 Korean tour, 27 December; Paek Du-San as Plato/Macavity, Yu Hoe-ung as Mistoffelees, Kwon Yong-guk as Alonzo, and Moon Byeong-Gwon as Skimbleshanks.

(Masterpost.)

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Plato’s Villain Origin Story (part 13): They might have pushed him too far toward villainy! Skimbleshanks and Mistoffelees try to win Plato back to goodness with the Power of Cute. But those black lines continue to take over his face...

(part 12 | part 14)

Korean tour, 25 December 2011. Paek Du-San as Plato/Macavity and Yu Hoe-ung as Mistoffelees.

(Masterpost.)

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Plato’s Villain Origin Story (part 9): are all the demons in hell sent to torment him???

(part 8 | part 10)

Korean tour, 28 December 2011. Paek Du-San as Plato/Macavity, Hong Gyeong-su as Munkustrap, Yu Hoe-ung as Mistoffelees, and Moon Byeong-gwon as Skimbleshanks. (I assume the woman is a dresser or stage hand.)

(Masterpost.)

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Plato’s Villain Origin Story (part 10): The incessant torment is starting to take its toll. Curse those dour Piratical tykes.

(part 9 | part 11)

Korean tour, 25 December 2011. Paek Du-San as Plato/Macavity, Yu Hoe-ung as Mistoffelees, and Moon Byeong-gwon as Skimbleshanks.

(Masterpost.)

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Plato’s Villain Origin Story (part 7): Insert Jaws music here.

(part 6 | part 8)

Korean tour, 25 December 2011. Paek Du-San as Plato/Macavity, Yu Hoe-ung as Mistoffelees, and Moon Byeong-Gwon as Skimbleshanks.

(Masterpost.)

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Plato’s Villain Origin Story (part 11): Skimbleshanks is chasing a non-existent bird. Munkustrap is trying to work out how to bring up a hairball. Alonzo is. Making insistent kitten noises. Platocavity cannot operate. under these. conditions.

(part 10 | part 12)

2011 Korean tour, 27 December; Paek Du-San as Plato/Macavity, Hong Gyeong-su as Munkustrap, Kwon Yong-guk as Alonzo, and Moon Byeong-Gwon as Skimbleshanks.

(Masterpost.)

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A True Villain Origin Story: How Plato Became Macavity (masterpost).

Compiled from recovered footage of Plato just trying to get some work done in peace...

2011 Korea cast, around Christmas 2011. Paek Du-San as Plato/Macavity, with Yu Hoe-ung as Mistoffelees, Hong Gyeong-su as Munkustrap, Kwon Yong-guk as Alonzo, and Moon Byeong-gwon as Skimbleshanks.

Links below the cut.

Part 1: Mistoffelees spots his target. Part 2: Mistoffelees begins to bother his victim. Part 3: Mistoffelees finds an accomplice. Part 4: The accomplice has ideas. Part 5: The accomplice finds an accomplice! Part 6: Peace, glorious peace... Part 7: .... ominous background noises ... Part 8: ... the peace is shattered. Villain levels are increasing. Part 9: What is Munkustrap doing? Part 10: Plato begins to crack. Part 11. he cANnot opERatE unDer theSE COnditiONs?! Part 12: Plato begins to snap. Part 13: Can the power of cuteness save Plato from becoming Macavity? Part 14: Mistoffelees confronts him with an image of his hideous future. Part 15: One last attempt to stop the transformation. Part 16: Oven Mittoffelees. Part 17: The startling plot twist of a finale!

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How about...Skimbleshanks one-line multilanguage?

(Headphone user warning: The volumes of the tracks will vary throughout, as some of them are unofficial audios - some are louder than others)

Languages and performers under the cut.

Brazilian Portuguese - Daniel Monteiro  Chinese - Da Mula (达姆拉) Czech - Hynek Svrček (Presumably) Dutch (Amsterdam) - Corné du Crocq English - David Arneil French (1989) - Thierry Gondet French (2015 Revival) - Sylvain Mathis German (Vienna 1983) - F. Dion Davis German (Hamburg) - Paul Keller Hungarian -Cseke Péter Italian - Roberto Colombo Japanese (2019) -Yuuma Tanabe (田邊祐真) Korean - Moon Byeong-gwon (문병권) Norwegian - Wayne McKnight Polish - Wojciech Dmochowski (Presumably) Russian - Marat Abdrakhimov Spanish (Mexico) - Armando Moreno Spanish (Madrid) - Alberto Sanchez Swedish - Glenn Nilsson

(Note that a couple of languages are missing - including the Flemish, Finnish and 3rd German translation. This was taken from what I have readily available.)