#nonrep

[themysticaldivinities]

jemima/sillabub redesign !! I made this based off of an idea for a nonrep I have in my head :)

• star theme on her costume because of her connection with the sky and spirituality in general.

• lots of red. I <33 red jemi.

• also heterochromia jemi is one of my favorite hcs so.

• idk what else to say

• I love jemi chat !!

[toki-toro]

Cats but if it was a traditional ballet like Nutcracker or Swan Lake

[szhmidty]

Reddit is such a perfect mixture of hauty arrogance and downright stupidity, sometimes. It's almost beautiful.

[delphic-oracle-cat]

seeing the quality of the makeup from the new international tour makes me want to draw my own lil makeup ideas for the cats,,,

[lie-in-a-bureau-drawer]

I'm seeing The Jellicle Ball at PAC NYC tonight! Currently waiting in the lobby lounge and if I might say, this venue is swanky! I bought a fan at the merch table and a glass of rosé at concessions. My ticket is right up against the stage, at one of the cabaret tables. I'll reblog this post with more thoughts once I'm in my seat and again after the show!

[sillybub]

I heard that the Ballroom Cats revival is gonna have the designs looking pretty human and idk how to feel about that. I remember a Czech nonrep with a similar vibe where they all wore cat masks that I thought was cool but like. If you're gonna do Cats don't be a fucking coward about it. If you're embarrassed about them being kitty cats who meow and crawl around on all fours then that's a YOU problem

[ultimate-nonreplica-contest]

Submission is closed!

I will be posting the bracket tomorrow, and then the polls at noon on Saturday (EST) because it’ll be better to start it on the weekend!

Be sure to spread the word so we have a big enough voting pool :))

[jelliclekay]

I just do not understand Cats productions where they make the characters not cats

[catenary-chad]

Whenever I run into yet another sassy northeastern US transit youtuber I remember how those types are a MAJOR influence on how I characterize Electra. They are always hilariously defensive of electrification and various “rough” northeastern cities with vaguely functional transit systems (ESPECIALLY Philadelphia). They cover up how they’re often stereotypically autistic and kind of flat by just constantly snarking everything and roasting how crappy systems are (but they genuinely love them and really want them to do better)

[pinksilvace]

Friends and I floated the idea of an ALW-themed Just Dance game and I'm thinking about it so hard right now

[seawispdenizen]

I hate fandom wiki so much but it sucks that's pretty much the only way for me to find information on the niche, obscure stuff I like or find.

[suppenzeit]

With essentially any other production (including certain nonreplicas) you'd instantly have an idea of what sort of train they were, but not London! You can tell when someone is a national or a coach or a freight car! But not with London!!! I'm like "ok you look like an engine- oh. no, youre a coach apparently", and I can't actually tell what sort of coach or freight anyone is. (Not to mention that all the components seem to basically just have the same design... On Ice looking ass!!!)

In London everyone is just Loud and Plastic and they all kind of blend together... When ELECTRA doesn't stand out I'd say there's a problem with your designs (I know Update Elektra isn't colorful but he literally has a light up mohawk and a million LEDs on him. He stands out)

Kinda sad how the ensemble costumes got turned into bland lookalikes of each other considering how the fandom picked up on the ensemble characters based on their distinct looks that told you a lot about their character. Someone like Krupp barely had a role in the actual play but his design told you enough to give you an idea on him. Hmm thoughts

[delphic-oracle-cat]

Finished watching Tecklenburg and it is now my favorite nonrep hands down !! I need it etched into my brain permanently !!

[agencyboys]

Niko doesn't have a set hero color like Edwin, Charles, and Crystal.

Feel free to put your reasoning in the tags!!! Especially if you have a specific color in mind!!!

[millenari]

hi i know you had posted about perth cats back way back in march but i was wondering if you knew anything more about the production? i’ve went down a rabbit hole trying to figure out who is what cat and who plays who using your list as a base to go off of and several hours and a good little stockpile of images later i still haven’t found anything more.

what i have found though is jemima’s actor’s full name is charlotte louise, victoria’s actor was an actor called avie grey (though i don’t know what cat is victoria) and other actors of unnamed cats include: lisa williams, tori brown, ella tweedle, rebekah wilson, lavina monk, caitlin atherton, jordy andrews and jaxon coke (all found through tagged images and birthdays posts by platinum productions on facebook) i can provide images of each of these unnamed actors so there is a cat face to attach to them just not any names still - @themagicoolcat

Not weird! I haven't looked much into Perth lately but I took another peek around with the names you listed. I didn't find much (but I did stumble upon some of those birthday posts you mentioned, I don't know how I didn't find them the first time).

It looks like Avie Grey played the clown cat, so if she's Victoria that means Vicky is the clown?

Plus Tori Brown would then be straight-haired pink cat, but I didn't see any names for that character.

I did find some of costume pictures of Sooz Bennet/Bennett? who plays Skimble, so based off of my (poor) sense of facial recognition, I think the orange long-haired one is Skimble

(Ignore the crazy person pin board vibe of my notes lmao)

Only other thing I really came up with is that I think (think) Tara Lynette Elliot mightve been on the production. Specifically and only bc she's been employed by the same company for other musicals + she looks a hell of a lot like the half pink-half orange jacket cat, which could mean nothing but I'm choosing to believe.

Given that it seems like none of the ensemble characters have ever had their names posted (by official or cast accounts) I honestly wonder if theyre just not named characters. Notably this cast skews heavily female, and quite a few of the usual Cats ensemble characters are male. So it's very possible that they just weren't named if their role wasn't 1-1 to some replica character's role (Demeter, Bomba, Victoria, etc).

I feel like the cast members would say something in the caption alongside a picture of their role ('had fun playing Alonzo in Cats this year!' or whatever) if they did have names and yet I have yet to come across anything of the like. Which is the lame disappointing answer unfortunately, but this production wouldnt be the only nonrep (or rep honestly) with a handful of unnamed ensemble or swing characters.

[op3ra]

colorful cats nonrep redesign -- some info under the cut

i finally pulled together my two-year-old colorful designs--and filled in the rest of the cast--so i can finally share!

it's a bit underbaked: i don't have a setting in mind, other than perhaps a colorfully painted junkyard, but color in general would be very, very prominent in the show--with grizabella having lost all her color except for her one final pink heart, and macavity's fight sequence ideally being illuminated only by a set of sodium lamps--causing the entire stage to appear monochromatic--taking color away from all the other cats until mister mistoffelees returns it in his number.

overall the main point was to introduce bright or unnatural colors to all the cats; I really liked how mexico '18 included a bit of pink and a few bright colors in their designs, so I wanted to go a lot further with that, and use the london costume style

later on i would like to expand on the designs since i obv used the same silhouette for everyone when there SHOULD be some variation in the wig shapes and shoulder-fluffies placement, etc, but i definitely didn't have the time or energy for that this time around lol

note: the 'chorus' cats are all my pre-existing ocs except for tabbyswing!