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Side Show (1931) Roy Del Ruth

June 17th 2023

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Roy Lightner as Mungojerrie (and Siamese), Wichita 2007.

Wichita masterpost here.

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Miami Memory by Alex Cameron

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Billy Johnstone as Skimbleshanks, Todd Allen Walker as Alonzo, Stephanie Martignetti as Etcetera, Sam Berman as Rumpelteazer, and Roy Lightner as Mungojerrie (Wichita 2007)

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Information about Thomas Del Ruth

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0215878/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

Thomas Del Ruth was born on may 1st 1942 in Beverly Hills California he is the son of Film Producer/Director Roy Del Ruth and Film and Musical comedy star Winnie Lightner. Tom's father has a star on Hollywood Blvd walk of fame. Tom from a very early age had developed a strong interest in the film business due  to his constant exposure to all the various facets of it, he was frequently on set's with either his Mother or Father  and through that exposure began to develop an unbridled interest in Cinematography he was fascinated by the contribution that the Director of Photography made through the use of Art and Science and consequently went on to choose that as his career path. Tom began his career as a Print Model and Commercial Actor in 1965 after serving in the US Army as a Paratrooper. But he new his real desire laid behind the camera. As a result he enrolled in USC Cinema School while working at Walt Disney Studio's in the Mail and Message Department. And has chance would have it, he was introduced to Saul Halprin who was the head of the Camera Department at 20Th Century Fox. That chance meeting produced an invitation to start his career at Fox.

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Billy Johnstone as Skimbleshanks, plus Todd Allen Walker as Alonzo, Stephanie Martignetti as Etcetera, Tyler Foy as Bill Bailey, Sam Berman as Rumpelteazer, and Roy Lightner as Mungojerrie; Wichita 2007.

Wichita masterpost here.

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Olivia Policicchio as Victoria in the 2007 Wichita regional production; plus Roy Lightner as Mungojerrie

The two of them, plus Billy Johnstone as Skimbleshanks (Roy is in green, Billy is in blue).

Those three, plus Jenny (Annie Funke) and Carbuckety (Aaron Umsted)!

Carbuckety is kneeling in front.

Wichita masterpost here.

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Wichita 2007: the mystery of Carbuckety!

This production has too many orange boys. When I first saw it, I kept seeing too many Platos - or possibly too many Pouncivals! Basically, they have a Plato based on Broadway/Troika Plato (grey/brown with eye patch), and a Pouncival based on Broadway/Troika Pounce (nothing like London Carbuckety), and a Bill Bailey based on Broadway/Troika Tumblebrutus... and... uh. A Carbuckety, who seems to be based on Admetus.

Add that to Mungojerrie and Skimble (and a limited makeup palette!) and you have lots of orange. Let's break it down.

(Wichita masterpost here.)

Here's Carbuckety (Aaron Umsted) with Alonzo (Todd Alllen Walker). Not that Carbuckety's unitard is base yellow and his wig and arm/legwarmers are mostly orange; he has a white muzzle extending down over his chin, and his eyebrow/lashes streak up over his forehead. He has a distinct white 'blaze' coming back up from his nose to his wig, faintly outlined with black. (Also Alonzo is pretty.)

Carbuckety is also part of the Raffish crew! Left to right, him, Alonzo, Skimble (Billy Johnstone), Tugger (Alex Michael Stoll), Munkustrap (Johnny Stellard).

By comparison, Mungojerrie and Pouncival are Siamese. (Left to right: Bill Bailey (Tyler Foy), Tantomile (Paige Williams), Growltiger (Nicholas Saverine), Pouncival (Ryan Koss), Mungojerrie (Roy Lightner). Coricopat (David Caamano) is kneeling in front.)

Here are Coricopat and Pouncival (Cori still in Siamese get-up from the head down). Coricopat has his usual asymmetrical makeup. Pouncival has grey in his wig, his eye patches are centred on the eye socket rather than extending down from the wig, he doesn't have very distinct patches on his unitard (unlike Bill Bailey), and he has no white on his forehead or chin (unlike Carbuckety, Skimbleshanks, and Mungojerrie).

Now, Carbuckety here isn't exactly Admetus (any more than any of them are exact copies of any Broadway or London design). But when it's translated under the stage lights, he's about as recognisable as an Admetus type as any of the others are for their own stage antecedents. Basically, he's a tall redhead with symmetrical makeup and eyebrows, and he hangs around looking benevolent in the background a lot! (He's especially cute when he bounces with Skimble in the car during the Gumbie Cat tap section.)

But he isn't Plato. Just to clear up all the eye patch boys in one post... here's Plato (Taureen Everett). This is a very definite Broadway/Troika boy - and in no way orange!

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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