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My girls…they’re all together 🥹

Cats Madrid 2003; Sandra Rausell as Jemima, Eva Álvarez as Victoria and Isabel Olivera García as Rumpleteazer.

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Skimbleshanks... please be gentle with the Jemima.

Madrid 2004: Alberto Sanchez, with Sandra Rausell as Jemima and Helen de Quiroga as Grizabella. Compare how gentle 1998 film Skimble is!

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Teaching the girls to admire a Real Gentleman. ‘Bustopher Jones’, Madrid 2004.

Marta Malone as Jennyanydots, Sandra Rausell as Jemima, Guadalupe Lancho as Demeter, Teresa Cora as Victoria, Gorane Markinez as Jellylorum.

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He protecc!

No nasty audience gets to stare at Jemima on Tumblebrutus’ watch.

Juan Carlos Verdú as Tumblebrutus, Sandra Rausell as Jemima; Madrid 2004.

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Cassandra (Laura Rodríguez) and the mystic twins (Santiago Cano and Silvia Álvarez) in the quiet interlude before “Moments of Happiness”, Madrid 2004.

Also Demeter and Jemima (Guadalupe Lancho and Sandra Rausell), lounging around prettily - and also Pouncival (Andrés Pérez Lopez) who wants to get in on the cuddles and gets ignored.

(But it’s alright - he gets a hug in the end.)

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I can’t decide who’s reaction to Jenny’s name is more adorable. Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer, going from nosetouches to mad rolling giggles? Jemima and Pouncival bouncing together? Victoria pawing at her ears? Bombalurina and Jellylorum going AW YISS WE GET TO DO THE ANDREW SISTERS THING? Plato being very very tol and pawing at his ears? Or the way Skimbleshanks just dissolves into a string of exclamation points?

Madrid 2004.

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Alonzo, please don’t yeet the kitten.

The line that Pouncival interrupts - “Jellicle cats are merry / and bright!” in English is here “Whether they be large / or small!” So Alonzo apparently disagrees with the presence of small Jellicles - or one particular inconvenient one, anyway!

Madrid 2004: Javier Toca Juara as Alonzo, Sandra Rausell as Jemima, Andrés Pérez Lopez as Pouncival, Teresa Cora as Victoria.

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Shout-out to This Amateur Production...

All I know of it is this collection of rehearsal photos from the facebook of the Mungojerrie. The photos date from March 2015—although I think the run was 2014–15, and the photos were posted after the run was over. It was somewhere in Spain—probably in Valencia—and produced by EDAE (whoever they are!). Sandra Rausell (Jemima in the 2003 Madrid production) was involved in some way—director, resident choreographer, or similar.

It's a small cast, and only four of them are male (Munkustrap and Mistoffelees are played by women). Here they are—in the second photo, Sandra is the one not in costume.

More photos (and analysis) under the cut. There are thirty photos and two video clips so, to keep them all together, I'll do two reblogs.

Firstly, let's name all the actors! (With the character name if it's unambiguous.)

Back row, left to right: Adrian Lopez Mingueza (Tugger), Jesus González Calatayud, Natalia Contell Castillo (Victoria), Mireia Chambó, (unnamed), (unnamed), Lena Brox (Grizabella).

Middle row: Laura Arribas (Bombalurina/Demeter), Elia Lopez Gallardo (Mistoffelees), Zoe Kluss (Demeter/Bombalurina), Niko Sanchez Tejero (?Macavity)

Front row: Yessica Iranzo López, Carla Almeria Selma (Munkustrap), Dani Flor Sánchez (Mungojerrie), Arantxa Albiach, Marta Gálvez

While the costumes aren't much help for identifying characters, the makeup in most cases sticks fairly closely to that of replica productions. For example, I think Arantxa and Marta (far right, front row) are probably Cassandra and Jennyanydots. Deuteronomy, interestingly, looks very like Tugger. I'm guessing Niko (middle row, far right) is Macavity (and either Plato or Alonzo) simply because he's the only man left, and the makeup is fairly neutral. The three less obvious girls—Yessica, front row far left, and the two unnamed girls at the back—don't really have many distinguishing features at this stage, so let's just call them kittens for now.

And Mireia, next to Victoria in the back row... well, I'm calling her Jemimateazer for now. We'll see why when we get to the photos of her with Mungojerrie!

Here's some more group photos...

Bomba crouching over Jenny and Jemimateazer draped over Jerrie are adorable, thanks.

There's our Cassandra at the left in the front row, and a better view of Jemimateazer's wild hair and orange stripes. Sadly in this photo she is not wearing her Tugger-style gloves but please admire them in the other photos.

And now we dance!

Macavity, Mungojerrie, Jemimateazer, nameless black kitten

With Mistoffelees and Munkustrap in front.

Glimpse of Grizabella, for some reason, and Mungojerrie vibing.

Deme and Bomba (or possibly Bomba and Deme) in front.

This might actually be the Macavity dance, because Mungojerrie apparently participated in that too:

The clip isn't from an actual performance of the show, but from a gala highlights show at the end of the theatre's season. And that clip, together with this snippet of Tugger's song and Grizabella the Glamour Cat, will show you why I'm not quite certain who's who out of Demeter and Bombalurina—especially since that's Jemimateazer singing Demeter's lines in the second!

Also please note Tugger's spiky hair—and that Deuteronomy is onstage, being protective of Tugger (who is the one to scratch Grizabella). So it's possible that, given the lack of male voices, Deut arrives earlier in this production and takes over some of Munkustrap's role—or it could just have been done differently for this gala!

More to come–check reblogs!