#shiki demeter

[statisticalcats2]

Shiki (2018)

Bombalurina, Demeter

[white-cat-of-doom]

New character portraits from Japan as they get ready for opening night in Shizuoka tomorrow, 17 July 2024!

Kanako Fujiwara as Sillabub.

Ayaka Yoshida as Jellylorum.

Yukako Shingu as Jemima.

Nanako Yoshimura as Victoria.

Namiko Hanada as Jennyanydots.

Akane Aihara as Demeter.

Haruka Yamazaki as Bombalurina.

Rika Takeshita as Tantomile.

Ayu Shimizu as Rumpleteazer.

Ryudo Tsutaki as Mungojerrie.

Kyomi Ishibashi as Cassandra.

Junpei Sano as Tumblebrutus.

Miki Kanehara as Grizabella.

Yuto Tanaka as Mistoffelees.

Yujin Haga as Gilbert.

Suguru Fuminaga as Macavity.

Junpei Wakebe as Munkustrap.

Kazuki Kanemoto as Old Deuteronomy.

Seiji Hashimoto as Bustopher Jones and Gus.

Masaru Kitamura as Rum Tum Tugger.

Kaisaer Tatike as Skimbleshanks.

Shuichi Kawazu as Carbucketty.

Ryujiro Isshiki as Coricopat.

All photos from the previous stop in Nagoya, which took place between July 2022 and May 2024.

[ugaya-92]

[misaki-toko]

This is a report on CATS by Shiki Theater Company, which was performed in Nagoya on June 18, 2023.

On this day, for the first time in my life, I saw Mungojerrie played by Yuuma Tanabe. He played Skimbleshanks on another day, but it was very interesting to see how he performed it in a completely different way.

In Old Gumbie Cat, Mistoffelees, played by Akito Iwamura, lay on his back on the oven with his hands curled up, perhaps imitating Mitsuki Kasahara's Jennyanydots. He was so cute.

In Rum Tum Tugger, Demeter, played by Marina, gets depressed when Tugger ignores her, and Bombalurina, played by Erika Orita, sees this and consoles her by touching her shoulder, which was very cute.

During Growltiger's number, the large Skimbleshanks, played by Kaisaer Tatike, were leaning on Mungojerrie in the background, mesmerized by Griddlebone's voice. So Mungojerrie and Mistoffelees were panicking. they were cute.

↓ Difference without text

[jennanydots]

South Korea, 2008.

sent these to my friends side by side and only later realised they literally line up

[junkyard-gifs]

There's no-one like Macavity!

Shiki 2023.

[godnattakatta]

demelurina

[the-cat-at-the-theatre-door]

For no other reason than it’s Thursday and the snow is finally melting here (which means Spring Cleaning of the hoard), I’ve got a little bits and bobbles Shiki Giveaway for you all, this time. We have:

-SIX of the 6000th performance in Japan character pins (Grizabella, Victoria, Old Deuteronomy, Sillabub, Coricopat and Mistoffelees)

-A 30th Anniversary Jennyanydots charm

-A Volume 1 Gilbert Secret charm

-A Round Two Volume 1 Jemima Secret Charm

-THREE character trading cards from Osaka (2001 - 2003), including Jennyanydots, Demeter and Bombalurina

RULES (Please read these carefully and follow them):

1. Entries will open today (April 13th) and will close APRIL 20th - in one week. You can enter at any time between now and then, but anything after than date will not be counted.

2. ONE entry per person - when you reblog THIS post, you will be assigned a random number, and the receiver will be picked by a random generator. Likes do not count as entries. You do not need to be following in order to enter. Multiple reblogs will not give you a higher chance - we want to make it fair for everyone. Entry doesn’t guarantee receiving, please play fair!

3. Shipping within North America will be easier for me, but I am willing to open this up to individuals overseas. HOWEVER, if you are picked and you are overseas, I would very much appreciate you going in half on any shipping/postage charges if they are ridiculous (and sometimes they are). Any import fees will most likely settle on the receiver, so please keep that in mind.

4. Obviously, you must be alright with providing me with shipping information - rest assured you will be providing me this information in confidence and I will not share it with anyone. If you are not comfortable sharing this information, that’s completely alright, but please do not enter as I won’t be able to send it to you.

A winner will be selected on April 21st, and will receive a message indicating that they’re getting a present. I will try to get it shipped out to you as soon as I can afterwards, and give an update once that happens.

I will do my absolute best to ensure the items arrive to the winner, but once it’s handed over to the post office, it’s unfortunately out of my hands.

[jelliclekay]

Do you have any favourite Cats costume design ever?

I do!

Here's a list of my favorite Cats costume designs in no particular order

Shiki Munkustrap

Early London Bombalurina

Mexico Demeter

Asia Tour Electra (the fluffy warmers!!)

Broadway Revival Jenny

[yoa-artblog]

The Shiki Cats Post TM

28.05.23 Show

I had the chance to see Cats in Nagoya last month and I still can´t believe it! I was also able to meet an internet friend who also loves the show and it was overall such a nice experience <3

Some pics are blurry but I was shaking haha, shiki was one of my most wanted to see shows, the photos I had seen were always so colorful and looked like so much fun! It did not dissapoint, tough it was very different to the 98 movie (the version I'm the most familiar with) and the past Intl. Tour (The only other version I've seen live) so I was furiously writting notes on things that stood out to me soon after the show.

• Tantomile (she looks like Cassandra) is the first cat you see on stage.

• They do the trapeze bit for jellicle songs for jellicle cats!!!!

• Munk was 😳😳😳 very good voice, super cute with the babies.

• They have both Syllabub and Jemima, Silly is the kitten, the one that helps Griz out, Jemima is a young adult cat.

• The gumbie trio were Tantomile, Jellylorum and Jemima.

• The beetles had wings they could move around as part of the choreo.

• Tugger has one yellow, spotted leg and it makes him look like he's wearing those pants with only one leg??? Very slutty, we love that for him.

• Munk sings the terrible bore line.

• Jellylorum sings the curious beast line.

• Grizabella still has the old cat design, we love to see it.

• Jerrie and Teazer don't do the cartwheels 💔💔💔💔💔

• Teazer is the cutest thing ever though, she was so fun!! I couldn't stop looking at her the whole time, she's already one of my faves but she is PERFECT in shiki.

• There was a little bit where Teazer and Tanto were cuddling behind Old Deut and Teazer kept pawing at her for attention and I melted.

• Pekes and Pollicles is still Munk's number through and thorough. The dog costumes were very cute and there were many different versions and "materials".

• The Rumpus Cat suit has muscle padding?????

• Shiki said Bombastrap rights and I owe them my life. You could see them cuddling on the bg at various points through the show.

• Pass de deux is performed by Tumblebrutus and Cassandra. (Cori and Tanto designs).

• No orgy???? They do dance in pairs but there's no """cuddle""" pile.

• Overall less horny and more playful.

• Tuxedo Mask Macavity my beloved!!!!! I think that's a very fun design for Mac asldjclsjfjskd but the threatening factor is negative, he just looks very fluffy and cute.

• Mac's fur texture and length is very similar to Old Deut's so that's nice!! Loving the family resemblance.

• They do Growltiger!!! I loved seeing the boys in their little pirate costumes 🥺💖🥺💖🥺

• They choreographed the sword fight so the clanks would match the music and it was SO COOL.

• Jelly had such a nice voice.

• SKIMBLESHANKS THE RAILWAY CAT THE CAT OF THE RAILWAY TRAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Skimble has a little hat and my friend was telling me they change it for every city to match the uniform of the train conductors in that city. HOW CUTE IS THAT!!!!! 🥺🥺🥺🥺

• The girls are the passengers while the boys are the seats during the play pretend bit asdfkgjslnf

• The fake train has a window so you can see Munk is playing the conductor 🥺🥺🥺

• They also used a teapot as the chimney and it makes teapot sounds, I just loved everything about this number okay!!!!!

• The Macavity fight is a little weird because he doesn't take Munk 1v1 but rather is everyone against Mac from the beginning.

• I really wanted to see this specific Munk fight because of... reasons, so that's a bummer 😞

• Demeter has a deeper voice than what I usually hear for her, I really liked it.

• They let toms join the Macavity number!!!!!!! I was tunnel visioning into Munk but I'm pretty sure Alonzo and Tumble were there too.

• Misto comes down the rope!!!!!!!

• He does a lot more magic tricks, including making things and other cats fly.

• You can hear thunder crackling when he manipulates light, that was a very cool detail.

• Misto and Tugger have a lot of shared choreography, they do several different BFF handshakes 🥺

• Victoria is Misto's assistant for the big trick.

• Sillabub is the one who touches Grizabella first.

• UFO Griz

• They did this very cute thing after final bows where they kept coming to the stage as long as people were still clapping. They went and came back to the stage again at least 7 times until the theater turned up the lights 😹

[boydykedevo]

hehehehehe... which cats has your favorite costumes and can we see them

hmmmm okay so i have a couple answers to this.

for replica costumes I like, Alonzo has that very striking black + white color palette which i think looks really nice (ofc they are completely fucking that up nowadays but alas)

Misto also has that going on, but i dont really find it quite as striking. I dont really love the all white face. But if we look at non-replicas too, I really like how the Mexico productions do more interesting stuff with his makeup. It gives him a different vibe which i dig so hard

honestly i just love the Mexico designs in general, theyre so much fun. the colors are so bold!!

the legwarmers especially... i love the look of the legwarmers in general a lot and something about how they do them here is just sooooo good

back to replica designs tho, i like Electra! The orange peeking through the black is very evocative of a tortoiseshell, and also gives her a neat firey look which suits her name

And i like how Demeter has a similar thing going on with the black and the yellow!

it gives her a different vibe to Bomba, but their designs still share enough elements for it to be obvious theyre connected, which is neat!!

ive been mostly going with chorus cats so far, cuz it feels like cheating to pick a song cat when theyre SUPPOSED to stand out, but I gotta mention my girl Jenny!! The dual song costumes for her double life is fun, and theyre cohesive together while also reflecting the side of her each is for: cozy big overcoat, and bouncy tassel dress.

also Skimbleshanks... idk what to say besides that the vest makes him feel like a storybook character and thats cute

actually it doesnt quite count as replica but i like how shiki makes his legwarmers look like knee length leather boots. pervert.

ditching the replica rule entirely, cuz I think the standard Victoria replica costume is fine, but i reallyyyyy like when productions do something else with it. I think it's all in the wig tbh

last two are the same but i couldnt find a pic that showed off the silver and the wig shape in one lol

and ofc shoutout to thunerseespiele for one of the best victoria designs of all time. they lose some points cuz im iffy on the... hair... but otherwise i really love it, it really takes advantage of being monochromatic!! it's so simple and elegant

[statisticalcats2]

Shiki (2022)

Demeter, Carbucketty

[white-cat-of-doom]

An opening night celebration for the Japanese cast in Shizuoka yesterday, 17 July 2024.

They will be in the city until the third week of September before moving to Hiroshima.

Maku Hiura as Asparagus/Growltiger, Haruka Yamazaki as Bombalurina, Shuichi Kawazu as Carbucketty, Eiko Kataoka as Cassandra, Mizuki Omori as Chorus Tugger, Yujin Haga as Coricopat, Marina Tada as Demeter, Akira Goto as Gilbert, Miki Kanehara as Grizabella, Yuzuki Miyokawa as Jellylorum, Mayumi Fujita as Jemima, Namiko Hanada as Jennyanydots, Masatoshi Futamura as Chorus Macavity, Shu Oshida as Mistoffelees, Ryudo Tsutaki as Mungojerrie, Junpei Wakebe as Munkustrap, Osamu Takai and Old Deuteronomy, Ayu Shimizu as Rumpleteazer, Shoyo Kamitani as Rumpus Cat, Yuzumi Shibamoto as Sillabub, Neo Oi as Skimbleshanks, Naomi Takada as Tantomile, TaeSun Kang as Tumblebrutus, and Hitomi Sekino as Victoria.

[the-clockwork-three]

here's my school's cats poster!

Oh this is so cool. a lot of the characters are actually caught quite accurately considering the fact that I'd say most of the makeup was probably done by the actors themselves.

okay heres my attempt to name the cats. considering the cast is like... 40 people i have to assume theres some oc's in there but also I'm going to pretend thats not an option and start naming them increasingly obscure swings

From left to right hese are Grizabella, ???, Victoria, Old Deuteromy. Considering these are the uhhhhhh plot relevant characters I assume ??? is Jemima

Misto and Tugger!!!

I thought this was Tantomile and Coricopat, but looking at the pose its actually likely Mungojerrie and Rumpleteaser.

this is deff the other set of twins. the colouring says rumple and jerry, the fact that we cant have two rumples and jerries says tanto and cori. I have no goddamn clue who the middle guy is. I'm going to say victor. because hes grey.

Oh hey its "victor" again. and Bustopher Jones. and other unidentifiable swings. I want to say the second from the right is The Rumpus Cat, mostly because the costume has a cool design, but I think YAE doesn't have his song. And the final guy is *spins wheel* Tumblebrutus.

LIGHTNING ROUND. Alonzo. Skimbleshanks and Munkustrap. Macavity.

Oh hi Cassandra. How i can I tell its Cassie? 1. shes less fluffy than the others. 2. shes doing a really good impression of 1998 Cassie's "Do something really weird and look straight into the camera and try to pull it off as cool and fail miserably" act, which i consider a fundamental part of her character.

.... gus? the theatre cat? Wearing clothes means songcat, and i read these clothes as "English Teacher" but also i genuinely cant tell if this is a boy or a girl. if this is a girl ummmmmmmm this is Jennyanydots because griz and rumple are accounted for. and this is objectively the best makeup in the cast omg the lines are so neat.

this one vexes me personally. my first instinct upon seeing the makeup is Quaxo from Shiki productions. however it is unlikely that this American school production is drawing inspiration from japan. so then I think Jellylorum. and then we have the dress. on one hand i sorta think its just that this person arrived a bit late and didn't have time to change into their full costume. on the other hand it reminds me of Bombalurina or Demeter in some non-reps. considering the colouring of the makeup is far closer to deme than bomba I lean more heavily towards her.

For the funsies I'm saying this is Deme

shes grey. shes a cat. this ones Greycat.

we have now reached the end of Solid Ideas. so now i'm just going to speedrun all the "important characters" that i missed and assign them at semi random

Jennyanydots, Bombalurina, Jellylorum

and my favourite girl chorus cats: Electra and Etcetera. decisions made entirely off of ear colours.

wait i actually think "electra" is "jemima" from the very first picture. my favourite girl chorus cats: Jemima/Sillabub (because this is an American production and i a little bit forgot but i will not be changing to the Broadway names) and Etcetera.

[misaki-toko]

This is a report on the Matinee of Cats performed by the Shiki Theater Company in Nagoya on September 28th.

From that day on, I fell in love with Bombalurina, played by Haruka Yamazaki, and my emotions became a mess.

In the Macavity number, Bombalurina, played by Haruka Yamazaki, and Demeter, played by Tsukushi Maruno, gave great performances.

Bombalurina, played by Haruka Yamazaki, had a mature yet powerful and sexy singing voice that was very attractive.

Also, her dancing was sexy and sexy, and I was completely captivated by her. And that situation still persists.

Demeter, played by Tsukushi Maruno, has a beautiful, relaxed singing voice, and the synergy with Bombalurina's singing voice makes it stand out even more, and I was deeply moved.

Her eyes were very large and striking, and she was extremely cute.

Coricopat, played by Mr. Oshida, was yawning boredly on top of a clay pipe during the Asparagus number, which was very cute.

He was a very emotional Coricopat and I never got tired of watching him.

During the curtain call, GoldenMacavity, played by Hikaru Kitani, and Victoria, played by Nemu Kondo, were patting the head of Gilbert, played by Akira Goto, and it was really cute.

[impeccablebackside]

What ethnicity would you think the Queens are?

That is truly quite a thought provoking question anon, but I do not think I have a realistically definitive answer. Do let me know what you have in mind though.

Perhaps most importantly with this question, my perspective and opinion is formed from exposure to the 98 film, 2019 movie, recent US Tour, and / or preferred boots of past productions (I happen to have a big hard-on for the 2016 Broadway Revival even though many people dislike it). The point is that a lot of how I imagine any of the queens stems from the specific actors portraying them in more immediately accessible visual media. Nothing inherently wrong with that, as all of the female actors from any of those places are hot as all hell.

The most pressing issue with this is that those actors are almost all predominantly white American or British women, so I tend to gravitate towards those ethnicities (or lack thereof) when picturing the queens. It is an unfortunately narrow-minded way of thinking due to the media I have been mostly exposed to and the fact that I am just some white dude.

That being said anon, I would prefer not to necessarily label any queen as being a specific ethnicity. There have been so many absolutely beautiful women casted throughout the world in different roles during the 40 or so years the musical has been around for. It is simply impossible and foolish to define any queen as being one ethnicity / 'type' because it diminishes or pushes out those who have represented the character just as well but do not fit that specific mould or definition. My opinion is that any ethnicity works for any queen, with maybe the only caveat that Rumple still has to have the Cockney accent. I promise that is not meant to pander or anything, I legitimately think everyone casted in show is beautiful and worthy of praise no matter what they look like.

Anyway, one of my personal favourite things are Asian women casted (outside of the Shiki productions) as Victoria because I think they portray the gentle grace of the white queen quite well. Does that mean they should only be Vic? Absolutely not. There have been a number of really cute Tantos or Jemimas / Sillabubs over the years that have been Asian too. I have a huge thing for the Japanese queens, and Asian actors in general as well. I think 'everyday' Asian beauty, particularly amongst Japanese women, is just so so beautiful. I have a hard time phrasing it in a way that would not come across as my appreciation being built from fetishized or sexualized preferences. It is not a fetish thing, I promise.

Otherwise, it is similar with black actresses anon. One (that immediately comes to mind - there have been more) of the hottest Casses ever in my humble opinion was black. Same with some of the more beautiful Demeters casted in the show.

As the musical progresses, there have been more and more ethnicities represented as well, and I think that is an absolutely amazing thing. For example, more recent (past 2-5 years or so) productions have had more South Asian actors casted and represented. I hope the push for increased diversity in theatre leads to more ethnic performers being given the chance to be in Cats and make their own mark.

All of this is not to exclude every single Shiki cast in the past 40ish years that have been literally nothing but stunning Japanese women casted as the queens, or the multiple Chinese language productions, or the French productions, or the Dutch productions, or the South Korean language productions, or the Spanish production, or the Russian production, or the various South American productions, or the substantial amount of German productions. Plus, that is not even to mention the (more than just a) handful of notable non-replica productions worldwide either with some very hot actors.

For example, if you told me I had to watch of production where Yuka N*tsuka was (simply the cutest) Vic, Rina Punw*ni was Rumple, Mari*h Reeves was Cass, K*rin Sang was Tanto, Gloria T*ba was Bomba, Emmanuelle N'Z*zi was Deme, Gloria A*ra was Jenny, Leah delos Santos was Sillabub, Li-T*ng Hsu as Griz, and Y*meko Aki was Jelly, I would think it would be a proverbial all-star cast. (Sorry for the *s - trying to keep this post out of the search for those names). You could easily switch out every single one of the actors with several others who are non-white, and it would still be an all-star cast.

That is the literal beauty of Cats. Anyone can be one of the queens and they would be a perfect fit.