#victugger

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Tugger has found a fan.... 👀

OH WAIT SHIT Tugger has a job to do he needs to sing about Mistoffelees!! on it 💯

tugger is not distractible. at all.

Dominik Hees and Hannah Kenna Thomas, plus Anna Carina Buchegger in the foreground as Rumpelteazer. Vienna revival, 19 June 2022, filmed by @falasta (despite me absent-mindedly also adding @cryptidvoidwritings to the watermark...).

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Victoria: The moon looks beautiful, doesn’t it? Plato, looking at Victoria: Yeah… but do you know what’s more beautiful? Victoria and Plato in unison: *sigh* Tugger.

[demons-incorrect-alw]

The Rum Tum Tugger: But Mr. Mistoffelees said I’m not his type.

Victoria: That’s impossible, you’re everyone’s type.

[storyweaverofgondor]

Victoria for the ship meme!! 😁

Both you and @statisticalcats sent me Victoria. Consider this an answer to both your asks.

OTP: Platoria

BROTP: Mistoffelees/Quaxo, Etcetera, Rumpleteazer, Jemima, Electra.

NOTP: Uh, maybe Jemtoria? I get why people ship it but growing up i always thought of Jemima as my cat and Victoria as my sister's so it feels weird to think of these two romantically.

MEHTP (A ship you don't hate but don't ship either, you just find it ok): Victeazer. It's cute. but i just really kinda . . . meh about it.

Rarepair: 2019 Tantoria and Victugger. Specifically Tecklenburg Victoria and Tugger for the second one. That Victoria gives me biker chick vibes and this Tugger . . . Well, we all know what this Tugger is XD I just think they'd be cute together.

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José Raúl Mangual covering Tugger and Gracie Anderson covering Victoria, sometime during the US tour's leg in Canada: 8–16 March 2022 (X).

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new US tour Tugger has his priorities straight: his debut, and Travis Anderson is already posing with Hyla and sunglasses. 😎

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Relationships in the 2021 US tour

No relationships in Cats are set in stone, and every production does things a bit differently—although some are more common or official than others! So here's what we've collected so far from actors' comments about the relationships between characters in the 2021 US tour.

Under a cut so it can be expanded as we go. If I've missed one, let me know—but with a link please! Sources are key.

(Alphabetical order.)

Alonzo x Demeter: A cute friendship which Lauren enjoys playing (X); and/or Demeter is Alonzo's onstage crush (X).

Bombalurina x Rumpelteazer: Rumpelteazer loves Bombalurina and wants to be her (X).

Bombalurina x Demeter: They're basically a single unit when it comes to looking after the kittens (X). They enjoy their character interactions, and Lauren refers to Chelsea's Bomba as her 'bae' (X X).

Bombalurina x Grizabella: Used to be best friends (X); plus here's Grizabella's backstory as told by Chelsea (X).

Bombalurina x Munkustrap: Like siblings (X).

Bombalurina x Victoria: Bombalurina is protective of Victoria, like she is of all the kittens, but isn't very close with her because Victoria "hasn't been through much" (X).

Cassandra x Sillabub: With Victoria, they form the three Jellicle musketeers! (X)

Cassandra x Tugger: She may be his daughter? (X)

Cassandra x Victoria: BFFs, and Hyla would love to play Cassandra because she's 'fierce' (X). With Sillabub, they are the three Jellicle musketeers! (X)

Coricopat x Tantomile: Twin siblings (X).

Coricopat x Tantomile x Victoria: Victoria thinks they're a bit weird but "loves her moments with them", and thinks their intelligence is cool (X).

Demeter x Sillabub: Lauren has referred to Sillabub as Demeter's and Munkustrap's daughter (X).

Demeter x Macavity: She loves Munkustrap but thinks Macavity is hot (X), and enjoys exploring Demeter's conflicted emotions during the Macavity fight (X). They have a past together, which she has only recently escaped, and to Macavity she is the one that got away (X).

Demeter x Mistoffelees: They love each other and enjoy the time they spend together during Skimbleshanks' song (X).

Demeter x Munkustrap: "Cute little romance", according to Bomba (X). Demeter loves Munkustrap but thinks Macavity is hot (X). They agree that they are cute, and also prone to onstage giggle-fits together (X). Their moment together after the Macavity fight is sweet and wholesome for them (X). Lauren said that Demeter's journey involves learning to be brave and love again - it's possible she means forming new relationships within the tribe in general, or specifically loving Munkustrap (X). At one point she referred to Sillabub as their daughter, but it's not clear whether that's literal or just 'we treat her like ours' (X).

Demeter x Sillabub: Though she's new to the tribe and learning to trust/love again, 'Auntie Demmy' spends a lot of time with Sillabub and Victoria, has bonded with them, and protects them (X). Later, Lauren referred to Sillabub as Demeter's and Munkustrap's daughter (X).

Demeter x Tantomile: Best friends! (X)

Demeter x Victoria: Though she's new to the tribe and learning to trust/love again, 'Auntie Demmy' spends a lot of time with Sillabub and Victoria, has bonded with them, and protects them (X).

Grizabella x Jennyanydots: They used to have a big tap number together and Grizabella walked out on that when she left, which is why Jenny hates her (X).

Jennyanydots x kittens: She's a mother figure to every kitten in the tribe, though she isn't actually the mother to all of them (X).

Jennyanydots x Skimbleshanks: They have played up the Skimbledots (by name) (X X). They may be Tugger's parents, but whether or not, they consider him the problem child (X).

Jennyanydots x Sillabub: Sillabub is her favourite kitten (X).

Jennyanydots x Tugger: Skimble and Jenny may be Tugger's uncle and aunt (X) or parents (X), and they consider him the problem child.

Mistoffelees x Munkustrap: Paul loves Munkustrap and feels that he and Misto are close, they communicate and interact a lot (X).

Mistoffelees x Plato: Mistoffelees loves Plato's tenderness for Victoria.

Mistoffelees x Pouncival: Mistoffelees loves Pounce's energy and sees a bit of himself in him (X).

Mistoffelees x Rumpelteazer: Paul loves Rumpelteazer and the energy she brings to the tribe - the same may or may not apply to Paul's character (X).

Mistoffelees x Tugger: Zach and Paul have no qualms about using the word 'Tuggoffelees' (X, X); Tugger might 'low-key play everyone' but Mistoffelees is the one for him (X); Tugger is possibly bi but definitely queer, and loves Mistoffelees (X). Mistoffelees loves his moments with Tugger (X).

Mistoffelees x Victoria: They are close, but not siblings (X).

Mungojerrie x Rumpelteazer: May be adopted into the tribe - though this might be a joke. Even if we take it seriously, no word so far on whether this means they're related to each other or if they just bonded over being outsiders in the tribe. Kelly also refers to Max as her 'work husband', which suggests that they consider them as canonically a couple on the same level as Skimbledots.

Munkustrap x Rumpelteazer: Munk is 'too easy for her to mess with' (X).

Munkustrap x Sillabub: Sillabub may be Demeter's and Munkustrap's daughter (X).

Munkustrap x Tugger: 'Brothers for sure' (X); in fact, brothers 'for Jellicle life' (X).

Plato x Victoria: He's very tender with her, and his actor calls him 'Prince Charming' (X).

Rumpelteazer x Victoria: Both actors are playfully coy about the idea (X X).

Skimbleshanks x Tugger: Skimble and Jenny may be Tugger's uncle and aunt (X) or parents (X), and they consider him the problem child.

Sillabub x Victoria: Besties on and offstage (X); and, with Cassandra, they form the three Jellicle musketeers! (X)

Tugger x chorus Tugger (Bill Bailey): 'Bill Bailey' is Tugger's previous Jellicle life: he went to the Heavyside Layer because he wasn't really living his full life and came back as Tugger, who is "the outcome of true happiness and being free" (X).

Tugger x Victoria: Half joking and not really in character, but: Tugger loves her, she loves him and wants to be him (X)!

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I love how much this cast just... sends each other questions when they open their Q&A on travel days.

Or, in this case, declarations of love.

Zach Bravo's Tugger loves Victoria. Hyla Mayrose Perillo's Victoria secretly loves Tugger.

US tour 2021, 8 October 2021.

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Victoria: Jelly!

Jellylorum: Hey!

Victoria: Hey! This is my boyfriend The Rum Tum Tugger, and this is Tugger’s boyfriend Mr. Mistoffelees.

The Rum Tum Tugger: Hi.

Jellylorum: Hey! Oh. Wait, sorry. What's the situation?

Victoria: What do you mean?

Jellylorum: How does this work?

Victoria: Tugger is gay but he's straight for me and he's gay for Misto and Misto's really gay for Tugger. And I’m related to Misto, so.

The Rum Tum Tugger: It's not that complicated.

Mr. Mistoffelees: No.

Jellylorum: Oh. Yeah. Sure.

*later*

Jellylorum: The thing about youth culture is I don't understand it.