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Cats Hogwarts Houses

It goes Primary House , Secondary House

Munk : Hufflepuff , Gryffindor Plato : Hufflepuff , Gryffindor Jenny : Hufflepuff , Ravenclaw Deuteronomy : Hufflepuff , Ravenclaw Jemima : Hufflepuff , Ravenclaw Etcetera : Hufflepuff , Ravenclaw

Victoria : Slytherin , Ravenclaw Macavity : Slytherin, Ravenclaw Cassandra : Slytherin , Ravenclaw Bomba : Slytherin , Gryffindor Jelly : Slytherin , Gryffindor Bustopher : Slytherin , Gryffindor Gus : Slytherin , Hufflepuff Grizabella : Slytherin , Hufflepuff

Misto : Ravenclaw , Hufflepuff Demeter : Ravenclaw , Hufflepuff Coricopat : Ravenclaw , Gryffindor Tantomile : Ravenclaw , Slytherin

Mungo : Gryffindor , Slytherin Tugger : Gryffindor , Slytherin Tumble : Gryffindor , Slytherin Electra : Gryffindor , Ravenclaw Teazer : Gryffindor , Ravenclaw Skimble : Gryffindor , Ravenclaw Pouncival : Gryffindor , Hufflepuff Alonzo : Gryffindor , Hufflepuff

Stats/justifications beneath the cut!

Fun stats: ---Slytherin and Gryffindor are the most common primary houses, tied at 8 ---There are 6 primary Hufflepuffs, 4 primary Ravenclaws. I really tried to limit my Hufflepuffs, bc let’s face it, as a whole the Jellicle Cats are Hufflepuffs. ---Primary Hufflepuff, Secondary Ravenclaw is the most common type, with 4 ---Ravenclaw is the most common secondary house at 10 (goodness that’s a lot) ---But it’s the least common primary house… I wonder what that says ---Hufflepuff and Gryffindor both have 6 secondary uses, Slytherin has 4 ---There are no Hufflepuff , Slytherins, and that is the only combination not represented ---I personally think Ravenclaw, Slytherin is the most terrifying type, so Tantomile is the most dangerous cat in Cats, idk what to tell ya ---Many family* pairs ended up 'balancing out’, meaning having the two opposite houses, and thereby having all four between them. Ie Deut and Tugger, Bomba and Demeter, Bustopher and Misto, Macavity and Munk, Jenny and Jelly ---this ^ was not done on purpose, it just happened out like that while I was sorting

I based this mostly on the 1998 characterizations, personal fanon, and the Three Words for the actors  (Asparagus and Admetus as they exist in the 1998 film are omitted though, as their three words were only for Gus the theatre cat and Plato respectively)

Parameters I used while sorting: Gryffindor -- brave, chivalry, helping others, daring Stubborn, prideful, self-important, reckless Run from a fight? Never! I value my honor above all else

Hufflepuff -- Loyal, kind, accepting, hard work, patience, fair play Soft, forgotten, self-effacing, mild Run from a fight? Unless I need to protect someone I love I value harmony and my loved ones above all else

Ravenclaw -- Wise, intellectual, creativity, wit, originality Eccentric, superior, the mad scientists, isolation Run from a fight? Back down with a scathing comment I value my intelligence and my mind above all else

Slytherin -- Cunning, ambition, resourceful, perceptive, heritage Bigoted, vain, vengeful, machiavellian Run from a fight? Only to exact revenge later I value my self above all else (heritage, ambition)

(these are obv generalizations, the thing I found most helpful for the sorting was the core values.) I love seeing the variety of personalities between the same houses. We never aim to be limiting while sorting personality types!

I really want a Hogwarts AU now...someone should write it  Lmk what you think of the sorting! Agree or no? 

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after a long time of artist block, @jelliclescanandjelliclesdo freed me with this lovely idea ❤️

Munks meeting his baby brother ❤️✨

and Mac too

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We stan

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Black Friday cast sing Inevitable from The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals

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mY HEART

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Eddie Birdlace: come to a party with me, Rose, we’ll have a good time, just say yes!

Tommy Ross: come to prom with me, Carrie, it’s our senior prom, just say yes!

Dmitry: come to France with me, Anya, if we’re wrong it’s just an honest mistake, just say yes!

Courtesy of Derek “I have no ulterior motives” Klena, convincing girls he doesn’t know to go along with his dumb yet well intentioned plans since 2012

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K so I saw the tour of Anastasia last weekend and it was AWESOME and, having seen the broadway show, I have some observations :))

Lila Coogan and Jake Levy played Anya and Dmitry so much younger than christy and Derek and it was rly refreshing!

There was So. Much. Energy. Lila’s Anya is so much angrier than christy! XD

Her BELTS guys I can’t. Beautiful

She belts out “and I hear a voice whisper I’ll meet you right there in pariiiiiissss” and it hit me in a way it hadn’t before

When she says “I see flashes of fire, heard the echo of screams!” One it’s super powerful and awesome, and two she advances on Dmitry and just about belts in his face

The ensemble in St. Petersburg was on point, as were the auditioning Anastasias

They changed Learn to do It from the broadway lyrics and now Anya doesn’t have her “I’ve had it and I hate you both!” verse

Buuuut when Dmitry and Anya start dancing (after the lovably awkward Dmitry failing hard) they give conspiratorial smiles and chase Vlad around in their energetic jig and he exclaims “you monsters!”

I understand why anyas verse was cut but I did miss dmitry’s frustration and his and Vlad’s argument behind the chalkboard (he still got hit with it when Vlad turns it over)

When Anya fights the drunks she YELLS. XD Christy mostly screams but Lila has full on yelling and Dmitry looked genuinely scared for his life

Anya’s opening of the music box is a comic beat, and she does it in two quick turns then pop open as Dmitry says “it’s broken I can’t even open it” XD

Stay I Pray You was beautiful

It really HIT me when Anya and Dmitry (played younger) sang “you are all I know, you have raised me” Chills.

Sadly the train doesn’t spin, it’s still good tho

Still was soooo good

Journey to the Past was breathtaking 😍

Act II :))

When Vlad grabs Anya and dmitry’s hands at the beginning of Paris Holds the Key Dmitry is Scandalized/tm and shakes him off

Before Crossing a Bridge, Dmitry does the ‘I’m tired’ fake yawn and stretch and then SPRINTS to the hotel

The “signs” part of countess and common man was so LONG the audience was in stitches!

Biggest applause after

After the Nightmare and before crowd of thousands Anya and Dmitry say “thank you, you’re welcome” and it was the cutest awkward thing they turned away from each other like teenagers and dmitry’s voice got so high!

Quartet at the ballet was amazing!! Also biggest applause for the ballet dancers

When Dmitry says “woah better knock on wood!” He knocks on his head

Anya SCREAMS at Vlad and Dmitry

Due to blocking probably and acting, Anya picks up the doll “what is this?!?...I don’t WANT it!!” And /flings/ it halfway across the stage at Dmitry

She’s also hardcore yelling when the dowager comes

At the end, on the box Anya is actually taller than Dmitry (Christy is still shorter than Derek on the box) so she reaches down and kisses him and it felt so powerful for her XD

Everything was awesome, and amazing, and catch the tour if it’s coming near you!!

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Loathing Parody with Davey and Jack

I wanted to do an easier parody for once so I did loathing with Jack as Galinda and Davey as Elphie, enjoy.

Jack: to whom it may concern 

Davey: My dearest parents 

Both: there's been some confusion in the lodging house today

Davey: but of course ill watch over Les 

Jack: but of course ill lead the Newsies 

Both: because I know that's how you'd want me to respond, yes

There's been some confusion cause my selling partner is

Jack: unusually and exceedingly intelligent and altogether quite impossible to describe

Davey: a dumbass

Both: what is this feeling, so sudden and new. 

I felt the moment I laid eyes on you

Jack: my pulse is rushing

Davey: my head is reeling 

Jack: my face is flushing

Both: what is this feeling?

Fervid as a flame, does it have a name?

Yessssss

Loathing 

Unadulterated loathing 

Jack: for your smarts

Davey: your voice

Jack: your clothing 

Both: let's just say

I loath it all

Both: every little trait however small

Makes my very flesh begin to crawl 

With utter simple loathing 

There's a strange exhilarating

In such total detestation 

It's so pure! So strong!

Though I do admit it came on fast

Still I do believe that it can last

And I will be loathing loathing you my whole life long

Newsies: dear jack Kelly you are just too good, 

How do you do it we don't thing we could 

He cant sell and he's a tartar

We don't mean to show a bias

But jack Kelly you're a Martyr

Jack: Well, these things are sent to tryyyyy us

Newsies: poor jack Kelly forced to sell by 

Some one so knowitallified (know-it-all-e-fide)

We just wants to tell ya 

That we're on your side!

We share your 

Both: what is this feeling 

So sudden and new

I felt the moment 

I payed eyes on you 

My pulse is rushing 

My head is reeling 

What is this feeling?

Does it have a name?

Yes

There's a strange exhilaration

In such total detestation 

It's so pure so strong 

So strong!

Though I do admit it came on fast 

Still I do believe that it can last

And I will be loathing 

For forever loathing 

Truly deeply loathing, loathing you 

My whole life long.

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Oh my g o d XD

That's Broke (a that's rich parody from the perspective of Racetrack Higgins)

Ain't doin too good for my self folks

Im hungry, im thirsty, im poor

My wagers and bets

Have all put me in debt

Yet despite my regrets

I bet more 

I try to be lucky and yet 

The thing I want most 

I Can't Get!

Well hello! Welcome to the lodging house 

Listen 

I sell all my papers by Long island sound

I sold off my terf 

The bronx Newsies beat down

now Jack's telling me to strike, stand my ground

But honey I'se broke

Some bulls give me bruises, concussions, and sprains

And Oscar just threw all my cash down a drain

so looks like my money is gone with the rain

Well Baby I'se broke

I was snatched up by snyder 

Thrown in the refuge to rott

Oh and Oscar and Morris chipped my tooth when we fought

I get nickels from women and fellas alike

But I ran out my luck getting stuck in some strike 

Hey there Jackie I was just talking about you 

Now listen sport 

This life's too short 

To fight Pulitzer too

It may be rough 

But soon enough I'll learn to live through 

The hunger

The beatings

The refuge

The cops

With Oscar and Morris and Weasel, the bronx

And jack?

Says we can't go back

So spill some tears for me

Cause there's one thing I am

And I'll always be  

And honey yeah that's right 

That's brokeeee

That's broke

That's brooooooke

THATS BROKE

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Jack considers Davey the smartest person he’s ever met because Jack has spent his entire life surrounded with people who have the same types of knowledge as him. Every newsie knows how to read a person’s face, judge the kind of things they want to hear to sell a paper. How to pick the best thread of truth to build a lie on that’s just fantastic enough it’s believable but so much more interesting than the actual story. It’s not anything special to know all the back ways, to be able to tell in an instant who he can trust and who would lie about the important things.

Davey is something special, something new, something different because Jack hasn’t ever met anybody who’s smart in the way Davey is. Who knows so many words and how to use them right, who’s read so many books. Who can identify the styles Jack uses in his art with big fancy words like realism and impressionism while Jack only knows what they look like and not what they’re called.

But for all those same reasons, Davey would call Jack the smartest person he’s ever met. Davey has known so many people who know the same things he does. Who have read the same books, taken the same classes. And yet for all his book smarts and big words, Davey Jacobs doesn’t have a map of the city in his head. He can’t tell the difference between a fake smile and a real one, and he can’t get away with lying even when he really needs to.

And Jack can. Jack can take simple words and put them in an order that gets people on his side faster than any fancy speech Davey could write. He can pick up a pencil and tell a story and show deep emotion with a few quickly done lines. He can run through alleys and swing up fire escapes and shout a quick apology to a woman he knows by name from meeting her once, while Davey is still struggling to learn some of the newsies’ names after months of knowing them. Jack can take one look at his boys and tell who needs an extra few pennies, and even though he might not even realize it, Jack had as much basic medical knowledge as half the doctors Davey’s ever met just from trying to take care of his boys for so long. He knows how to clean and dress a cut, he’s noticed what a difference rest makes for a cold, how sometimes a day inside under extra blankets and with extra food helps almost as much as the medicine they can’t afford. And all of those things make Jack Kelly the smartest person Davey has ever known.

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Say no to This - Hamilton

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- Anastasia

A miracle would happen - last five years

Home - the wiz

I believe - Book of Mormon

One day more - les Mis

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Wait for it - Hamilton

The next ten minutes ago - Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan

Stars - mean girls

- next to normal

Santa Fe - Newsies

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Confrontation - les Mis

Maria - west side story

Finale - Newsies

the real theatre personality test is which song you hear when you see this phrase:

“nobody needs to know”

“blah blah blah”

“Petersburg”

“it’s fine”

“home”

“I believe”

“with you”

“without you”

“wait for…”

“ten minutes”

“stars”

“ALIIIIIIVE”

“Santa Fe”

“I don’t get it”

“Confrontation”

“Maria”

“Finale”

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Anyone else noticed the ridiculous number of characters with names starting with “J” that Jeremy Jordan has played?

Joel Gray (Common Change)

Joey Primo (Rock of Ages, one of the roles he covered as a swing)

Jack Kelly (Newsies)

Jamie Wellerstein (The Last Five Years)

Joey Castoro (Elementary)

J.M. Barrie (Finding Neverland)

Jimmy Collins (Smash)

Jesse (“Hitlist” in Smash and in concert)

Dr. Jim Pomatter (Waitress)

Dr. Johann Faustus (In the Light, so far only a workshop)

Obviously, not all of his characters do (Winn, Clyde, and others), but it’s kind of amazing how many “J” names he’s played.

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Oh Jeremy