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flannelepicurean · 9 months

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Mmm-hay, returning to this very crucial "Samurai Bravo" issue:

Jack is a little unnerved by sushi restaurants in Johnny's neck of the woods, especially when he finds out that they all serve raw salmon. He is both a little flattered and a little horrified by the whole experience of Johnny taking him to one, and the adventure ends with Jack insisting that Johnny come over so he can make him some real food.

Johnny proves to be incredibly adept with chopsticks. And he's really enthusiastic about how much he enjoys everything. And Jack feels...something? He smiles a lot.

Johnny really butchers his first, "Domo air-a-gatto," but he's sincere. And that first, crisp, "Hey. Kanpai, good buddy," makes Jack swoon a little, for reasons he does not fully understand yet.

Johnny helps with the dishes. He does a lot of dancing during the process. Mostly with his butt, but also his shoulders. Everything comes out sparkling.

At the end of the night, when they part ways, Johnny's like, "Okay, how do you feel about corndogs? 'Cause there's this place down at the beach that's got great curly fries, too..." And Jack's like, "Uh...you...want to keep doing...this?" And Johnny's like, "...Well, yeah. You just made me a crazy awesome dinner, and our first...uhhh...was a bust." [POSE] "This town's got a lot to prove," [POSE], "and I'm gonna show you a good time."

Jack has an absolute attack of the vapors, but maintains his composure. They agree to go to the beach together in the near future.

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cassandra-has-moonlit-eyes · 2 years

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I will write a little bit about Vienna Tugger, esp. for @jelliclekay so that she may survive her shitty job or at least get some distraction.

Vienna Tugger is always fun. I’ve mostly seen Hees playing the role, occasionally Snova and one time Sinisi. They are all great and fun Tuggers. The writing will be a mix of things I noticed on different nights.

Vienna has Tugger as Chorus Tugger/Young Tugger at the beginning.

He vanishes for Gumbie’s number and comes back at the beginning of his number. His entrence starts with him saying Miau which makes the audience always laugh. During his own number Tugger is flirty, sexy and fun. Also: Vienna uses the Lynne choreo so lot of hips.

At the beginning there is the lyrics in German: “Hast du gerade keine Zeit, will ich unbedingt zu dir” which translates to: “Even if you don’t have time for me now, I want to be with you”. Sometimes during this sentence he points and walks towards Alonzo. Alonzo seems so offended and just shakes his head and walks away. But Jemima follows Tugger gladly (she is usually standing next to Alonzo).

Everybody loves Tugger,’s number except maybe for Munk and Skimble, and maybe Jenny. Demeter just doesn’t really care and leaves the stage for the number. Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer are his biggest fans, Cassandra is the cat fainting, Admetus, when played by Li, always nussels his head, when Tugger leans on him. Even Alonzo joins in after a while.

Before Bomba comes on Tugger is always interacting with Jemima, usually kissing her hand or touching her chin, but when Bomba enters the stage he turns around and she has his full attention.

During the dance break Tugger doesn’t go into the audience cause of Covid, so he interacts with the others. Rumpleteazer and Mungojerrie usually. Sometimes they play his band together with Jelly, sometimes he has a battel of the bands with Misto. Oh yes Misto. Misto usuylla says his line and shoots a finger gun at Tugger, checks him out(?) and then leaves the dancing to the others.

One time he kissed Skimble during the dance break and he was kind of offended, similiar to Jelly in the 1998 movie.

The three girls screaming for Tugger are Victoria, Jemima and Electra. Electra is the one who faints (every Electra plays an amazing fingirl).

When Griz comes it’s very clear that Tugger doesn’t like her. He leaves the stage and misses Bustopher Jones. He only comes back to sing the Old Deut song. In Vienna it’s very clear to me that he really loves Old Deut. He is always so happy to see him enter the stage, gives him a short hip dance (you don’t understand, his hips are his character trade here) and helps him to sit down.

When everybody is getting ready for the play he is usually on one side, shaking his hips again and distracting Misto who doesn’t mind much thou. Misto is just happy to be there (smiley, happy, boii). Everbody needs to know that Tugger can move his hips.

In the beginning of the Pekes and Pollicels he imitates Munkustrap. Jenny is not happy about it and usually tries to stop him (Jo Jenny is really offended) and Coricopat hisses at him before he leaves. He has his two Back Pipes Solos similiar to the 1998 version. The audience always loves him.

Jelly Ball Time: Tugger is usually somewhere in the background. He has his line and shoves his ass in Rumpleteazers face (she is not complaining thou, sometimes even hugging him). Then he tends to sit with Old Deut. and watches. He is very happy with the Bomba section and checks her out. Usually afterwards, he carries her to the back and they ... mate in the background (and no I’m not reading that into that, they really do that in Vienna. I went with a person who has never seen cats and knows nothing about it and even she read it that way).

After that Bomba had enough action from Tugger and during the cuddle pile she is with Alonzo, them being one of the less PG pairings (and yes Vienna does a cuddle pile and not an orgy, sue me). Tugger is between Demeter and Munkustrap on his one side and the twins on his other side. One time he touched Demeters leg but Munk shooed him away, another time he cuddled with one of the twins, I think it was Tantomile but I’m not sure. I think he also used to cuddle with Bomba but they changed it somewhere along the way.

Second section of the Ball: When the girls dance in the background to get ready for their V formation, Rumpleteazer sometimes dances right infront of Tugger/for Tugger: Sometimes Tugger dances this section behind Electra or Tantomile before getting ready for his own section.

At the beginning of the second act he storms the stage. He usually has a small interaction with Misto, who sits in the background next to Old Deut, before lying down. Sometimes he tries to flirt with Cassandra or to clean her but she is not having it.

Bomba, again, usually lies alone or with Alonzo here.

Tugger then leaves during Gus to get ready to be a pirate.

He is usually a very fun pirate, very in love with Griddlebone and always up to no good together with Munk.

During Skimbleshanks he is mostly in the background. But when Old Deut tries to join the dance he hurts his back and Tugger helps him to straighten up again, stays at his side and gestures him to take it easy.

When Macavity comes Tugger is usually the first one to react to him and in front line during the Old Deuts kidnapping but is stunned by Macavity’s magic.

He misses the whole Macavity and the fight thou.

He then returns to sing Misto’s song. Tugger during Mr. Mistoffelees in Vienna is so funny. Don’t get me wrong, I like the Mistoffelees and Tugger ship but Vienna seems to really play him as straight (at least they try lol). During like 90% of the Mistoffelees number he is flirting with the Ladys while hyping Misto up. He flirts with Victoria, during Misto’s solo he is usually cuddeling with Electra (sometimes she is with Bill and he is alone or trying to get Cassandra’s attention). After dancing with Misto he joins Bomba and cuddles with her (one time he cuddled with her and Skimble). And the second verse: He sings the second verse to the other Cats not to the audience while Misto keeps dancing. He mainly sings the verse to Rumpleteazer and Tantomile (sometimes to Jemima), usually giving Tantomile a small dance show. She likes it, Coricopat next to her seems kind of offended.

It seems like he wants to convience the others, especially the queens, of how great Mistoffelees is by telling them all about him.

At the end he really hypes Mistoffelees up and Mistoffelees is kind of shocked and tells him to calm down and present the finale.

Vienna Tugger loves everybody but Grizabella and Macavity, he likes to annoy Munkustrap, he takes care of Old Deut and he is clearly paired with Bomba but has usually some interactions with the other queens too, especially with Rumpleteazer and Tantomile and with his fanclub (Electra likes him a lot, and Victoria and Jemima like him too). Electra and Jemima seem to admire him which usually becomes quite clear during the Mistoffelees number, but of course also during his own number. Cassandra hypes him up during his song but after that doesn’t seem to be that interested. Hardly ever he has interactions with Demeter during the ball/the cuddle pile.

Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer admire Tugger and are his biggest fans. All in all they interact regually, Rumpleteazer more than Mungojerrie.

I personally don’t see the Mistoffelees and Tugger ship in Vienna thou they do have their moments. Mistoffelees, at least to me, just doesn’t seem to be romatically interested in anybody and is mostly here for the vibes and to hype the others up. He kind of does enjoy Tugger’s number and his shenanigans thou and smiles at him a lot (but all in all he is a smily boii). Also Vienna doesn’t use the terrible bore line, but a line with a more positive connotation. Misto kind of looks offended after Tugger ruffels his hair but then he starts smiling again.

Tugger is also an audience favourite, because he is a funny and some sort of troublemaker. All in all a wholesome, fun character (like most ot them in Vienna tbh).

#cats the musical #rum tum tugger #I hardly ever focus on him which is a shame cause he is fun #haha #i have to look more at him #his hips don't lie

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