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German Tent Tour (2010-2011)
Bombalurina, Demeter, Sillabub, Victoria
#cats the musical#cats german tent tour#bombalurina#cats demeter#jemibub#cats victoria#jemtoria#pro fiction safe
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Bombalurina performer of the day: Ines Hengl-Pirker
German Tent Tour - 12/2010
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So I recently got back into cats the musical (as in the stage and 1998 film versions, not the 2019 movie). And I have to physically put in effort to remember the chorus to my favorite song, purely because I listened to the German Version too many times, and as such the chorus that comes to mind is the German translation not the original English. The German version had no reason to slap as hard as did, and now I actively struggle to remember the original English, and I don't know whether to applaud them for making such a good version, or hate them for how much it sticks in my fucking brain. (the specific recordings that have gotten stuck in my head are from the 2002-2004 Berlin production, and the 2010-2013 German Tent Tour, especially the Tent Tour)
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Ten Books to Know Me
Rules: 10 books for people to get to know you better, or that you just really like.
Thanks to @phantomato for tagging me!
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
This one is a childhood favorite. As a child, I identified the most with Amy March’s desire to live a leisurely life filled with art and material comforts. I ended up more like the intellectual and rebellious Jo (for a while) but could never commit to real rebellion or serious commitment to a career in the humanities, because it doesn’t pay well in this day and age. I decided I’d rather dabble in intellectual and artistic pursuits from a place of material comfort, much like Amy March after her Grand Tour of Europe.
Emma by Jane Austen
I read this in middle school and found Emma extremely entertaining. This is a comfort read for me.
Claymore (manga) by Norihiro Yagi
I love art style of this comic, the way the artist draws bodies, the lesbian undertones, and the incredibly charismatic characters.
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman (first book of the His Dark Materials trilogy)
At the heart of the novel is a critique of organized religion and dogma as controlling and oppressive forces suppressing knowledge and free will. This book gave me a language, as a high schooler, to understand my own aversion the way institutions like school and religion police and shame teenage girls as we come into knowledge of ourselves as sexual beings. It reframes the loss of innocence as an empowering experience, as being handed the keys to one’s own house.
Other Selves: Philosophers on Friendship (anthology) edited by Michael Pakaluk
An anthology of writings by philosophers throughout the ages on the topic of friendship. Montagne’s essay On Friendship is my favorite. I did quite a bit of (obsessive) research on the topic over the course of my undergrad studies and wrote my undergrad dissertation on depictions of romantic friendship in contemporary German literature.
Sommerhaus, Spaeter (Summerhouse, Later) by Judith Hermann
An anthology of wistful short stories based on the author’s experience in the milieu of young artists and intelligentsia living untethered, aimless lives, drifting through tentative friendships and romantic connections in and out of Berlin in the two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall. I found it very relatable to my own experience of Berlin in the early 2010s. I was the same age as the protagonists of those stories, new in the city, half-heartedly pursuing a career in academia, wandering in and out of friend groups and various “scenes”, living with a sense of being constantly in flux.
Poems (an anthology) by Bai Juyi
9th century (Late Tang Dynasty) Chinese poet. I like his use of simple vernacular language, his storytelling, his ability to romanticize mundane details, his aesthetic descriptions of food, the seasons, and leisurely activities, his endearing and idiosyncratic love poems to various friends and lovers.
Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson
A work of political theory exploring the concept of nationalism and the historical and cultural factors that contribute to the emergence of national identities. This book had a profound impact on my worldview.
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
A magical realist novel in which reality is literally shaped by competing narratives, leading to struggles between rival storytellers to tell the most compelling story so that their version of reality becomes “real”. This idea has influenced the way I approach writing fan fiction as telling a story to bring my interpretation of “canon” into reality (and sometimes launching a little rebellion against the Word-of-God in the process). On a related note: I wrote a master’s thesis about the depiction of imagined communities in this novel and other contemporary British and German fiction. What can I say? I tend to write long papers analyzing my favorite books, as those of you who follow me because of The Charioteer would know 😅
The Charioteer by Mary Renault
Currently obsessed with it. Takes place in Britain during World War Two. The two protagonists are complex and fascinating. I find their love story deeply romantic and moving. The depiction of the small queer community is quite entertaining and endearing. The novels explores a lot of the philosophical questions that I’d obsessed over in uni so I had lots of fun revisiting those topics and reflecting on how my interpretations and views have and haven’t changed.
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The Sponsors of the Muddy Angel Run
Big events like the Muddy Angel Run rely on sponsors and partners, who support them with money, products, or knowledge and since this is an Event with purpose, the question if those sponsors or partners are suitable for the cause has to be asked. On their official website, the company states that a partner must match their target group, which I mentioned in my other blog posts, are only women. Furthermore, Muddy Angel Run states on their page that “together with their partner organizations, they are committed to sensitizing women of all ages to the topic of breast cancer, supporting and networking those affected and bringing them together through their events.” (Muddy Angel Run, 2022)
Samantha King (2012) analysed the Tenth Anniversary National Race for the Cure in Washington, D.C. which took place in 1999 and gave several examples of brand sponsorships. There were tables set up by corporations from which participants and viewers of the race could grab “free stuff”, like water bottles from different companies, National Football League key chains, and bandanas. Like nowadays, this led to many people standing around the tables and stands waiting to secure their goodies. But on a more serious and cause-related note: it was also possible to go into the Mosaic Women’s Wellness Tent where multiple hospitals, cancer clinics, health insurances, and support groups had information leaflets and people with information about their products and services. (King, 2012)
The reason why corporations see a lot of value in breast cancer as a charity is that it attracts a lot of female consumers. Companies want to be associated with breast cancer fundraising since it can build brand awareness and the reputation of the brand while securing brand loyalty and giving the product a differentiating factor. (Gwinner & Eaton, 1999; Kaiser, 2008; Kim, 2010; King, 2012)
Now, let’s look at the sponsors and partners of the Muddy Angel Run. The main sponsor is the German-based tour operator ‘schauinsland-reisen’. The event even runs under the name ‘schauinsland Muddy Angel Run’. The company is family-owned and known for quality and fairness, both for partners and customers. At the event, the company supplies the kids' area with different activities. According to Seidler et al. (2014), this is called a controlling sponsor. Since schauinsland-reisen is quite a big company, it is obvious that they want to support a charity like this but they are a good company with a good reputation and they offer a nice addition to the event by supplying the kids' track.
Another big sponsor is the health insurance ‘Mobil Krankenkasse'. They are the ‘official health partner’ of the event and offer good insurance specifically for families and active people with a big offer of prevention- and early detection-programmes and sports courses. These offers align with the purpose of the event and is a very good sponsor from which participants can benefit. (Muddy Angel Run, 2022)
Three companies sponsor products for the event. The first is Krombacher, which actually is a beer brand. But they now also promote themselves with a good isotonic drink for sporty people as a great alternative to water and other soft drinks. They even support that statement with a study and provide their isotonic drinks for the participants of the event.
The other product sponsor is Zespri Kiwifruit, which supply healthy and delicious kiwis on the day of the event. Zespri’s statement is “puts life into life”, which for this cause is an amazing sponsor and statement to have. (Beverland, 2001, p. 385)
Landpark Bio-Quelle is supposed to be “one of the best mineral waters in Germany” and are into recycling, sustainability and organic. (Muddy Angel Run , 2022) They supply water on the day of the event which, in addition to the isotonic drink sponsored by Krombacher, offers a good range for the participants.
There are several other sponsors like ‘Sport Scheck’ which is a big sports store that carries everything sport and outdoor related, and KoRo, which offers a wide variety of healthy foods, which can be a great addition to training, for example. Those aren’t main sponsors but aren’t completely off-topic.
Minor sponsors are also Laufmamalauf, which is a company that offers fitness programmes specifically for women during and after pregnancy and birth where kids come along, suitable for all fitness levels (like the event). This I think is a very nice sponsor, since this is a company, many women might not know about, and it definitely puts the information out there.
The last three sponsors, Sport Scheck, KoRo, and Laufmamalauf, are so-called minimal sponsors since they just give money to the company but are not involved further. (Seidler, et al., 2014)
Of course, the involvement of companies in events with purpose can always be criticized, but while the sponsors will make their profits and benefit from this event, I think that the event itself and its participants also benefit from them. (Selleck, 2010)
It can be summarized that the Muddy Angel Run made no controversial decisions when it comes to their sponsors and partners, and they honor their statement on their website: their partners are “carefully selected and are among the best in their industry. We focus on quality instead of quantity.” (Muddy Angel Run, 2022)
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Emma Hunter kissing a giant poster of Anique Bosch; German tent tour 2011–13.
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You know, one of these days I really have to give my photo folders a good sort - turns out collecting for this long wracks up a hefty number.
#no you don't understand i have like 3000 pictures saved from over the years#and that's just at first glance count#with me solidly starting to actually archive things maybe around 2010#they're on my old external drive#i booted it up to find more asparagus pictures and was like well...me @ past Jemi: you *tried* to label everything and sort it#key word being tried#extemporize back chat#do u understand how many german tent tour photos i have DO U
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Underappreciated Tecklenburg 2015 company members + other productions they’d performed in (Part Two)
Nils Haberstroh--Tumblebrutus, German Tent Tour 2010-2011
Shane Dickson--Swing (Rum Tum Tugger cover), German Tent Tour, 2010-2012
Eleonora Talamini--Rumpleteazer, Antwerp, 1996
Theano Makariou--Sillabub, German Tent Tour, 2011-2012
#cats the musical#cats tecklenburg#... Yeah the more I look at Tecklenburg!Tugger's makeup compared to the replica makeup... Mr. Dickson you poor poor man... XD#But he's a great Tugger with some great energy so I'm not even mad at it.
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From August 1st to August 31st we are going to be appreciating different productions of Cats!. I’ve put two on each day since I want to include as many productions as possible, this includes replica and non-replica productions. You don’t have to do both of them, you can do just one or do both (it is up to you). You can do fanart, Gifs, edits et, anything you want to do to appreciate these wonderful productions. Please spread the word!.
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August 1st - Original London production (1981 - 2002) / Budapest (1983 - present)
August 2nd - Brazil (2010) / broadway 2016 revival (2016 - 2017)
August 3rd - Mexico tour (2018 - 2019) / Mexico (2013 - 2014)
August 4th - Cats video cast (1998) / Zurich (1991 - 1993)
August 5th - Shiki cats Japan (1983 - present) / uk tour (1989 - 1990)
August 6th - Antwerp (1996) / London palladium (2014 - 2015)
August 7th - Madrid (2003 - 2005) / Tecklenburg (2015)
August 8th - German tent tour (2010 - 2013) / Oasis of the seas (2014 - present)
August 9th - Prague (2004 - 2005) / Sydney (1985 - 1987)
August 10th - Buenos Aires (1993) / Asia tour (2017 - 2018)
August 11th - Hamburg (1986 - 2001) / Oslo (1985 - 1987)
August 12th - Australasia (2007 - 2010) / China (2012 - 2014)
August 13th - Moscow (2005 - 2006) / Dutch tour (2006 - 2007)
August 14th - Operà populaire (2017) / Amsterdam (1987 - 1993)
August 15th - UK tour (2003 -2009) / Vienna revival (2019 - present)
August 16th - World tour (2001 - 2005) / Stuttgart (2001 - 2002)
August 17th - Mexico tour (1991 - 1992) / Australian Circus Tent Tour (1999 - 2001)
August 18th - Asia Tour (2014 - 2015) / South Korea (2011 - 2012)
August 19th - Toronto (1985 - 1989) / Copenhagen (2002 - 2003)
August 20th - Australia tour (1989 - 1990) / Warsaw (2004 - 2010)
August 21st - Paris (1989 - 1990) / Italian tour (2009)
August 22nd - Vienna (1983 - 1990) / South Africa (2009 - 2010)
August 23rd - South Korea (2008 - 2009) / Düsseldorf (2004 - 2005)
August 24th - German tour (2005 - 2006) / US tour 2 (1985 - 1986)
August 25th - Original broadway production (1982 - 2000) / Berlin (2002 - 2004)
August 26th - US tour 1 (1983 - 1987) / Uk tour (1993 - 1995)
August 27th - Euro tour (1994 - 1996) / US tour 6 (2019 - present)
August 28th - US tour 5 Troika (2001 - 2012) / UK/European tour (2013 - 2014)
August 29th - Paris revival (2015 - 2016) / US tour 4 (1987 - 1999)
August 30th - US tour 3 (1986 - 1988) / Australia tour (1993 - 1996)
August 31st - Australia / New Zealand Tour (2015-2016) / uk/international tour (2016 - present)
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Here’s some prompts/questions to answer if anyone needs them
1.Favourite thing about this production?
2.Favourite actor(s)?
3.Favourite costumes/makeup?
4.Favourite song performed in that particular production?
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Please use the #catsproductionsappreciationmonth so I can see any posts you’ve made and share them!
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German Tent Tour (2010)
Mistoffelees
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Bombalurina performer of the day: Emma Hunter
German Tent Tour - 12/2010 - Swing (cover Bombalurina, Cassandra, Demeter, Electra, Jennyanydots, Tantomile)
German Tent Tour - 09/2011 - Swing (cover Bombalurina, Cassandra, Demeter, Electra, Jennyanydots, Tantomile)
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CATS in Rehearsals
Photoset #1: German Tent Tour, 2010
#Cats#CatsRehearsals#Rehearsal#Rehearsals#CatsMusical#Cats Musical#CatsTheMusical#Cats the Musical#Jellicle#Jellicles#Musical#Musicals#Theatre#Dance#Dancers#Dancer
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Alan Andrews-Katz 3.4.20
What follows is my remembrance of Alan. I’ve been piecing this together over twenty four hours, as soon as I knew Alan didn’t have much longer.
A recent picture taken in Seattle.
August, 1999. My Honda Civic was packed with my worldly possessions. Twenty-one year old me lacked direction in life, so I picked a cardinal direction in which to drive. West. Until I couldn’t go west anymore. So I drove to Seattle, found a place to live and job, and figured the rest would sort itself out.
I’d never lived in a city. I decided the most economical choice was to find a roommate situation, so I responded to a few ads and met some folks. I realized that cities were full of bizarre people that I didn’t want to live with. One house already had six people living in it, but to a 21 year old that sounds kind of fun. It’s denizens were: a quiet art student, a frat boy from the midwest, a woman with OCD who was on disability who said that if she didn’t take her meds she’d wash her socks in the washer one at a time, a guy studying to be a kindergarten teacher, another who performed with the Seattle men’s choir, and a German lady. (Later on the German was swapped for a boisterous Hawaiian. No offense to Germans, but it was a step up.) At least half the people in the house seemed sort of normal and the price was right, so I went for it.
Alan, the would-be kindergarten teacher, and I became fast friends. He was 13 years my senior but we connected immediately. As we were both single, we were often not around on weekend evenings, but whenever we were home together, we watched movies together, traded books, and laughed our asses off. He got sick a lot. I mean, an abnormal amount of time. So I’d always take care of him: bring him coffee in bed (I started work late), and get him anything he needed. We bought a Christmas tree for five dollars that year, and it was the saddest Charlie Brown Christmas tree anyone had ever seen. But for our budgets - him, a teacher in training, me a canvasser for the Sierra club - it was perfect. We loved driving our roommate Roy up a wall. Roy was the midwest frat boy, and since fraternity culture was anathema to Alan and me, this was a natural bonding point for us. We all liked each other, truly: I think Roy couldn’t figure out his affinity for a punk rock girl and her gay boy pal, but he did get really mad at us once when we pointed out to him how homoerotic all the flight scenes in “Top Gun” were. How could something so masculine, so American be so….gay? Roy left the room, and Alan and I giggled our way through the rest of the movie, high as kites.
Over the course of the year we saw each others’ boyfriends come and go. He always gave great advice and boosted my confidence, something I sorely needed at the time. We trusted each other. One day in the spring I was coming home from a visit to Chicago. As I walked in the house, Alan and another man came out from the kitchen. I looked the fella up and down and said I was pleased to meet him. They said their goodbyes, and I sat Alan down to dish about his date: of course, any man either of us dated would have to be vetted by the other. Alan really liked this guy Eric, and they saw more and more of each other.
I got restless. My visit to Chicago got me thinking about moving on, as canvassing wasn’t turning out to be the glamorous job I thought it would be. I found a job in Chicago and moved in August, 2000. Alan and I hugged and cried when I left, and we promised to keep in touch. I saw him in Chicago when he flew out for an interview, and then two years later when he and Eric got married. They had a beautiful wedding in Seattle with a view of Puget Sound and Mount Rainier. I brought the guy I’d been dating for a year and a half - it was Alan’s turn to vet. When Alan and Eric were saying their vows, I heard a sniffling next to me. Andy was crying. I was pretty sure he’d get the approval.
By 2010, Eric’s writing was taking off, and they came down to do a reading in Denver. I took them on a tour of our Front Range mountains, and we stopped for lunch in Idaho Springs. Talk turned to Alan’s health. At this point, he was on peritoneal dialysis due to non-functioning kidneys, and he was blind in one eye as a side effect from an anti-viral drug. I commented that he struggled so much with his health, and seemed to get the most bizarre afflictions. “Do you know my whole story?” he asked. I was confused, no, I didn’t think so. “I’m HIV+, I have been since 1982.” I was dumbfounded. I’d had absolutely no clue. Then he said, “is it still OK if we stay in your house, now that you know?” I told him Eric could, but Alan was sleeping in a tent in the yard for asking such an idiotic question. We hugged and cried.
I started worrying about Alan all the time.
Over the next 17 years, Alan, Eric, Andy and I would see each other. Andy’s work often took him to the Pacific Northwest, and he’d always visit “The Boys” if he had time. I went up for Alan’s 50th birthday. He told me once that in the mid-1990s, he was given three months to live. “Say your goodbyes,” the doctor told him. Alan thought to himself, “I’m not dying yet,” and he didn’t. He was down to 95 pounds and had AIDS, but he simply decided not to give up. He kept living - a few years after being told to say his goodbyes, he met Eric, the love of his life. So he told us he never thought he’d see his 50th, and he was just so happy to still be here.
Andy, Alan, Eric, and I became a great foursome over the past few years, and we would reunite at least once a year for Pride, and then other times as luck would have it. Over time, we developed those hilarious in-jokes and secret languages characteristic of the best couples. Most of my friends have probed the limits of my vulgarity, and I thought I had a pretty high bar for what was offensive. Alan and Eric would regularly vault right over that bar, leaving the four of us in hysterics. We also had a constant shifting of allegiances: Eric and I would sing the “Monorail” song from The Simpsons, prompting Alan to tell us that we should get married; Alan, Andy and I would harangue Eric for doing stupid things while playing board games; the boys would gang up on me for being a girl; Andy and I would make the boys faux vomit when we commented on certain decor items in their home that appeared vaginal. We always left our visits with Alan and Eric giggling for days. In recent years, that laughter was coupled with concern. Would Alan get a kidney transplant? When would the next crisis be?
One thing I always admired about Alan was that he never complained. He was always exhausted, he had to be careful with his diet, and despite a fierce desire to work he could never work full time because he always got sidelined by illness. I’ve never met anyone with so many interests and passions: he was a voracious reader, and amazing pastry chef, he was a pharmacy tech, he would have been a teacher but he realized the pay was idiotic...the list goes on. And for so many of the years I knew him, he never complained. Insomnia from dialysis? At least we have coffee. Loss of appetite from his meds? Great weight loss program. Nausea? Well, that one wasn’t too fun, but at least I’m still alive, he'd say, and I have marijuana. And for so many other complaints, he’d always say anything was better than being dead.
I really started to worry the past few years because he started to struggle. He admitted that his life was challenging. He started doing hemo-dialysis two years ago, and this meant going 3-4 times a week, for almost half a day, for dialysis. He told me that dialysis took an equivalent toll on your body as running a marathon (to put things into meaningful perspective for his runner friend), and afterwards he usually crashed for a few hours before dinner, and then having an early night. But he still said that he’d rather be alive and dealing with all of his problems than be dead.
It sounds cliche, but that’s how I want to honor Alan. He got mad at me once for making him cry on the bus (we were texting), because I told him he was the toughest human I know. When the going gets tough, I’m going to remind myself to remember Alan. That no matter how terrible things are, they really could always be worse. When life is good, I’ll remind myself that this is what I’m living for. And if I’m really trying, I’ll top off my PollyAnna (Polly-Alan?) with a sweet smile and a witty joke.
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2022 Asia tour?
Alright, so.
a) the 2020 asia tour got cancelled in May 2021, before it could go on to its planned Taiwan leg
b) the international tour is set to resume in May 2022, in Zurich
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c) a whole bunch of former cast members headed for Taiwan today (7–8 January), saying things like 'see you again in March', and there are performance dates listed on Taiwanese ticketing websites through February and March.
This looks like a return of the Asia tour, rather than an early leg of the international tour. There's still nothing on the official Cats website, but the promo materal includes photos from the 2017 and 2020 Asia tours, it's run by GWB Entertainment (who did the Asia tours), and seems to be offering replacement dates for people who had tickets to the failed 2021 tour.
I'll be tagging any updates as '2022 asia tour', but considering it as effectively 'season 2' of the 2020 tour.
Currently suspected/confirmed cast below the cut! If you want the updates, track the post: I'll comment as I find things out or notice possibilities, as well as editing them into the post.
Leading the company: Dane Quixall, hoorah! Dane has been resident director and superswing with the international tour for years - in fact, his presence is the one thing that makes it look more like the international tour than the Asia tour, but otoh he said something about it being a 'different company' this time... Before that he was in the UK tour of 2013, and the German tent tour of 2010–13. He has always been a swing and usually a member of the creative team too, so he'll presumably be the same this time.
Returning from the 2020 Asia tour:
Rafe Watts - was Munkustrap, will presumably be Munkustrap this time too.
Xavier Pellin - ditto for Mistoffelees
Tyler Lotzof - ditto Victoria
Alice Batt - ditto Jellylorum
Hayden Baum - ditto Skimbleshanks
Ellie Nunan - ditto Jennyanydots
George Hankers - ditto Mungojerrie
Dominique Hamilton - ditto Rumpelteazer
Taylor Scanlan - ditto George / onstage swing
Anina Plescher - ditto Electra / onstage swing
Emily Casey - officially cast as Tantomile, she ended up covering Cassandra for almost half the performances due to first-cast Cass' unfortunate injuries, so she might be playing either here
Caitlin New - was a swing covering Bomba, Jenny, Tanto/Cori, and Griz. Probably the same again, unless she's been promoted to first cast for one of those roles
Kade Hughes - was Bill Bailey (cover Carbuckety) and will probably be that again, but, since Mukeni's in the cast too (who has never covered Carbuckety to my knowledge) Kade might be Carbuckety this time around.
Cast for the Taiwan leg of the 2020 Asia tour but never got to play:
Will Richardson - cast as Tugger, has formerly played that role in the 2017 Asia tour and in the Oasis production, will presumably be Tugger this time.
Ashlee Hammerin - cast as Demeter; formerly a swing in the 2017 Asia tour, covering Demeter, Bomba, Tantomile, and Rumpelteazer. Will presumably be Demeter.
Amy Everett - cast as Jemima, played Sillabub previously on the Oasis cruise.
Other productions:
Benjamin Mundy! A surprise, since it's a few years since he was in the show. He was Coricopat in London in 2014 (so this will be the first time he's performed with a non-rap Tugger 🤭). Given he covered Tugger too, he'll probably be an ensemble male role like Alonzo, Cori, or Plato/Admetus, while covering those roles and maybe Munk or Tugger; or he'll be a male swing.
Mukeni Nel - yaaaas, our beautiful Mukeni from the 2019 international tour returns to the show! Either in his former role as Bill Bailey/Tumblebrutus, or moving to Carbuckety/Pouncival. Either way, he'll presumably still cover Mistoffelees.
Emily Langham - Rumpelteazer in the 2016 UK/International tour, and cover Jellylorum - swing or creative? We have Alice Batt and Dominique Hamilton who I assume will be reprising their roles as Jelly and Teazer, so we'll see what Emily's doing.
Carly Miles - Jemima (cover Victoria) in the 2017 Asia tour - again, we already have a Jemima and a Victoria so we'll have to wait and see what role(s) she'll be taking this time.
Possibly:
Brad Little and Kerry Ellis as Deuteronomy and Grizabella: one Taiwanese site lists them, but it might just be going by last year's info. (Brad was Deut throughout the 2020 Asia tour and would have continued into Taiwan, Kerry was meant to join the cast in Taiwan.) Kerry's insta doesn't look like she's going anywhere just yet, but it's possible that a star Grizabella could join the cast later in the rehearsal period.
Stevie Hutchinson - Pouncival in the London revival - is travelling somewhere but, again, we know no more than that yet. Turns out it was Miami!
That's still only half the cast, though. The Asia tour had a cast of 24 onstage plus 5 swings, and the International tour has 22 (no Electra or George) plus usually 8 swings. So we'll see what we find out in the next few days!
Cast members whom we know not to be returning include Fletcher Dobinson (busy in London in Moulin Rouge), Jal Joshua (busy in Bring It On), Thomas Inge and his boyfriend Lloyd Davies (source: I asked Thomas), Suzie Melloy (heavily pregnant!), and, sadly for Tyler, her boyfriend Dan Partridge (he has booked himself a spontaneous trip to Sri Lanka now that she's left him all alone!). Cian Hughes and Harry Francis (Carbuckety and Mistoffelees in the 2019 international tour) are also not coming: they've commented things like 'goodbye, see you in a few months' in response to cast member announcements.
#news#2022 taiwan tour#will richardson#anina pletscher#stevie hutchinson#taylor scanlan#hayden baum#dane quixall#rafe watts#alice batt#emily casey#caitlin new#ashlee hammerin#amy everett#george hankers#emily langham
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POC who have played Bombalurina
Requested by anonymous
(Names and productions provided below)
-Marlene Danielle (1984 - 2000 - Broadway)
-Renata Vilela (2010 - Brazil Tour)
-Kaye Brown (Cover) (1991 - London)
-Femi Taylor (1981 (Cover) - London/1984 - 1985 - London/1987 - Melbourne)
-Han Ji-yeon (한지연) (2008, 2009, 2011 - South Korea)
-Elisabeth Hazel Bell (Cover) (2010 - 2013 - German Tent Tour)
-Cassie Clare (Cover) (2014 - UK Tour/2014 - Palladium)
-Ai Yuhan (艾于涵) (2012 - China/2015 - Asia Tour)
-Jacqui Boatswain (1994 - 1995 - UK Tour)
-Melissa James (2013 - UK Tour)
(Note that this set does not include all examples of POC who have played Bombalurina in the past or present - for example, it does not include individuals from Shiki CATS. It also focuses moreso on replica productions rather than non-replicas.)
#CATS Musical#CATS the Musical#Bombalurina#CATS OBC#CATS Brazil#CATS London#CATS Australia#CATS Korea#CATS on Tour#(UK/International Tour 2013 - 2014)#(Asia Tour 2015)#(UK Tour 1993)#(German Tent Tour)#CATS London Revival#CATS China#catsedit#my posts#okay i KNOW for a FACT that there is actually clear footage of Renata's bomba - I have SEEN this footage - but I could not find it#for the life of me#(and there was good bts footage too)#and i am mad about it#i'm so sorry renata please forgive me ><
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Eberhard Weber
Fluid Rustle
@ 1979 US Pressing
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Today's Rediscovery, after a bit of a hiatus, looks at an album by Eberhard Weber that is of particularly significance in the German bassist's discography. Fluid Rustle, released by ECM Records in 1979, was, in fact, one of many anomalies in Weber's discography for its unusual instrumentation (electric guitar/balalaika, vibraphone/marimba, bass/tarang, voices); but beyond that, it stands out as the album that introduced guitarist Bill Frisell to the world.
As Frisell explains in a 2001 interview that was ultimately published at All About Jazz in 2011, Bill Frisell: The ECM Years:
"Soon after I got to Belgium, in 1978," said Frisell, "I get a call from Mike Gibbs, who had a tour of England with his own big band, and his regular guitarist, Philip Catherine, wasn't able to do the tour. I had played in Mike's band at school, so I knew the music, so he called me and asked me if I could do his tour. There were a lot of British musicians in the band, like [drummer] John Marshall and [trumpeter] Kenny Wheeler and [saxophonist] Charlie Mariano. Eberhard Weber was playing bass, so I was kind of thrown in with a lot of the guys I had been listening to already.
"It was just an incredible opportunity for me to be able to play with all these guys," Frisell concluded. "So, during that tour, there was a little area every night where Mike Gibbs let Eberhard and me play some free improv, and it really felt great; it felt like we were connecting—there'd be moments where it lifted off, with just two of us playing. This was in October or something, of 1978, and Eberhard had this recording coming up with Gary Burton that was going to be Fluid Rustle. Man, I couldn't believe it; I had done a couple little recordings in Belgium, but nothing that was a big recording. That was how I met [ECM label head/producer] Manfred Eicher the first time, and I think I was so terrified of the whole thing, I didn't know what I was doing. Even traveling and staying in the hotel, I didn't know what to do; I didn't even know how you checked into a hotel or anything. And I wasn't able to get much going; I was pretty inhibited during that recording."
And while it is, indeed, true that Frisell's playing is somewhat tentative on an album of largely introspective chamber jazz that also features singers Norma Winstone and Bonnie Herman, vibraphonist/marimbaist Gary Burton and, of course, Weber, using his custom-built five-string electric double bass. Still, hearing the album when it was first released, I couldn't help but feel that this guitarist, whose name was new to me, was someone well worth watching.
How right I was. That feeling was quickly justified over the course of the next few years as Frisell—playing again with Weber on his equally impressive Later That Evening (ECM, 1984), recording and touring with ECM label mate/Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek (1983's Paths, Prints and 1984's Wayfarer, the subject of another Rediscovery column), and appearing on a blistering live set with yet another ECM artist, Norwegian bassist Arild Andersen (1982's Molde Concert—grew in leaps and bounds, even releasing his own solo debut for the label in 1983, In Line, and quickly becoming the idiosyncratic, instantly recognizable guitarist who has, in the ensuing years, become one of the most influential of his generation.
But at the time of Fluid Rustle, Frisell had yet to gain the confidence he needed to truly stand out. Still, his solo in the buoyant middle section of the title track was more than enough to suggest a new guitar hero in the making. With a dark, brooding introduction,"Fluid Rustle" also features a characteristically perfect solo from Burton, whose playing throughout the album is a revelation. Outside of his duo with pianist Chick Corea—whose ECM recordings are documented on the label's 2009 Old & New Masters Edition box set, Crystal Silence: The ECM Years 1972- 1979—Burton was, at the time, rarely heard outside of contexts with a conventional bass/drums rhythm section, making Fluid Rustle an anomaly in the vibraphonist's discography as well.
Weber had, by this time, already experimented with contexts beyond the norm—though it would be misleading to suggest any of his recordings, including his own Old & New Masters Edition box, Colours (2010), which collected the bassist's three recordings featuring his popular Colours quartet—were anything resembling conventional. Still, Weber's The Following Morning (ECM, 1976), which featured the bassist alongside Colours keyboardist Rainer Bruninghaus on a series of original compositions written for bass, piano, cello, French horn and oboe (the latter three instruments performed by members of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra), was a clear indicator of the bassist's desire to work in a variety of contexts.
Since his award-winning 1974 ECM debut, The Colours of Chloë (which also featured Van Rooyen), Weber has demonstrated a penchant for detailed composition as well as improvisational opportunities, and in particular a disposition towards long-form compositions that often took up the entire side of their original LP issues. While The Colour of Chloë's nineteen-minute "No Motion Picture" reflected Weber's interest in minimalism—and, perhaps, a similar interest in British groups like Soft Machine, whose latter-period drummer, John Marshall, would ultimately join Colours, replacing the group's original drummer, Jon Christensen—Fluid Rustle's side-long opener, "Quiet Departures," was even more episodic in nature...and broad in scope.
Burton's ethereal vibes, Frisell's volume pedal swells and Winstone and Herman's breathy, wordless vocals create a soft cushion over which Weber layer's his beautifully constructed, unusual but still singable bass lines. But that's only one part of a seventeen-minute suite that ultimately morphs, after a gentle solo from Burton, into a more oblique middle section, filled with implication as guitar, bass and voices create collective dissonances, one after the other, ultimately dissolving into silence. Then, with Frisell's strummed balalaika the driving voice (with his electric guitar overdubbed on top), Weber turns more optimistic, with Herman and Winstone delivering a lyrical theme, resolving into a marimba-driven solo opportunity for Frisell that, in its angular approach, foreshadows future successes to come before Weber, as Burton turns to vibraphone, takes a solo of his own that once again demonstrates there is no other bassist in the world that sounds like him either in tone or in the unusual way that he formulates improvisations that feel preconceived...even when they're clearly not.
The rest of the album is equally distinctive and just as appealing as it explores more abstruse yet still somehow melody-driven concerns ("A Pale Smile") and an even darker, foreboding conclusion ("Visible Thoughts"). One of Weber's most memorable albums in a relatively diminutive discography as a leader (just 14 albums in 42 years), Fluid Rustle stands out for both its unusual instrumentation and the debut, at least on an international level, of soon-to-be-major guitarist Bill Frisell.
And with its impeccable production, recorded at Ludwigsburg's Tonstudio Bauer—a regular choice for Eicher at the time, along with studios in Oslo beginning with Bendiksen Studio, followed by Talent Studios and, finally, the two Rainbow studios, the second of which the producer continues to use to this day—Fluid Rustle is an album whose largely atmospheric timbres—grounded by the deep resonance of Weber's bass— sound positively lush on the Tetra 333 listening instruments. Filled with layers of detail that are clearly defined and pristinely presented, they make Fluid Rustle another perfect choice for Rediscovery.
John Kelman (Edited)
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