#cats mexico tour 2018

[hysterical-cats]

mexico's jemima design goes absolutely CRAZY btw

#cats the musical #cats musical #jemima cats #cats jemima #cats mexico #cats mexico tour 2013 #cats mexico tour 2018 #i think my ideal jem design is a mix between this and zurich #mexico has both jemima and sillabub which i always forget.......... #silli is the one who gets all the stuff to do which makes me wonder what jemis role was #she was probably just an ensemble character but what was she doin!!!! #id probably know this if i actually watched the mexico recording #i have it i just havent watched it #n e ways #i love how silli and jem have lots of visual similarities but also look quite different #theyre both rlly pinky and have the bib #but jem is super dark while silli is super light #its a fun contrast

[uppastthejelliclemoon]

it's Jenny's day for @the-cat-at-the-theatre-door's elder cats appreciation week!!

so, in honor of the queen herself, i decided to put together a little collection of some of my all-time favorite Jennyanydots looks!

list of jennys:

luisa shaw (london)

susie mckenna (1998)

chen luhong (china 2012)

eloise kropp (broadway revival 2016)

michelle e. carter (u.s. tour 6)

rebecca lisewski (kilworth)

cecilia arias (mexico tour 2018)

marianne schell (gothenburg 2006)

#kilworth rlly said jellydots rights and i love them for that #LOOK AT MEXICO 2018 JENNY SHE'S SO PRETTY #mexico 2018 costume + makeup designs have my entire heart and soul #like i'd give anything for a boot of that production #oldiesweek #oldies week #elder cats appreciation #jennyanydots #cats the musical #cats 1998 #cats 2016 revival #cats us tour 6 #cats china 2012 #cats mexico tour #cats kilworth house #cats gothenburg

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

I’m fascinated by the parallel of these approaches, and that Asparagus and Demeter are the only two to approach in this way. 

#CATS Musical #CATS on Tour #(Mexico Tour 2018) #Asparagus #Demeter #Bombalurina #Grizabella #Old Deuteronomy #catsedit #my posts #many thoughts about this relationship but my head is a scrambled egg #this also reminds me i have an ask in my inbox about these two #i'm also fascinated by how demeter hisses at bomba and how she chases her off - makes me think of that post floating around a while ago

[storyweaverofgondor]

Mexico Bombalurina

One of my favorite non-rep Bombas! I used a combination of the 2013 and 2018 tours as reference. I’m really proud of how she turned out!

@uppastthejelliclemoon

#cornucopiaofcats #story's blog-versary event #cats the musical #Cats Mexico Tour 2013 2018 #mexico bombalurina #cats the musical fanart #Cats non-replica #cats non-replica fanart #cats the musical fandom #bombalurina fanart #bombalurina #cats mexico fanart

[ultimate-nonreplica-contest]

The bracket for Round 1 is Determined!

(I know some are cut off, sorry)

#cats non replica #cats the musical #cats opera Populaire #cats Gothenburg #cats Thunerseespiele #cats tecklenburg #cats Italian tour 2009 #cats Mexico #cats il sistina 2022 #cats New Zealand 2019 #cats kilworth house #cats warsaw #cats chorzów 2022 #cats Helsinki 1986 #cats Ostrava 2018 #cats Toby’s dinner theater

[carlandrea]

Weird goth Mistoffelees weird goth Mistoffelees

[ID: a painting of Mr. Mistoffelees from the 2018 Mexico tour. He has a very large fluffy wig, a face painted white, with dark makeup around his eyes to mimic a tuxedo cat pattern and white eyeliner. The light is blue, making him appear to glow, and his head is tilted to the side with a smile.

His eyes—one of two liberties taken with the photo—are white cat eyes, and bright white dots float around his shoulders. End ID]

#cats the musical #mr. mistoffelees #fun fact the photo I based this on is my profile pic on ao3 #my art

[lozeyart]

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📌 What was Cats 2019’s biggest mistake, in your opinion? (OTHER than 'bad cgi’) If you don’t think it made any notable mistakes, what’s your favorite thing about it?

I guess I could say how the music itself was absolutely butchered. Because Tom Hooper had them sing live (if I remember correctly), and sing how they wanted, and then the orchestra played later, going off of how the actors sang, and it just didn't match up AT ALL. I'd also say the absolute DESTRUCTION of Bustopher Jones's and Jennyanydots's characters. I HATE what that movie did to them. I could go on ALL fuckin' day about how their numbers were ruined and everything. If I had ONE positive about the movie, it was Skimbleshanks's number and thats it.

🧵 What’s your favorite production and why?

Based off of clips/bootlegs I've seen, I'd say the Vienna Revival production. It was one of the first productions to make me fall absolutely head first in LOVE with Cats. And I just absolutely love the way the songs sound in German. I bought their CD, and I still listen to it a lot! And I love most of the makeup designs from that production too, give or take a couple of them.

Going based off of design alone, if you know me you'll know what I'll say, but Mexico tour 2018/2019. Absolutely the best. In love with most all of those looks.

❤️ What’s your favorite romantical ship?

Taking out the obvious one (Tuggoffelees) and I'm going straight for Pouncoffelees! I ADORE!! THAT SHIP!!! SOMUCH!!!

Also a fan of Tugger/Bomba and Munk/Alonzo/Demeter (or just Munk/Demeter or Munk/Alonzo)

#cats #lozeyasktag

[junkyard-gifs]

How do you define a non-replica?

So, a replica is a production that's licensed by RUG (= Really Useful Group = ALW's company) to perform CATS with full official regalia: that is, they are allowed to use Gillian Lynne's choreo and Napier's designs and so on, but they are also obliged to follow the official rules for whatever a current official production is meant to do.

However. 'Current' here means 'current at the time the licence was issued'.

Shiki (Japan) is replica in that it's fully licensed from RUG. But since they started in 1983 and have followed their own design path since then (with occasional external influences from more Western productions), they are actually more different from more modern replica productions than some modern non-replicas.

Similarly (though more recently), the Oasis production got its licence just before the UK and US revivals, and that licence is apparently still current, so it preserves some pre-revival performance traditions (and is, so far, immune to the new rules about makeup that came in with the new international and asia tours).

Other replica productions of the 80s and 90s (like OG Vienna, Amsterdam/Paris, Zurich/Euro, Hamburg) also developed their own traditions - and the Australasian traditions (starting in the late 1990s) persisted until the 2014 asia tour.

And that's a pertinent example: the australasian productions were not a continual production, so they had to renew their license for each 'season' (2014, 2015, 2017, 2020, 2022, etc). So they reflect the vagaries of ALW's revival trends, even while their production company (and often a lot of their cast) stay the same.

A non-replica, otoh, may be influenced by the traditional/replica productions, but they might get into trouble if their designs and choreo are too recognisable. For example, the 2013 and 2018 mexico revivals were a) based on the original Latin American productions in the 1990s - some of the cast and production team returned to lead the designs - and b) in the case of 2018, they were adapted to include elements of hte Broadway revival.

The end result was something that's much more recongisable as an extra-saturated version of Gillian/Napier's production, but. Though I don't know the terms of their contract. I know that the fact that they had that much of the original production gave them less freedom in terms of their contract, and that the 2018 production was obliged to close down in preparation for the release of teh 2019 film.

I would say that's symptomatic of ALW/RUG's increasing pedantic control over the appearance of The Brand of CATS and resistance to having any alternative versiosn around, but. That attitude isn't really new. According to some conversations I've had with old CATS alumni, 'omg ur doing ur own thing??? STOP THAT RIGHT NOW!!!' was basically the reason that the Hamburg production (1986–2001) was closed down.

and RUG's insistence on THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE PRODUCTION comes in waves: most of the original productions and their various traditions were shut down in the late 90s and early 00s, and then, after regional US productions started to burgeon in the late 00s and on until the revivals, they cracked down on non-replicas again in the wake of the European and Broadway revivals.

tl;dr the definition of non-replica is about licensing and degree of freedom/control, with originality as a secondary consideration.

#anonymous #performance history #non-replica productions #andrew lloyd webber

[skimblyshanks]

Coricopat + Sillabub

Mexico Tour 2018 (1-3)

Mexico 2013 (4)

#corijem #sillapat #sillabub #coricopat #cats mexico 2013 #cats mexico 2018 #cats mexico tour 2018 #cats the musical #cats musical

[catsnonreplica]

Mexico 2013 / Mexico Tour 2018

The Mexico 2013 production had brand new designs for the cats and included some variations to the show itself. The Growltiger segment was included, but omitted the Siamese as enemies, instead ending it after the lover’s duet. Many of the costumes for the cats were much more vibrant than the usual ones.

The Mexico 2018 Tour was nearly the same as the 2013 production, with both having been produced by Gerardo Quiroz. Some costumes were changed slightly.

The 2013 production ran from May 10th 2013 to December 30th 2014, while the 2018 tour ran from October 24th 2018 to December 22nd 2019.

#cats the musical #mexico 2013 #mexico tour 2018 #Newsflash asshole! I've been queued the entire goddamn time!

[strawberry-jellicle]

Catching the bucket of gay!!!

Cats Mexico Tour 2018

Carlos Hampshire as Alonzo

Ricardo Carillo as Mistoffelees

#cats mexico #mister mistoffelees #mr mistoffelees #alonzo cats #jellicle gifs #cats musical #cats the musical

[theimpossiblescheme]

Juan Carlos Casasola as Gus the Theatre Cat and Naidelyn Navarrete as Jellylorum, Mexico tour 2018

#As Sillabub and Jemima are having a great time next to them :D #cats the musical #cats mexico #gus the theatre cat #jellylorum #sillabub #jemima

[uppastthejelliclemoon]

✨the queens✨

#WHEN THEY WHEN #i IMMEDIATELY thought of the mexico 2018 photo when i saw michelle post the queens photo #like!!!!!!! #when they're in costume and smiling?????? #i cry????? #they deserve the world????? #cats the musical #cats us tour 6 #cats mexico tour

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

Anonymous asked: My Top Five Production Makeup Designs  - Part 3/5

Mexico Tour (2013 - 2014 & 2018 - 2019)

#CATS Musical #CATS on Tour #(Mexico Tour 2013) #(Mexico Tour 2018) #makeuptop5 #catsedit #my posts

[sillybub]

Since ur talking about it, which production do you like most in terms of makeup?

OHOHOHOHHOHOHO okay okay in terms of MAKEUP (excluding wigs and unitards), HANDS DOWN MEXICO 2018.

Look at these bold lines and stripes!!!

Not to mention they do NOT skimp on the queens either!!

Bold colors!!!! Full cat face for everyone!!!!

I LOVE how colorful the makeup is!! Pinks and reds and yellows and oranges and fjsjdjsjs it looks so fun and stylish!!!!!!

Some of my other favorite looks have come out US Tour 4 as well (although I adore the Broadway looks in general fjsjfjsen)

I think it looks very cool. Like, these are some cats who KNOW they're better than me.

#wigs and unitards are a whole other case though #the mexico MAKEUP is my favorite #but overall fjsjdjjs i super enjoy the original broadway #and also hamburg uwu #and the shiki unitards are GOOD SHIT 👌👌

[bombateazer]

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!

#cats the musical #cats musical #catsproductionsappreciationmonth