#firefrorefiddle

[badlydrawndrawnings]

it's firefrorefiddle, the fiend of the fell!

a ghost of a fictional cat that roams the junkyard that is of fame theatre cat's self describe grandest creation and what made history, at least in the 1998 version

plus a little doodle of what i think firefrorefiddle would look like as an actual cat (not gus).

(hard to tell, but his tail is block by his leg.)

#cats musical #cats the musical #cats 1998 #gus the theatre cat #firefrorefiddle #firefrorefiddle the fiend of the fell #badlydrawndrawning art #traditional art #pencil drawing #character design #gus the theater cat #firefrorefiddle be wearing two jackets/coats because it looks like it's the case #why is he the only cat to wear clothes/has a complete outfit

[dhr-fics]

Author: Quin Firefrorefiddle (firefrorefiddle)

Agape (6KB - One Shot - PG-13) D/Hr "celebrate" Valentine's Day in a post-war world.

Almost a Farewell (4KB - One Shot - G) “I thought you said you would never leave me.”

A Case Of… Well, We Really Don’t Want to Know (4KB - One Shot - PG-13) The dream he had that night was truly disturbing.

The Inevitable (4KB - One Shot - G) She had thought speaking her piece would be the hard part, but once she had started, it flowed well enough.

Ironically (4KB - One Shot - PG-13) Ironically, I was distracted because I was thinking of Draco.

Love Note (4KB - One Shot - G) I had wanted to say this in person, but it seems that I will be unable to.

My Own (16KB - One Shot - G) Gryffindors have their courage, and Slytherins their pride. Malfoys don't mix with S.P.E.W. but do mix with Blindfolds. Never underestimate the determination of the unloved to be loved. A series of vignettes, D/Hr.

Not Important or Groundbreaking (4KB - One Shot - PG) "I have more willpower than you do, we both know that."

Nothing at All (4KB - One Shot - G) What good was courage with nothing to aim for?

Quills and Investigation (4KB - One Shot - PG) She had lost her favorite quill.

Resignation (4KB - One Shot - PG) I wish I could say it. I wish I could just walk up and say it to his face.

Revenge of the Dragon and Lion (6KB - One Shot - PG-13) Sequel to The My Own Series. Draco and Harry join forces.

Silk Scarves, Charming or Charmed? (4KB - One Shot - R) It was another day in the life of the Master of Malfoy Manor.

A Soft Goodbye (4KB - One Shot - PG) I will never see you anymore.

Talk What You Please of Future Spring (8KB - One Shot - PG) An answer to a challenge. Draco crochets and several other unusual events occur during the Christmas season at Hogwarts.

Verisimilitude (4KB - One Shot - PG) Wartime casualties force Draco to rearrange his expected life. Deirdre means "sad one" and Lethia means "forgetfulness".

#author: Quin Firefrorefiddle #author: firefrorefiddle #published: 2004

[certifiedwerewolf]

FINALLY managed to spot Act 2 Tugger, he pops up in the rear of the stage for like eleven seconds during Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat, just long enough to have a very brief exchange with Cassandra before fucking off again

#tugger what are you doing #also i have no idea who was portraying firefrorefiddle but one of my contenders is john partridge #just because as near as i can tell EVERYONE ELSE was on that stage #even skimble who was SUPPOSED TO BE waiting for his song #(there is a point where you can see skimble tiptoe onto one of the backdrops and he's already in his fancy vest #given the things they said during the making of interviews i think literally everyone who could get away with it found a way to be onstage #apparently john mills was some kind of acting legend and they just wanted to share the stage with him) #so my reasoning is that whoever wasn't there was firefrorefiddle #could be wrong though #could also just look it up #nope looked it up and couldn't find anything #anyway it's just a theory #(a game- /bricked)

[dididems]

But his greatest creation, as he loves to tell

was Firefrorefiddle, the Fiend of the Fell…

Drawn for Elder Cats Appreciation Week! It’s Gus writing the amazing story of Firefrorefiddle 🤍

#gus the theatre cat #oldiesweek #cats 1998 #cats the musical fanart #I hc he loved to write before he developed his palsy #and he was devastated when he couldn’t write or dance as well anymore #asparagus #dididems-art

[ratherchaseamouse]

✍️🧠🎯

✍️ If you had total creative control over a production of Cats, what would you change and why?

It is my dream to direct a regional production of Cats, so I’ve thought about this a lot. I would have more levels on the set so actors aren’t limited to the floor, I’d completely rechoreograph the Macavity fight and pick up the tempo of the track, just because I don’t like the pacing of it in the current version. I’d put more sequins and stones on the costumes, just because it’s fun and why is Mistoffelees the only one who gets to be sparkly? And I’d make sure the makeup stays very catlike, particularly for the women, because it really seems like in recent years the women’s makeup has devolved into “normal full face with a black nose”. Oh yeah and I’d keep Pekes and Pollicles in act 1, but he’d still be played by Gus for the laughs, then in act 2 we’d have the 1998 style Gus ending, with Firefrorefiddle bowing to him. It always makes me cry.

🧠 Share a headcanon/theory about the show that you like!

M+R being Skimbleshanks’s kids is just such a sweet headcanon and I love it so much. There’s a particular piece of art (I forget by whom but if I remember I’ll credit them) where Rumpleteazer is leapfrogging over Skimbleshanks and it’s so cute.

Found it!

🎯 What's a common headcanon/theory/interpretation that you don't subscribe to?

I don’t like Alonzostrap, just because I see Munkustrap as much more mature than him. I kinda don’t get why people ship them?

Now that I think about it, I don’t really like any mlm ships with Alonzo just because he’s the token straight in my mind.

#blue’s thoughts #cats the musical #asks #absolutehumandisaster

[uppastthejelliclemoon]

thinking abt Jellylorum and Asparagus introducing Tumblebrutus and Pouncival to Gus for the first time, and Gus just beams as Pounce starts bouncing around him, and he feels a gentle little tug on his fur, and he looks down to see Tumblebrutus looking up at him with shy eyes, and the little kitten quietly asks him about his plays, and for a split second, Gus sees his own son, curious and grinning brightly, and he very nearly starts crying as he pulls Tumble against him and begins telling him about Firefrorefiddle.

#oh gus loves his boys so so dearly #i have so many thoughts abt gus being the best grandpa #OH and when he meets cori and tanto??? #gus spoils tanto like crazy he loves his princess sm and tanto adores her grandpa #gus loves his son and his daughters-in-law and his grandkittens more than anything #gus the theater cat #jellylorum #asparagus jr #tumblebrutus #pouncival #asparalorum

[daimonclub]

T.S. Eliot poetic quotes

T.S. Eliot poetic quotes T.S. Eliot poetic quotes, aphorisms, sentences, definitions, criticisms and ideas that have a great poetic and literary meaning chosen from his various works. We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. T.S. Eliot First Priest: But again, is it war or peace? Messenger: Peace, but not the kiss of peace. T.S. Eliot Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation. T.S. Eliot April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. T.S. Eliot No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job.... Poetry.. remains one person talking to another.... no poet can write a poem of amplitude unless he is the master of the prosaic. T.S. Eliot When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes. T.S. Eliot The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes. T.S. Eliot We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee! T.S. Eliot In the uncertain hour before the morning Near the ending of interminable night At the recurrent end of the unending After the dark dove with the flickering tongue Had passed below the horizon of his homing. T.S. Eliot And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling, Undisciplined squads of emotion. T.S. Eliot The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason. T.S. Eliot The man who returns will have to meet The boy who left. T.S. Eliot These modern productions are all very well, But there's nothing to equal, from what I hear tell, That moment of mystery When I made history As Firefrorefiddle, the Fiend of the Fell. T.S. Eliot There are several symptoms Which must occur together, and to a marked degree, To qualify a patient for my sanatorium: And one of them is an honest mind. That is one of the causes of their suffering. T.S. Eliot In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings. T.S. Eliot Ash on an old man's sleeve Is all the ash the burnt roses leave. Dust in the air suspended Marks the place where a story ended. Dust inbreathed was a house - The wall, the wainscot and the mouse The death of hope and despair, This is the death of air. T.S. Eliot Unreal city, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. T.S. Eliot Keeping time, Keeping the rhythm in their dancing As in their living in the living seasons The time of the seasons and the constellations The time of milking and the time of harvest The time of the coupling of man and woman And that of beasts. Feet rising and falling. Eating and drinking. Dung and death. T.S. Eliot Let these words answer For what is done, not to be done again May the judgement not be too heavy upon us T.S. Eliot In life there is not time to grieve long But this, this is out of life, this is out of time, An instant eternity of evil and wrong. T.S. Eliot The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way - The Church can sleep and feed at once. T.S. Eliot Wavering between the profit and the loss In this brief transit where the dreams cross The dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying. T.S. Eliot And what the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot poetic aphorisms Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante, Had a bad cold, nevertheless Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe, With a wicked pack of cards. T.S. Eliot He is every bit as sane as you or I, He sees the world as clearly as you or I see it, It is only that he has seen a great deal more than that. T.S. Eliot Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget. T.S. Eliot You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl. - Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Od' und leer das Meer. T.S. Eliot Sudden in a shaft of sunlight Even while the dust moves There rises the hidden laughter Of children in the foliage Quick now, here, now, always - Ridiculous the waste sad time Stretching before and after. T.S. Eliot We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account. T.S. Eliot We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! T.S. Eliot I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare. T.S. Eliot Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third. T.S. Eliot And Shakespeare himself takes liberties which only his genius justifies; liberties which Dante, with an equal genius, does not take. To pass on to posterity one’s own language, more highly developed, more refined, and more precise than it was before one wrote it, that is the highest possible achievement of the poet as poet. T.S. Eliot To be truly great poets it is not enough to have language and vision; it is also necessary to possess a great philosophical and/or theological system, which Shakespeare lacked and Dante did not. T.S. Eliot Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph. T.S. Eliot I gotta use words when I talk to you But if you understand or if you don't That's nothing to me and nothing to you. T.S. Eliot The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all. T.S. Eliot In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. T.S. Eliot Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful after all. T.S. Eliot I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas. T.S. Eliot Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. T.S. Eliot Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living. Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment And not the lifetime of one man only But of old stones that cannot be deciphered. T.S. Eliot A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. T.S. Eliot Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here and there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion Through the dark cold and the empty desolation, The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning. T.S. Eliot Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground. T.S. Eliot There is no end of it, the voiceless wailing, No end to the withering of withered flowers. T.S. Eliot We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account. T.S. Eliot It seems just possible that a poem might happen To a very young man: but a poem is not poetry - That is a life. T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot poetry quotes Our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves, and of our visible, sensible world. T.S. Eliot To rest in your own suffering Is evasion of suffering. We must learn to suffer more. T.S. Eliot All things become less real, man passes From unreality to unreality. T.S. Eliot The death of hope and despair, This is the death of air. T.S. Eliot My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand. T.S. Eliot Garlic and sapphires in the mud Clot the bedded axle-tree. The trilling wire in the blood Sings below inveterate scars And reconciles forgotten wars. T.S. Eliot In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth Which is already flesh, fur and faeces, Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf. T.S. Eliot There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth. T.S. Eliot When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again. T.S. Eliot Any man has to, needs to, wants to Once in a lifetime, do a girl in. T.S. Eliot Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair. T.S. Eliot It is not the "greatness," the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which the fusion takes place, that counts. T.S. Eliot When the day's hustle and bustle is done, Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun. T.S. Eliot What have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms turned upwards in an age which advances progressively backwards? T.S. Eliot I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!! T.S. Eliot Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions. T.S. Eliot As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill. T.S. Eliot The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about. T.S. Eliot In the vacant places We will build with new bricks T.S. Eliot If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless. T.S. Eliot The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions. T.S. Eliot The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word. T.S. Eliot A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall. T.S. Eliot Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult... The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning. T.S. Eliot When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience - in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes. T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot in the library Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. T. S. Eliot Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain. T.S. Eliot He knew the anguish of the marrow The ague of the skeleton; No contact possible to flesh Allayed the fever of the bone. T.S. Eliot A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are infolded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one. T. S. Eliot For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. T.S. Eliot I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates. T.S. Eliot Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. For I have known them all already, known them all: - Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; I know the voices dying with a dying fall Beneath the music from a farther room. T. S. Eliot Clear the air! clean the sky! wash the wind! take the stone from stone, take the skin from the arm, take the muscle from bone, and wash them. T.S. Eliot Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen. T.S. Eliot It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T.S. Eliot Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree In the cool of the day. T.S. Eliot I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling. T.S. Eliot I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me. T.S. Eliot Much to cast down, much to build, much to restore. T.S. Eliot Sometimes these cogitations still amaze The troubled midnight and the noon's repose. T.S. Eliot The readers of the Boston Evening Transcript Sway in the wind like a field of ripe corn. T.S. Eliot O Light Invisible, we praise Thee! Too bright for mortal vision. T.S. Eliot Speech impelled us To purify the dialect of the tribe And urge the mind to aftersight and foresight. T.S. Eliot Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech T.S. Eliot The great poet, in writing himself, writes his time. T.S. Eliot The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee! T.S. Eliot God is leaving us, God is leaving us, more pang, more pain, than birth or death. T.S. Eliot I'll convert you! Into a stew. A nice little, white little, missionary stew! T.S. Eliot Two live as one One live as two Two live as three Under the bam Under the boo Under the bamboo tree. T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot Child house To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I'm a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know. T.S. Eliot In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain. T.S. Eliot By the same author you can also read: T.S. Eliot quotes and aphorisms T.S. Eliot thoughts and reflections Aforismi e citazioni di T.S. Eliot Aprile il mese più crudele The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot Complete Poems by T.S. Eliot Selected essays by T.S. Eliot Collected poems 1909-1935 Quotes by authors Quotes by arguments Essays with quotes Thoughts Read the full article

#aphorisms #April #Dante #Eliot #God #hollow #land #love #men #poem #poems #poet #poetic #Poetry #quotes #Shakespeasre #T.S.Eliot #wast #words #writing

[which-was-which-cat]

Hi my name is Lexie and I once again made this because I hate myself

If anyone wants to know what it’s like working under a legendary veterinarian who is Dr. House for dogs but doesn’t always realize it, this is…….

My life in a nutshell

#cats the musical parody #cats the musical #Jellylorum #gus the theatre cat #firefrorefiddle #Youtube #in my defense my coworker who grew up with cats 1998 shrieked with laughter when I showed this to her #veterinary medicine

[junkyard-gifs]

Wigs from the 1998 production. Labelled “Jason / Alonzo”, “Tony / (Gus)”, and (presumably) “Veerle / Jemima”.

... wait but. Tony (Gus)? That isn’t Tony’s wig.

And did the person labelling it forget that his character is officially a different character to Gus in this production? But that isn’t Gus’ wig either...

In fact, the wig it looks most like is...

Close but no cigar. However.

Note the brackets. “Tony (Gus)” where everyone else is just “Michael Munkustrap” or “Jacob Mistoffelees”.

Because it’s one of Tony’s wigs - the one he wears as Gus, not as Asparagus.

But Tony is not Gus and this is still not Gus’ wig.

No; but it’s the wig he wears when playing Young Gus - specifically, Gus’ memory of himself as a younger cat playing Firefrorefiddle.

Which is fascinating, if you think about it. I don’t know of any other production - certainly no replica production - in which Firefrorefiddle appears. And those wigs take time to make, so it’s not a last-minute ‘oh no we don’t have time for the Growltiger sequence, sorry Tony, just... grab a wig and be a ghost, okay?’.

This is a design just for him - and we never get to see it fully. But the cloak is reminiscent of old Gus, and the wig is reminiscent of Macavity - and we can maybe add the glowing eyes as evoking the Rumpus Cat?

Interestingly, when I first watched this version (not being very familiar with the musical but being vaguely aware that Macavity was meant to turn up at some point in the second act) I assumed this was Macavity coming in, creeping onstage while everyone was distracted. I was waiting for cats other than Gus to notice him; but he faded away.

Looking at that wig... perhaps I wasn’t so far wrong.

#1998 film #c: gus #c: asparagus #tony timberlake #s: gus the theatre cat #c: firefrorefiddle #will i ever use that tag again #probably not #look i got through the WHOLE POST #without making a joke about admetus #sorry jacob ilu #performance history #john mills

[lessthansix]

descending into all these ‘cats’ posts like

#cats #edward gorey #firefrorefiddle the fiend of the fell

[badlydrawndrawnings]

More Gus sketches. From upper left clockwise (and comments)

1998!Gus (A old and fragile cat I would trust and give gin too to hear his stories)

Gus as an actual cat (I can't draw actual cats)

Firefrorefiddle design attempt (Despite appearing for a minute or so, I LOVE Firefrorefiddle's costume! It sucks there is no true 'reference' except that one wig photo and I just...went from there)

Old Possum!Gus (I have no idea why I gave him extra lines underneath his eyes. I still like it)

#cats 1998 #cats musical #cats the musical #old possum's book of practical cats #gus the theatre cat #gus the theater cat #firefrorefiddle the fiend of the fell #firefrorefiddle #badlydrawndrawning art #traditional art #pencil drawing #rough sketch #i will likely try to draw firefrorefiddle again in the future

[noriseyebrow]

The Ghost of Firefrorefiddle

#cats 1998 #cats the musical #gus #jellylorum #mine #my gifs #beardys gifs #when who should step out but the great rumpus queue

[certifiedwerewolf]

Okay so since I successfully spotted Background Tugger during Gus the Theatre Cat, that's out for my theory for Firefrorefiddle. Current new pet theory is Plato, who could probably don the cloak and wig and burning eyes and just a few seconds to walk out for like half a minute and then get back to applying the complicated Macavity makeup

#alternately they got richard armitage to do it #i mean he was there anyway might as well put him to use

[ratherchaseamouse]

Cats Warsaw first reaction thoughts part three: Memory through Macavity fight

Memory:

- I really do love this actress’s voice, I can’t find literally any flaws in her performance

- I feel like Griz needs to look more messed up. the costumes in this are definitely grunge-influenced, so Grizabella doesn’t look particularly ratty or anything compared to anyone else. Rub some dirt on that lady!

- I feel like they’re really playing up the “old Deut and Griz have a history”. That’s alright but it tends to have weird connotations when you think about it for a while.

Moments of Happiness:

- Deuteronomy has such a rich timbre, he’s singing the hell out of this song.

- wait why did I never notice the Skimbleshanks leitmotif in the middle of this song before— what does that mean??

- when they all start singing Memory is a really beautiful moment, the staging of all the cats spread out across the two levels makes it feel like a really personal moment for everyone involved

- the entire pit deserves a raise of 1,000,000 dollars each. Particularly the principal violinist but I don’t pick favorites

Gus the Theater Cat:

- there is a sack on the ground. What is in the sack. The sack says Gus on it. What is going on, is that the growltiger costume inside the sack? Jellylorum gestures to it on the “firefrorefiddle” line but she might not have said that?

- Jellylorum is giving CEO and I am living for it

- GUS IS SO PATHETIC OH NO I LOVE HIM. His costume is fantastic, I love the big collar, honestly that paired with the long wig he kind of looks like Broadway revival Grizabella, haha.

- it’s wrong to stereotype. That being said this Gus is gay as hell.

- all the kittens gathering round listening to him!!!!!!! My heart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Growltiger’s Last Stand:

- this set!!!! I want to personally congratulate the designers and build crew because I am so impressed with all the moving parts! The boat is really transportive (no pun intended). In addition, the use of the cyc throughout the show has been really clever.

- Yknow it sucks that this number is racist because musically it’s so good—

- GRIDDLEBONE. QUEEN. Channeling Ariana Grande with that hair

- it’s really thoughtful to have translated subtitles for In Tepida Notte. I love this section once again why did the number have to be super racist :(

- who is the cat doing this narration? Normally isn’t it just the whole ensemble doing it?

- the transition back to the theater setting was flawless!

- oh my god Gus holding the costume and Jelly comforting him— I’m tearing up 😭😭😭

Skimbleshanks:

- what an entrance!!

- wow they really took the tempo up, it’s good though

- whoops I assumed that Skimble was ensemble Gus— oopsie

- loving the “human scenery”, it’s not coming off as tacky or unprofessional at all! /gen

- Skimble is proof that mullets can be professional

- the ensemble hanging off the fence is giving Matilda

- OMG THE FENCES ARW A TRAIN I’m so obsessed with everything this set pulls off

Macavity:

- damn Macavity stole Misto’s entrance. The whole kidnapping was very smooth!

- Demeter has very good movement, I’m impressed how even she’s keeping her voice while she dances

- Bombalurina… 😳

- these cats are lesbians but that’s not news

- the final chorus is giving Chicago and I’m living for it. Wow I only have two sentence structures huh.

- these singers are seriously talented.

Macavity Fight:

- I can’t see shit :/

- ugh they did the Demeter jump rope

- all the tumbling is seriously impressive!

- not a fan of the lighting, liked everything else!

- everything was really smooth

The epic conclusion in the next part!

#blue’s thoughts #cats the musical #cats warsaw #cats non replica

[uppastthejelliclemoon]

Do you have any headcanons on Gus’s acting career? What roles did He play?

"A Midsummer's Night Dream" is the first play that I can think of Gus doing, because it's the play where he met Garbo <3 and because of that, it's Gus absolute favorite role after Firefrorefiddle!

and it's why Gus' First Name is Oberon, and Garbo's First Name is Titania!!

fun fact: Pounce's First Name is Puck, and he wears the name like a badge of honor!!!

#love love love a good showmance #gus the theater cat #garbo the prima donna queen #cats the musical

[1taliart]

Crap I just remembered something

The first time I watched CATS I already thought Jellylorum was Gus' daughter. And, also the first time, for a second I thought that instead of saying "My grandest creation was Firefrorefiddle" he was going to say " My grandest creation are my children and/or my daughter" and turn around to look at Jellylorum.

I don't know why. It doesn't even rhyme. I guess the feels® had already hit me at that moment.

#cats the musical #cats musical #venting out #gus the theatre cat #jellylorum