.... geez Misto, how come you get two Munk greetings
alonzo is chill about this, he's totally chill
yeet those babies it's okay they like it
Kade Wright as Munkustrap, Ibn Snell as Mistoffelees, Brian Craig Nelson and Taryn Smithson as Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer, Sammy Fossum as Alonzo, Dominic Fortunato as Pouncival, and Brendan Moran as Tumblebrutus. US tour 6, October 2022.
Stumbling in for the killing blow. Those eyes. While poor Alonzo (George Maniadis) dithers in terror in the background and everybody tells him 'it's your turn to fight this demon'.
... which went about as well as he expected.
Meanwhile Jemima and Rumpelteazer are pretty sure Munkustrap's dead actually??
Vienna revival, 21 June 2022: Snova's last cover of Admetus/Macavity (an unscheduled mid-show swing-on!), with Florian Fetterle as Munkustrap (his final performance for this production), Anastasia Bertinshaw as Jemima, and Anna Carina Buchegger as Rumpelteazer.
Filmed by @falasta and @cryptidvoidwritings; giffed with permission.
In which Munkustrap sustains a battle wound. 😔 Fortunately, the tail mysteriously grew back shortly afterward.
Alex Snova as Munkustrap and Nicholas Li as the villainous tail thief, plus Anna Carina Buchegger as Rumpelteazer, and Suzie Murphy as Jemima. Vienna revival, 8 June 2022.
what sounds do munku and rumple make when they're having sex?
Together or separately? Because that makes a difference...!
Well, not so much with Teazer. Whoever she's with, she's much the same: noisy, giggly, talks a lot during (though not as much as Jerrie). Not dirty talk in any conventional sense, mostly just babbling. And also sometimes completely irrelevant thoughts or conversations, which some partners might find exasperating (or endearing).
Munk differs a lot according to who he's with, because the dynamics are so different and he adapts himself to the needs of that particular cat (or cats—Jellicles do polyamory, of course).
With Jerrie and Teazer, though they aren't children (obviously, if we're talking about sex), they still feel like cats he's responsible for and has to care for (and manage!). So there'd be a mix of tenderness and bossyness, a 'let me take charge of this / take care of you' attitude: soft growls and pantings and a lot of purring and praise. He'd put himself in charge of finding her limits and minding them for her.
Similarly with the other young cats—though some, like Pounce, I can see getting off more on being dominated or the size difference, so that would probably drag out a deeper register in Munk's voice, more rumbles from the chest and low groans and heavy possessing breathing close against the skin. Endearments too: baby boy, kitten, sweetheart, my boy, and so on.
With cats like Bomba or Cassandra (or, to a certain extent, Alonzo) he trusts them more to set their own limits and to look after themselves and him, so he relaxes a bit more. He's still not particularly loud but the sounds he makes are higher up in his chest and throat and mouth, pleased hums and chuckles and soft long moans.
Demeter would be similar but I think he'd be more tender and gentle with her. As for Mistoffelees, depending on which version of him you've got in your head, the dynamic could be just about any of the above!
With Tugger it's either a growly half-serious struggle for dominance, or something relaxed and playful, with laughter and eye-rolls and huffs of exasperation and fondness, and snatches of converstaion because Tugger is a talker, easing gradually into deep satisfied groans toward the end (and grumbles if Tugger's being particularly obnoxious or teasing).
And then with Skimbleshanks (and sometimes Bomba) you'd get the rare version of Munk who knows how to sub... and that's another set of noises entirely. 👀
on the subject of devon and kelly. just found this little excerpt from novemeber from one of her little 'cast paparazzi' moments which i never posted, so.
munk just wants his tribe to be healthy okay? cat cannot live on mayonnaise and gummi worms alone!
(Devon McCleskey and Kelly Donah, 2021 US tour, 26/11/21)
Zach Bravo as Tugger, farewelling the audience at the end of the bows. 2021 US tour, 29 December 2021. And bonus, just before this... a little Munkuteazer, with Devon McCleskey and Elana Valastro!
Max Craven (2021 US tour Mungojerrie) gifted us with so many lovely Munk/Mungojerrie photos today... but at what cost!!
Devon McCleskey (Munkustrap) had his last show with the tour today (6 March 2022), before departing for... another show, which one of the tour members hinted at but which nobody has confirmed.
With Lauren Louis as Demeter and Kelly Donah as Rumpelteazer.
Jerrie's fine. He'll be fine once he's got some oxygen into him. Meanwhile, Munk and Teazer are totally innocent and definitely have no idea what happened...
Devon McCleskey as Munkustrap, Kelly Donah as Rumpelteazer, and Max Craven as Mungojerrie, 2021 US tour (X). Judging by the fact that Max is still in his solo outfit but Kelly isn't, I'm guessing he got faint during or shortly after their number and someone else had to swing on for Mungojerrie - but that's no reason not to turn the occasion into a silly photo with your best friends!
Mungojerrie being a good big brother and trying to help Munkustrap get Pouncival to say his lines right.
(Then he gives him a pat on the head afterward anyway. You did good, buddy. We’re proud of you.)
Moscow 2005: Ivan Ozhogin as Munkustrap, and probably Almas Dildebayev as Pouncival, Andrey Glushchenko as Mungojerrie, and Victoria Kanatkina as Rumpelteazer.