@theimpossiblescheme asked: My Top Five Gus the Theatre Cats
Joachim Kemmer
Rory Campbell
Yngve Gasoy Romdal
Christopher Gurr
Lucius Wolter
Runners Up: Stephen Hanan, Toshihide Mura (村 俊英), Philippe Ermelier, John Anker Bow, Hal Fowler, Richard Poole, Wim Van Den Driessche, Gene Scheer, and Ian Jon Bourg
(Note this excludes film/video Guses as well as CD only Guses)
So happy for him that he got to play Munkustrap so close to the ending of the Vienna revival. I’m going to miss him (and the entire production) so much!
let me present the lyrics to ‘Memory’ if the Vienna version was the original version and it was rewritten for english. look at me, a bilingual doing bilingual things 2nite
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Moonlight, come look up at the moonlight, come see memory’s kingdom, on the moonlit pathway. And when you there, learn to see what happiness is, then a new life will begin
Dreams gone, all the memories in moonlight. I think on them smiling, days of youth and beauty. I must have known then, where happiness really came from, and then one day it was gone
Long-burned life-dreams, reality fleeting, smoke surrounded, freezing. Nighttime’s ending, so fast and sweeping, its darkened curtain lifting
Hopeful, after all I’m still hopeful, that I won’t just die out here, like a flame in the wind. When the dark lifts, this night will be a new memory, and a new day will begin.
(Jemima)
Sunlight shining through green leaflets wrought with life’s true meaning. Night’s cold shoulder and its memory fleeting fades in sunlight’s clarity
(Grizabella)
Feel me, come and lay your paws on me,
Take these memories from me,
Free me from their torment.
Come, just touch me. You’ll understand what happiness means.
its the 25th anniversary of Tanz der Vampire. Here is the Krolockstrap plushie that @fleece-and-feltical-catsats made for me, based on Steve Barton's characters in both Tanz and Cats as Graf Von Krolock and Munkustrap.
*PLEASE do not post without Attribution. Thank you!
In a crazy twist of events, got to see Riccardo Sinsi perform Mistoffelees TWICE this weekend! He is, of course, an incredibly expressive Misto and throws himself into the role 200%.
Since I was sitting right in the center at this show I get the Stare Down during Naming of Cats and once again is he a Hissy Boy! You starting staring at me first, Riccardo!
(Also I adore the Vienna Makeup but Sinisi looks particularly gorgeous in his)
Perfect view of Beautiful Aulerstrap on the Car Boot. That man goes alllllll the way down to practically kneeling HOW!!
Dominick Hees once again Gives His All as Tugger (he only gets more and more feral as the week goes on and it is a delight). During his solo during Alt Deuteronimus he goes *up* instead of down and his voice is particularly tender. Auler holds the High Note So Long and So Sweetly. Again just the sweet relationship between these too-Aulerstrap tilting his head when he hears Tugger and shushing Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer so he can focus on Tugger being Serious for Once--!
Munkustrap's Pekes and Pollicles Holds My Heart. Aulerstrap's finger wiggles as he frantically beckons them to Bark Louder!!
Watching Sinisi softly blow out that Spolight and watching the Stars roll back as well 🥺🥺 (Tugger thinks this is the most Amazing thing he has ever seen)
Raffish crew my Abused, Drunk Darlings.
An absolute honor to see Barbara Obermeier perform Grizabella one more time -- both renditions of "Memory" brought the house down. Just the most exquisite voice. Her Grizabella is worn down my life and experience, and she brings great pathos but also Hope to this role. Loved seeing her and her well deserved ovation.
Tommie Luyben being a Delight as Carbucketty and Jo Lucy as Jenny!
This was Meghan Peploe-Williams Last Show and she was very emotional during the curtain call. I've been able to see her several times and my *God* is she good!! Definitely a stand out dancer and a delight to watch as a Cat. Obviously this show meant a great deal to her even in the short time she was part of this cast and everyone was very sweet with her at the closing.
The audience was absolutely on *fire* for this show. Would not stop applauding during the finale--standing ovation all the way until the music stopped (I was so hoping the kitties would come back out but nope)
So magical to sit down to watch this show after assuming in April I would Never See It Again. Still riding that incredible high.
(This was also the show when I did a Stage Door Reconnaissance and discovered how lovely the cast is when meeting fans.)
Probably more I'm forgetting but I'll add more as I remember. Beautiful, unforgettable night.
Diane Bauer recently released her finished album of the closing night of CATS Vienna...All of it makes me emotional but have some Aulerstrap hearts because💔💔💔💔