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Pouncival (Jon-Erik), Cindy & Coricopat (Billy Johnstone) April 19, 2000
2:00 PM Matinee
Story by Cindy with guest author Mary (Jazzcat38)
For this Show we had stage seats.
We really weren't planning on
seeing the matinee show, but our
friend Yanellie (Mistykitty) offered to
run by the theater and pick up
some tickets for us. So Ta Daa, here we
are New York.
Before the matinee show Yanellie
and I met up with Billy Johnstone
A/K/A MystryCAT, CoricoBWAY and
Coricopat. Before Billy arrived, we
dropped off a big bag of home
made cookies for the cast and crew.
Oh and one more thing, Billy I
know you're going to read this and I
can't help myself but 4+14=3 LOL.
Ok enough silieness I'll get on with
the show LOL.
Half an hour before the show, Yanellie
had to leave, so we said our
good-byes. I went around to the
front of the Theater to wait for Mary
to arrive.
When I got there I was shocked
when I saw the long line that
extended from the theater lobby
and down the street to the corners on
both sides of the theater. By
the time I entered the theater and was
seated there were 15 minutes to
go before the show began. I was so
excited as I always am before
a show. LOL.
As the show starts and the cast
comes on stage, I'm always amazed
at Coricopat and Tamtomile (Silvia
Aruj) and (Billy Johnstone) as to
how perfect they are together.
How do they do that? They must have
rehersed for hours to perform
so beautifully. Also I'm always amazed
at Patrick flying on the trapeze.
To me it seems very dangerous, but he
makes it look so easy.
During the Naming Of Cats we had
Coricopat (Billy Johnstone) and
Jennyanydots (Sharon Wheatley)
in front of us through most of the
song. Coricopat leaves but Jennyanydots
stay's. There were some
small children down front and
the cast had fun with them throughout
out the entire show as well, which
we found quite amusing.
Besides Coricopat (Billy Johnstone)
knowing we were at today's show,
Demeter (Celina Carvajal) was
the first to find us in the stage seats.
She was looking through this hole
in the stage scenery and spotted me.
I Looked over because I felt eyes
staring at me. When I did she smiled
and put her hand through the hole
to wave to us.
At today's show the part of RumTum
Tugger was played by Matthew
Vargo. WOW WOW WOW!! Was he excellent.
I had a chance to talk to
Matthew during intermission and
I told him how much I loved his
performance. I also told him I
was a little disappointed when I heard
Stephen was on vacation. a However
after seeing him, I have to say he
blew me away. I thought he was
very comical too. Than the time came
for Tugger to choose an audience
member to dance with, during the
'Tugger Song'. He choose a really
good one they danced really good
together. Hmmmmm I wonder if that
was fixed LOL. Matthew was a
joy to watch. He has his own style
of doing Tugger and that's what so
unique about CATS on Broadway.
Every actor/singer/dancer brings
something fresh to the show. Another
thing I love is that fans never
see the same show twice. Even
if you were to see the show twice in
the same day, as we did.
Also out of the show today was
Roger Kachel (Mungojerrie). Jonathan
Taylor was his swing. I've seen
Jonathan Taylor in the role before and
he is definitely an excellent
Mungojerrie.
Mary and I noticed that Tumblebrutus
(Patrick Mullaney), was a little
more hyper today than we're used
to seeing. I hope it wasn't because
of the cookies we delivered to
the cast before the show, LOL. Tumble
(Patrick Mullaney) and Pouncival
(Jon-Erik Goldberg) were constantly
fooling around during the whole
show, like two naughty brothers
getting into mischief.
This is the first time we've seen
James Hadley play Skimbleshanks. He
was fantastic and he has a beautiful
voice. At one point during the
show, he used a high voice to
sing a line (darn I can't remember what
line it was *grin*). But when
it came to his song he sounded a little like
Jon Paul Christensen, or so I
thought, however, the more he sang the
more I saw his own interruption
of Skimble. Again I have to say WOW!
During Gus: The Theater Cat, we
saw Jennyanydots (Sharon Wheatley)
laying on the car trunk like she
was sound of sleep. It was so cute.
Because of the position of our
stage seats, we couldn't see what the
others were doing.
Growltiger's Last Stand was basically
the same. Than again, they're
different because of the different
cast changes. There's a little game
we play when the Siamese cats
come out. We try and figure out which
cats are where during this song
LOL.
Memory is my favorite part of the
show. Linda always sings so beautiful
and as always my eyes became a
little teary. I don't know if it was me
or what, but when the cast sang
The Addressing of Cats, I could feel
their voices piercing my whole
body WOW! What a feeling.
As Always after the show we waited
for the cast to exit the stage
door. We got autographs and photo's
from Matthew Vargo (Rum Tum
Tugger) and James Hadley (Skimbleshanks).
We also waited to say "hi'
to the rest of the cast too. We
didn't want to keep them because we
knew they had to eat dinner before
the next show. So we left, shopped
and had dinner ourselves. Thanks
everyone for a great time! We'll see
you all at the evening show!
Pouncival, Mary & Coricopat April 19, 2000
APRIL 19, 2000 8:00 PM
Story by Cindy with a guest author Mary (Jazzcat38)
At this evenings performance we
had front row seats AA #2 & 4 right
hand side facing the stage. Mary
sat in #2 right next to the ramp and I
was right next to her.
The intro music starts and after
it ends, Demeter ran out. You hear the
car and see the flashing light.
At this time it's very quite. Demeter rans
away and all of a sudden we hear
this little child laughing. It set the
whole audience off in laughter.
LOL
For some reason, the show seemed
really different this time. Must
have been that clean up rehearsal
the cast had on April 11th, with
Gillian Lynn. At least...I think
that's when it was. Everything in the The
Jellicle Cats song was so perfect
today. The dancing is so much fun to
watch. I like to watch different
cats each time I see the show. Tonight
I watched Coricopat (Billy Johnstone)
and Tantomile, (Silvia Aruj)
Ooooo Billy you danced really
good tonight such perfect moves you
make it look so easy. I did watch
some of the others But Coricopat
stood out for me tonight. Someone
told me that Coricopat doesn't do
much in the show, but hey, did
you ever watch Billy dance. Hey check
him out in the Jellicle Ball.
Ok, back to the Jellicle Ball. I love the music
here and that brings me to something
else Mary and I noticed. The
Music was some what different
too. It sounded stronger I wonder if
they had a clean up rehearsal
too LOL.
The Old Gumbie Cat song is always
so much fun to watch. Munkustrap
is so funny playing with Jennyanydots
feet and the cast when they
dress as the bugs are so cool.
There's parts in the tap dance that are
my favorite to see. It's hard
to explain. You just have to see it to
understand. Sometimes I feel like
getting up and dancing along LOL.
Don't worry, I would never put
you all through that.
The highlight of the show happened
After the Old Gumbie Cat song
ended. The Rum Tum Tugger music
played and usually Tugger comes
crashing through the trap door
in the back wall and yells. But not
tonight. The music played again
and still no Tugger. We were
wondering what happened to Tugger.
We could see the cast smiling,
while looking where Tugger usually
enters. We didn't know why but all
of a sudden Bombalurina (Marlene
Danielle) got up and started to sing
making up her own words to the
song. Her improvising was so good
that I don't think anyone noticed.
Just before the second verse Tugger
comes running on stage and picks
up the song right on cue as if nothing
had gone wrong. Again Tugger found
a good dance partner, who looked
so over come with excitement.
It looked as if she was still trying to
recover after intermission. After
the show we talked to the cast about
the Tugger mishap and they told
us that the trap door jammed and
they could hear Matthew beating
on the door and say he couldn't get
the door open. LOL. It was very
funny for us but I feel sorry for poor
Matthew I hope he's not too upset.
Bustopher Jones song was so funny
tonight. We laughed so hard at
Tumblebrutus and Pouncival rolling
around while Bustopher was singing.
Hey, watch that Alonzo. He some
times gets a little pushy LOL.
Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer song
was somewhat the same, but with
the minor fact that tonight Jonathan
Taylor was Mungojerrie again. He
did a great job at it as well.
Rumpleteazer is always just as good. The
part of the song that makes me
laugh so much is when she acts drunk,
she does it so cute. LOL.
Pekes and Pollicle had some crazy
stuff in it that we noticed. Poor
Pouncival almost got knocked over
by Munkustrap. Mistoffelees and
Skimbleshanks after picking up
their hats and boots went flying down
the ramp by us, and we thought
they were going to go crashing right
into some people sitting in row
K. They were going so fast,
whewww....They than gave their
hats to some people sitting there, and
left to go lay on the ramp, next
to us to watch Munk sing. When Misto
came and laid on the ramp he took
his tail, and flung it over the ramp.
It kind of laid in between the
ledge and some props. Mary sat there
looking at it and I told her she
better move it or his tail might get left
behind when he gets up. LOL. So
Mary took it and flung it over him and
he turned his head gave her a
cute little smile. We both giggled.
Mean-while Alonzo was doing something
similar to some people on the
other side of us. He's so funny
because he dares them to touch his tail
and when they do he gets all huffy.
Also Munkustrap didn't do the funny
accent to the phrase about the
big dog. Darn I loved that.
The Jellicle Ball was WOW!! So
exciting! The cast danced they hearts
out. We saw alot of sweat fly
tonight. I love the way Pouncival
(Jon-Erik) and Misto (Julius Sermonia)
danced together. They are so
good it just moved me. Thanks
guys. At the end of this dance, when
the cast runs to the front of
the stage Julius, was right in front of us.
You could see the sweat just pouring
off him. Julius you are an
awesome dancer.
After intermission, when the cats
come back on stage, Pouncival came
out one of the big pips, that
lead out to the front row by the ramp,
across from us. When he did this
he scared the girls, by the pipe, when
he came through the pipe. LOL.
After that, Pouncival climbs onto the
ramp and sits there for a while.
He fixes his tail all nice and neat, and
than looks at us all as if saying,
now I dare you to touch it and he sticks
his nose in the air again. We
all laughed. Alonzo and Misto came over to
us and were just sitting there
staring. We started making faces at
them. Alonzo made faces back but
Misto just kept staring. Than I
started to giggle and he actually
smiled back. LOL. Maybe he thought I
was funny. LOL. While I was staring
at the cats, Tumblebrutus came
over and rubbed his head up against
Mary. She got such a kick out of
that.
Gus The Theatre Cat was played
a little more serious than usual. The
cats sitting in the background
were being so good. They just sat there
and watch Gus as he sang.
During Growltiger, Misto polished
the floor in front of Griddlebone for
her to walk on. Munkustrap and
Misto kept playing with Munk's parrot.
When the crew went below deck,
Munk sat down, on the deck to get
some rest. When Munk started to
lay down it seemed like he forgot
that the parrot was on his shoulder
and when he looked over at it he
almost jumped out of his skin....very
funny.
On Skimbleshank's song, we noticed
that Skimble didn't use the accent
in his number, but everything
else was the same as the earlier show.
Including the naughty cats in
the back pushing each other around. But
Skimble straightened them out.
This made me think about Skimble a
bit. He seems to be a bit of an
disciplinarian to most of the cats. I
noticed this on several occasions
clapping his hands to get the kittens
back in line, like Tumblebrutus.
Macavity song performed by Demeter
(Celina Carvajal) and
Bombalurina (Marlene Danielle)
was beautifully performed. I love
Demeters voice it was as beautiful
as ever.
Macavity's fight was awesome as
always...but as I mentioned before,
it scares me when Alonzo spins
Macavity around. I mean, I know he's
the bad guy, but hey, he's just
so misunderstood. I love that evil cat.
LOL.
Mistoffelees dance was very good
tonight. I think we counted 33 turns.
Way to go Julius. All those beads
that looked like they went flying
everywhere... or where they beads,
WOW!
As for Memory, what more can I
say? Linda's beautiful voice always
makes me cry and today was no
exception.
I don't know whether it's just
me or the fact that I know that the show
will be closing soon, but every
song and dance in this show seemed to
be so overwhelming...or was it
that the cast performed so much more
beautifully tonight. The Journey
To The Heaviside Layer and The
Addressing Of Cats was done with
such a feeling that it's so
indescribable............ Go see
it, feel it, live it.
The Cast for today's show 04/19/00
Alonzo..................................
..................................Lenny Daniel
Bustopher Jones/Asparagus/Growltiger..........John
Dewar
Bombalurina.............................
.....................Marlene Danielle
Cassandra...............................
......................Melissa Rae Mahon
Coricopat...............................
.......................Billy Johnstone
Demeter.................................
.......................Celina Carvajal
Grizabella..............................
........................Linda Belgord
Jellylorum/Griddlebone..................
.................Jean Arbeiter
Jennyanydots............................
.....................Sharon Wheatley
Mistoffelees............................
.......................Julius Sermonia
Mungojerrie.............................
......................Jonathan Taylor
Munkustrap..............................
........................Jeffry Denman Old
Deuteronomy.............................
.............Jimmy Lockett
Plato/Macavity/Rumpus Cat...........................Keith
Edward Wilson
Pouncival...............................
........................Jon-Erik Goldberg
Rumpleteazer............................
............................Tesha Buss Rum Tum
Tugger..................................
............Matthew Vargo
Sillabub................................
..........................Maria Jo Ralabate
Skimbleshanks...........................
.....................James Hadley
Tantomile...............................
.........................Silvia Aruj
Tumblebrutus............................
......................Patrick Mullaney
Victoria................................
...........................Missy Lay Zimmer The
CATS Chorus..................................
........Joel Briel, Heidi Stallings, Susan
Somerville, Kurt von Schmittou
Thank you to the cast for all their
kindness they showed us
Wednesday, and to all of you who
come to our page to read. We hope
you enjoyed our report. Our next
report will be May 19 & 21st 2000
