[Jemima57]

The cast of the Italia Tour has been announced !

It can be downloaded here as a pdf :
http://www.musical.it/new/CATS_locandina.pdf

AZZURRA ADINOLFI - Bombalaurina -> Bombalurina
FEDERICA BALDI - Jemima -> Jemia
GIANLUCA CIATTI - Caligola -> ?? Bill Bailey ??
ROBERTO COLOMBO - Sghemboexpress -> Skimbleshanks
SIMONE DE ROSE - Alonzo -> Alonzo
TIZIANO EDINI - Parsifal -> Pouncival
STEFANIA FRATEPIETRO - Jennytuttapois -> Jennyanydots
SILVANA ISOLANI - Cassandra -> Cassandra
ALESSANDRO LANZILLOTTI - Mr. Mistofeles/Quazo -> Quaxo/Mr Mistoffelees
ROBERTA MIOLLA - Victoria -> Victoria
FABIO MONTI - Gus/Asparagus/Gattigre -> Gus/Growltiger
ALESSANDRO NERI - Deuteronomio/Ciccio Gourmet -> Old Deuteronomy - Bustopher Jones
GIULIA OTTONELLO - Grisabella -> Grizabella
MASSIMILIANO PIRONTI - Mangojerry -> Mungojerrie
MARIA SILVIA ROLI - Zampalesta -> ?? Rumple ?
ANDREA ROSSI - Ram Tam Taggher -> Rum Tum Tugger
LAURA SAFINA - Exotica -> Exotica
LOREDANA SARTORI - Jellilora/Occhibui -> Jellylorum/Griddlebone
CHIARA VECCHI - Demetra -> Demeter
ANDREA VERZICCO - Munkostrap -> Munkustrap
GIUSEPPE VERZICCO - Macavity/Platone -> Plato/Macavity
CHIARA VINCI - Electra -> Electra

Interesting to see there is Exotica but no Etcetera ! Also, the Old Deuteronomy performer is apparently also playing Bustopher Jones !


So, I was planning to fly to Italia to see the show, but if the costumes shown in the preview are the real ones... I really won't ! There are videos on youtube, here is the link to one of them :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUbnGvf-E8M

In this video, the guy is surrounded by Bombalurina & Demeter :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAEuV0Y2z9M&feature=related

[Mungojerrie_rt]

Planet of the Ape...cat...things...

Odd that they list Growltiger and Griddlebone, yet on the site their song list left of Last Stand. It didn't have Pekes and Pollicles either.

[Belle]

Prosthetics and pompoms??? umm... no thankyou. I'm not seeing much of the Jellicle Cats in those costumes.

[Spatzthecat]

Hi

They look strange, no doubt about it.

Spatz

[Toxic]

that's not cats for me.
and no twins??????????????

[Heavylove]

Jennytuttapois? Use a good advice and never translate names... We have one or two of thoose kinds of creativity here in sweden to and its only tends to confuse youre audience when youre taking youre own names internationally.

A good writer never translates names.

[Bustephen]

[operafantomet]

Where in Italy is it playing (and when)?

[Heavylove]

The masks is qute (Cats meet star trek kinda feeling) but the rest of the costumes break off to much off that style to make me feel confortable. But I guess the costumes looks better on stage than in full daylight..

Id love to see the way the actors and dancers do theyre part while off the script so to say. I guess its part of knowing youre caracter thing but this kind of acting always makes me gaspering and woundering how much thats choreografi and how much that the actor create here and now...

Hm that building look familiar... I think Ive been there, or at least outside it...

[Atraielees]

I don't like the masks...
It makes me think too much of 'furries'...defiantly NOT Cats...ergg

[Heavylove]

Maybe why I like the masks... I just wrote a script about furries...

[operafantomet]

[Heavylove]

Its hard to be a sleepy kitten when people talk on everything but you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4KFifxJ-uA&feature=related

This one is even better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhjQZKS6ABM&feature=related

Did any one said "knowing theyre caracter here"? I think the hairy one is Grizabella but the other elude me...

I saw the "kitten" on theyre homepage and it turned out to be Jennyanydots... so I think I own her an apologyze for calling the queen a kitten... I guess I got a working explonation to both her sleepines and her costume.

[Heavylove]

I managed to track down a video off how the italian cats looked on stage and I must say theyre look surprisingly good... (skip the intervjues if you dont know italian)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WHMVMGYhrM

Makes me wounder how it is to play with such make up...