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Carbucketty

Cats returns to Korea

http://www.musicalcats.co.kr/cats.aspx

The press release is a bit off. If we count the "illegal" productions, Cats is on visit #7.... anyway:


The Broadway musical “Cats” will come to Korea for the fourth time, and the first time in four years. The musical’s world tour team will give performances for five months in four cities--Daegu from May 31 until July 1, Seoul from July 6 until Sept. 2, Gwangju from Sept. 7 until Sept. 16, and Daejeon from Sept. 22 until Oct. 7. It is part of its world tour to Asia and Europe that will last throughout the whole year.

http://english.kbs.co.kr/society/events/1444849_11777.html

Very interesting the Eurasian tour is continuing. The show was just in Taiwan: http://musicals.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=50062&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

http://mall.avatar.daum.net/avatar/iframe/i_plan.jsp?event=cats_11
Pawzxx

Ooh! Luv the new korean website...it's swanky!
Drumdraper

I'm glad the European tour is going. How many tours are currently going on? I know of the American and the European, but is the Eurasian an entirely different group?
Carbucketty

Drumdraper wrote:
I'm glad the European tour is going. How many tours are currently going on? I know of the American and the European, but is the Eurasian an entirely different group?


UK IV (UK costumes)
Dutch I (UK costumes)
US V (US costumes)
Asia Pacific RUG tour: Currently Korea's second national tour. (Aussie costumes)
Rumblepurr

Carbucketty wrote:
UK IV (UK costumes)
Dutch I (UK costumes)
US V (US costumes)
Asia Pacific RUG tour: Currently Korea's second national tour. (Aussie costumes)


Carby? Did the UK Tour go to IV now? I thought they were still going as "III"

Rumblepurr Cool
The Writer Cat.
Carbucketty

Rumblepurr wrote:
Carbucketty wrote:
UK IV (UK costumes)
Dutch I (UK costumes)
US V (US costumes)
Asia Pacific RUG tour: Currently Korea's second national tour. (Aussie costumes)


Carby? Did the UK Tour go to IV now? I thought they were still going as "III"

Rumblepurr Cool
The Writer Cat.


I have no clue. Those numbers are usually arbitrary or fan made.

There was a year break between the 2003/2004 production and the 2006/2007 shows. I just add a number when this happens. The show seems to have been recast and all.

I wish I would have saved a list of places where III played. I think I can reconstruct from the archive though.

Joop van den Ende and RUG UK seem to each have a travelling set. I also thought that there were two travelling sets at the same time in the Aussie RUG zone (Korea tour + World tour) -- unless they brought in one of the European ones or I got the dates mixed up.
Jemima57

Carbucketty wrote:
I wish I would have saved a list of places where III played. I think I can reconstruct from the archive though.


This is the last I made :
February 15th - March 8th 2003 : Plymouth
March 11th - April 5th 2003 : Manchester
April 8th - April 26th 2003 : Wolverhampton
April 29th - May 17th 2003 : Sunderland
May 20th - June 7th : Edinburgh
June 10th - June 28th 2003 : Belfast
JUly 1st - July 19th : Bradford
July 29th - August 16th 2003 : Blackpool
August 19th - August 30th 2003 : Eastbourne
September 23rd - October 11th 2003 : Milton Keynes
October 14th - November 1st 2003 : Birmingham
November 4th - November 22nd 2003 : Woking
November 25th - December 13th 2003 : Stoke on Trent
December 16th 2003 - January 3rd 2004 : Oxford
January 20th - February 7th 2004 : Aberdeen
February 10th - February 28th 2004 : Glasgow
March 2nd - March 20th 2004 : Nottingham
March 22nd - April 3rd 2004 : Leicester
April 13th - May 8th 2004 : Southampton
May 11th - May 29th 2004 : Bristol
June 1st - June 19th : Canterburry
June 22nd - July 10th 2004 : Norwich
July 20th - July 31rd : Edinburgh
August 30th 2004 - September 11th 2004 : Manchester
September 14th 2004 - September 30th 2004 : Liverpool
October 6th 2004 - November ?? 2004 : Lisboa (Portugal)
November 19th 2004 - December 4th 2004 : Wimbledon
Carbucketty

Jemima57 wrote:

This is the last I made


Ee! Thanks!
*asterix*

Carbucketty wrote:
Jemima57 wrote:
This is the last I made
Ee! Thanks!

*giggles* aww, that's cute Razz
Carbucketty


Seoul 94



South Africa / World Tour

I uploaded some pictures from the old Korean Production and the ZA tour.
Carbucketty

Add Thailand to the list:

Quote:

Waverley Leader (Australia)

November 14, 2006 Tuesday
WGV Edition

SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 5

LENGTH: 168 words

HEADLINE: Spring in her step, but now for the miaow

BODY:


A CHAMPION Glen Waverley dancer will have to sharpen her singing skills quickly for a role in one of the world's best-known musicals.

Emily Keane, 18, has a role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats tour of Asia even though she has never sung professionally.

''It was my first vocal audition and I have to sing a few lines but I'm mainly in the chorus,'' Keane said.

''I'm hoping this will be my break. I guess this is my dream but I didn't think it would have happened so fast.''

But the talented teenager, who recently won the Royal South Street Academy's Most Graceful Girl calisthenics award in Ballarat, will have no trouble with the dancing.

Emily will play Cassandra, the Siamese cat, in the hit musical about a group of felines living in a junkyard.

The musical first hit London's West End in 1981 and since then has played in more than 250 cities across the world.

Emily will spend three weeks rehearsing in Sydney before Christmas, then jet off for a 16-month tour of Taiwan, Thailand, Korea and China on December 27.

LOAD-DATE: November 15, 2006
Lady Jemima

I feel a bit ridiculous asking this, but can someone explain "World Tours" and Euro/Asian tours to me? How does this work? Do they sing in English? Is Troika in charge of it?

For instance, I recently saw on a *eherm* not-so-legal website that someone had a Brazil recording for sale, but oddly enough, they listed the current US cast as the performers.

Explanations?
Carbucketty

Lady Jemima wrote:
I feel a bit ridiculous asking this, but can someone explain "World Tours" and Euro/Asian tours to me? How does this work? Do they sing in English? Is Troika in charge of it?

For instance, I recently saw on a *eherm* not-so-legal website that someone had a Brazil recording for sale, but oddly enough, they listed the current US cast as the performers.

Explanations?


The "World Tour" is put on by the Asia-Africa-Pacific branch of the Really Useful Group. (Based in Australia.) It originally opened in Pretoria, South Africa in 2002. It went to Pretroia, Cape Town, Lebenon, Shanghai, Beijing, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, etc... When someone left the cast, replacements were usually made with Australian actors.

After the China visit was cancelled due to SARS, it disbanded for a while and then reformed. This time it travelled to Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Finland, Geece, Qatar, and a few more Asian locales. More Australians replaced South Africans on the cast. In the meantime, a seperate Korean tour production was staged--the cast was mostly Australian. It's all in English. Sometime a local is brought in to fill one of the roles--I think they usually do this with Sillabub. i.e. in Korea and Taiwan she sang a few lines of memory in the native language.

I think the Troika Cast did a show in Sao Paulo, I think or wa sit Rio? --(they've been to South America several times: Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Mexico) and that's the source of the recording.
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