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| Roller Boy |
CAts wig SpottingWhile working last week, I was going through the dressing rooms and spotted a munkstrap wig on one of the Cirque Du Soleil preformers' wig heads.I was like. O.O "is that what I think it is?" so I peaked. It was made of a really stiff fur-like hair, and was really well cared for. Inside the wig cap (which was made of stiff nude mesh) on a piece of white fabric tape written in blue sharpie marker (slightly sweat smudged) was the name David B. (???) I was wondering, what production this wig may be from and who wore it? I asked the performer, and she said she had no idea, that it was a Christmas gift from another performer from Vegas who knew she was a BIG fan of cats. I wanted to ask some of the Carps who worked in the London show, but the two I did ask had no knowledge of costumes. She sadly took the wig home before I could snap some photos of it. (she had only brought it in to show some visiting tour performers) It had very little white and was very dark in tones all around. It felt similar in texture to Idiosylph's Gumby cat wig, (which I think she told me was US tour?) |
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| Carbucketty |
Re: CAts wig SpottingDavid Burt, early 80's. I think he replaced Shankley.Check: http://www.catsmusical.com/casts/ |
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| Belle |
No Way, David Burt played Munkustrap? LOL! If anyone has seen the DVD of Boy George's "Taboo", David plays Derek and Petal, the transvestite drug dealer! He's a fantastic actor, but I can NOT imagine him as Munkustrap... Really, he's great. But so not the sort of actor you'd expect to have been in Cats. | ||
| Roller Boy |
could it be a swing wig? Mehaps a tour wig? | ||
| Carbucketty |
Well, it could be anything... The cast list database is missing bits here and there. But, assuming I haven't missed any David B's it's likely Munkustrap. In the cast lists the majority of names missing from the major productions are those who did not stay with the cast for any period of time. The early London wigs were a bit different. I'll look to see if I have any pics, but I don't remember what I have anymore from that time period. 1983 is one of those in-between years for Souvenir Brochures. They stopped updating the main and went to the insert-updating method. With the exception of Griz and perhaps some of those weird non-standard productions, most Cats wigs should have been made out of yak hair. That's why it feels the same as Idio's tour wig. |
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| Roller Boy |
ah where are you Scooby Doo? Wouldn't it be awesome to solve this groovy mystery? I think it could have been Yak hair. It certainly wasn't synthetic, it had TOO much texture. |