[OldDeuteronomy]

What is your Favorite version of Mungo & Rumple?

[OldDeuteronomy]

for those who have done polls on here sorry if this looks weird this was my first attempt at one on this forum

[Roller Boy]

I like London better than broadway, but My fav is Japan. THey look so cute with their neck scarves and tiger outfits.

Og course German with the VERY CUTE pink bow on Teaser is really cute too.

[Swan]

London.
I've always hated clowns and puppets.

Swan

[Jordan]

I never saw it with M & R as clowns but with the same music as on the OLC recording. I prefer that arrangement.

[Rumpleteazer4760]

I voted London because I like Jerrie and Teazer as real cats, not puppets, and I also love them with Cockney accents, which they don't have in the US for obvious reasons.

[MsJellicle]

I voted London...but there needs to be a little distinction from the video/London version and the OLC version...which was a jazzy style. I really like the jazzy style best-- better than the video version. Then I like the video (or rather the most used version in the productions around the world today). Although Timothy Scott did a good job singing the song in the original Broadway version, I don't like it as much. Still, I wish I could have seen it just to see what it was like, you know?

~MsJ

[MrsJemimaMistoffelees]

I don't like either of those versions. If I could direct CATS, I would always go with the video version.

Veel Liefs,
Jemima

[Kragey]

I actually prefer the Japanese version; their voices are so great! But I love both the London and Broadway versions for separate reasons: the London Mungojerrie/Rumpleteazer have incredible characterization, whereas the Broadway version of the song was sung by Timothy Scott, woah my gawd.

[abbeycat]

did anyone hear the last Uk tour version? NO, NO, NO!!! it was all kinds of wrong! but just for the record i love the old jazz version. and the reprise the tribe sung 'we could not have sworn, but we know it was both!'

[Nemi]

I love that older, London jazz version of the song. But favourite version? I loved the US Tour version when Bryce Bermingham and Pamela Rainey sang it.

Can't say with the Video version though, dispite how I live the voices in it... it's cut quite short...

I wish I had means to hear the German and Japanese versions.

[Clairvectra]

London is the best of course, that is the original. Id just like to add i hate the Broadway Cast recording of Cats it makes my skin crawl..!!

[Spanish_Rumple]

I can't really vote because I've only seen the video version and our Spanish cast, both of them I like a lot!! I wish I had means to see the other versions!

[WeeblCat]

London. I hate pretty much everything about the OBC.

[Belle]

[JemiBoe1981]

I prefer the London version, but I like both arrangements. I like the tune of the Broadway better, but I hate the way it was presented.

[RainbowJude]

I like the video version, which was also the version in the show when I saw it, best.

Later days
David

[JellicleCatMew]

To me,the video version is 100 x better than the jazzy version.I hated the jazzy version-it's so bland and unexciting to me.

[Kotenok_gaff]

where was version like on dvd? in london?

[littlgriz]

[Eponine Poe]

I like the movie version the best, just because. I don't know why. i just like it. And puppets must DIE, DIE, DIE.

[RainyCrystal]

London, yep. I really do not like the version on the OBC recording, although I really love Timothy Scott's singing.

~Sissi

[QuaxoCoricopat]

I voted Broadway, just because it's unusual compared to the rest of the world, and I think it could be really friggin' funny and cute if done right (I'm an amature choreographer, I'm always getting ideas...).

Imagine it like this: Bustopher gets introduced and then they decide to entertain him. Mistoffelees/Quaxo comes forward, the stage goes dim, and he begins to introduce Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer, who appear out of a pile of junk, having blended in until this point. Insert cute dance much like London version here (but more marionette like), with the thieves gradually slipping from Mistoffelees' control. Fastforward to the end, with "It was Mungojerrie......." then Rumpelteazer butts in with the "AND Rumpelteazer!!" Then the duo go "And there's nuffin at all to be done about that!" Cue Chaos. Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer, free of Mistoffelees' control run amok, and steal Bustopher's spoon. The others try in vain to stop them, but using feats of acrobatics and just plain sneakiness, the two manage to squirm away. Finally Mistoffelees calls out to them, and with a puff of smoke (and use of a trap door) the duo disappear, but they still have Bustopher's spoon...

I think it'd be funny anyway...

[Alonza0]

I picked London, though I love to hear Mistoffelees sing (especially Timothy Scott!), Mungo and Rumple are more cute as real charries. Clowns scare some people, which would not be good if someone suddenly got up and ran out because of their clown fear, or didn't like the musical because of the clowns. Plus, it confuses some of the audience. Plus, people love the real non-junk characters of Mungo and Rumple. They're cute and silly and funny, whereas the junk ones are just wierd.
However, I would, under NO CIRCUMSTANCES use the jazzy song. I HATE HATE HATE that! It doesn't at all suit Mungo and Rumple's playful personality like the other, Broadway and movie version. It also makes the song drag on. Don't like it, no sir, would never use it.

[JellicleCatMew]

I agree with you 100%,Alonzo0...the tune for the jazzy version does drag on and on.It's not exciting like the video version is.I have a CATS CD with the jazzy version of M&R,and I always skip ahead to the next song when the jazzy version plays.

[i'm_back]

I've never seen the London or Broadway Version.
I have seen the video and a US tour.
In both Mungojerrie and Rumpleteezer sang and danced thier song, which I liked a lot.
I don't think it would be as entertaining to watch puppets as it is to see people actually singing and dancing really good at the same time.

[Rumpelteazer2006]

Definitely the one where they actually sing it themselves as a duet, like on the DVD. It's so much cuter! I saw the US tour version when I was really young, and that song is one of the few that I remember because I loved watching them dance together. Our local theatre is doing CATS (I audition in a week...eek!), and I'm soooo hoping they DON'T do the version where Misto sings it. The description on the audition form said their characters focus more on dance than vocals, but they do have some vocals. Not sure what that means, exactly.

[Etcetera Kitten]

Interesting question...

I definately prefer the DVD version of the song, because it fits the naughty personnality of the burglar cats better.

But I've never seen the dance to the old jazzy version, so I cannot compare. But the DVd dance is awesome. BUT when it comes to Broadway, I just don't like how they were shown as clowns. Their costume was too huge and plain, I can guess they weren't doing too many acrobaties lol.

[Rumpelteazer2006]

Eww, is the jazzy version the one that sounds like a weird chant in unison? I've heard one on some sort of compilation CD that just made me want to cry. Don't do that to my song!

[Jemima57]

If the vote is between OLC and OBC, I prefer the OLC when they sing by themselves.

But out of that... I can't say which version - the jazzy or the current one, I prefer. Both are interesting. Even if I'm more used to the current song as it's the one I've heard most (seen it live, in the video, and heard it in most recordings), I also love the jazzy version. It gives another feeling about Mungo and Rumple. It makes me think at gangsters from the 1920s... funny.

[Toscata]

I would defiantly say London, partly because I have seen the London production live and also because I find the other version less interesting.