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IT IS TIME!!! Demeter_cat, help me out with this!!!Okay, okay! I just remembered something VERY important and funny from demeter_cat2010's and my production of CATS. It's a little somethin' I like to call the "crazy kitty" rehearsal. That rehearsal was the one between our first weekend of shows and the second. (Deme, I know you know what I'm talking about!)
I'll tell you as much as I can remember...
Let's see...-It all started with Rum Tum Tugger. The dancers who are supposed to dance to the song weren't there, so Jellylorum and Bombalurina got up and did a little dance while we all burst out laughing in the middle of Tugger's singing. He turned around and was like: "Would you all just shut up?!"
- Then came Bustopher Jones...yes...that fateful song...The five girls singing the beginning went through with their part as normal. I sang my line "Or such an impeccable back", and the chorus followed. Well, our Bustopher opened his mouth, but instead of singing, he started talking! I think he had halfway forgotten the words and was halfway just being funny. Well, my little group started to desperately sing the lines, forgetting a few here and there, as Bustopher Jones chatted with the other Jellicles, making them all crack up in turn. Finally, he caught back up with us, BUT! Then came what I believe is the funniest thing (Or one of them) and I quote what he said: "But if I look full of gloom, then I've lunched at the tomb on cabbage, rice pudding...but I like chocolate pudding better...and mutton!"
-In Old Deuteronomy, our Pouncival (Who was a girl) was supposed to be dragged on her behind across the floor by Mungojerrie. It came to that part, and I guess either she got in the wrong position or he was going too fast, but the next thing we knew, she was flying across the floor on her back yelling: "Chris! Stop! Stop, Chris! Stop!"
-I fell on my butt about a zillion times during the Jellicle Ball.
-We ended Skimbleshanks normally, which meant it was time for Macavity. Now see, normally Jellylorum, yes, Jellylorum screams "MACAVITY!" and the cats remain quiet and scatter as Demeter yells as well. Well, on this night, the crash sounded and we all looked around, like normal. Jellylorum sniffed around and suddenly screamed the name of the cast member who played Macavity. "Jarred!" Everybody started screaming like mad and running for their lives...So funny to watch, really.
-Mistoffelees went normally, surprisingly...Maybe it didn't...I think something happened with the appearance of Old Deut, but I can't remember.
-Oh, how I love this part. Grizabella sang Memory, and we all turned to look at different times, like we always do. As she finished, our Victoria turned and looked at Old Deuteronomy as he nodded. Once again, normal. Then Victoria came and stood behind Grizabella and reached her paw out to touch her. When she was about 2 inches away from Grizabella's paw, she suddenly drew her hand back, yelled "I don't wanna touch her!", and stomped off. But we all made up for how unloved Grizabella felt, for she was soon the attention of a giant dog...er...cat pile from the whole cast.
-It wasn't in that rehearsal, but in one rehearsal, this happened: Grizabella stepped onto the platform to go to the Heavyside Lair. It was new, so we had never used it before. There were people backstage pulling on a rope that moved the platform across the top of the stage, creating the ascending illusion. We watched her start to go up, then turned around to sing: "The mystical divinity..." When we turned back around for Old Deuteronomy to start singing The Adressing of CATS, we began to all laugh REALLY hard. Grizabella was still on her way to the Heavyside Lair! The platform was moving very slowly, so...it was probably Mungojerrie...who yelled: "Go away already! We don't want you anymore!" To add to the laughter, Grizabella began to boogie on her way up...lol.
That's all I have! Can you think of anything else, Demeter_cat2010?
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