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This was written for Lilo… as she puts it. She didn't know (for some odd reason unbeknownst to cat fans everywhere) the plot, or as I like to call it the synopsis of CATS. So here is a rather… long synopsis. Hopefully with no "helpful" inputs from a certain tom that we all know and love…. (just re- reading that last sentence Eugh…)
Contraire to popular belief I am able to write a serious piece of writing. This is my first attempt at a synopsis of the musical CATS. (The video version as I am poor as hell and haven't got enough money to go to London {from Australia} buy the 35 pound ticket {that's like over one hundred dollars here which I do not have…} .) Okay. Enough chatting, shall we get down to work?
DISCLAIMER: This story, (Cori – Story? You have got to be kidding me!) (Shove off) belongs to RUG, TSE and ALW. Thankyou. Enjoy….
CATS, one of the most well known of Andy Lloyd Webber's musicals is one of the biggest thrills to see (Even though I haven't seen it live.. *shoot*). The first scene/song is the overture. This is the sign that the musical is about to begin. I have been told that live it is the biggest thrill ever. So as the rustling of programs dies down, or in my case the rustling of the popcorn from the microwave, and the overture finishes the excitement begins. A body runs out on stage. A large 'truck/car' sound is heard and she flexes in fear, and then runs to a drainpipe to hide. As the first few bars are heard of Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats we see a whole lot of different cats some on stage including two very ODD (Cori – HEY!?) looking identical twins and one rather scary (if you are stuck right in front of her) looking abyssinian. One of the 'male' cats slides down the bonnet of an old car and starts the singing with 'are you blind when you're born?'. The queen who was first on stage (Demeter) sings the second and so it continues until about twenty five cats are on stage. The sing and dance telling the audience, who they were originally very shy of, what a Jellicle cat is. Until the leader, Munkustrap, stops them by saying: "There's a man over there, with a look of surprise as much as to say: well now how about that, Do I actually see with my own very eyes, a man who's not heard of a Jellicle cat? What's a Jellicle cat? What's a Jellicle Cat… What's a Jellicle Cat?" And that last line is chanted until all the cats are in a pyramid form chanting the naming of cats (This is a poem). Letting the audience know how cats have three different names. One that the family use, one that the cats themselves use when they are out and about meeting their friends and the last one that they only know and 'will never confess'. As they murmur the last few lines of the poem they begin to leave the stage.
Finally only one cat is left onstage. A beautiful pure white queen named Victoria. She dances a beautiful dance that is part of the invitation to the Jellicle ball. But has fondly been called Viccy's solo dance by Cats fanatics everywhere. She finishes her solo dance all tucked up and suddenly the music hits the ears of everyone as Quaxo wakes us up from the dream like spell that has been cast over ourselves from her dancing. He dances and sings the final part of the Jellicle ball calling all the cats back onstage. Munkustrap then explains why the cats are all there: To have a ball and see which one of their tribe will go to the mystical Heavyside layer. Or in laymans terms, pass away. (Can you see how simply divine the musical is already??)
Munkustrap then introduces us to the Gumbie Cat, or if you are watching an original cast it's Quaxo who introduces her. (Ha! Betcha didn't know that!) We learn how she is always asleep or lying in the sun. We then get told by (This is the usual group it may be different in some productions) Demeter, Bombalurina (Bombi) and Jellylorum that when the family is asleep and in bed she goes down to the basement to teach the mice that live in the house music, crocheting and tatting. We then continue into the song to hear how she thinks that the cockroaches in the household "just need employment" and how she has created a 'Beetle's Tattoo'. In which the editing to the video is absolutely (insert a horrified horrific atrociously terribly terrible word here). As the song finishes we see the Gumbie Cat (Jennyanydots is her name for those wondering) shaking paws with all the other cats.
Suddenly we hear the drum roll and electric guitar which announces the arrival of the junkyard's greatest heart attack.. oh woops.. heart throb.. eh heh heh.. hmmm… The Rum Tum Tugger, who is the equivalent of an Elvis wanna be with an ego the size of Ayers Rock and muscles the same, enters with a MIAOW. He dances round the stage singing how he only wants what he doesn't have and doesn't want what is given to him. A very curious cat, to quote the rest of the cast. He, in the video, rejects Bombi as she sings making her fall flat on her face (And I aint dissing Rosie but hell that part is funny!! Hee hee!). The Rum Tum Tugger seems to have every queen and kitten (and also a few of the males.. *shudder*) in love with his flashy moves and sharp hip gyrations. Hi ends his song with a high note (have a look at the weird things going on around the stage at this point in time. Eg. Bombi *ahemming* with that uh white cat… and Cassie with the uh.. other white cat… aww crap…) and then continues dancing around the stage for about 45 seconds before pointing over to where an elderly cat is, pulling on his mane and saying a rather rude saying that rhymes with duck you….. but we won't go into that… ;P
Enter Grizzie. The most hated of all cats played by the greatest of all actresses to ever play the part. Ah Elaine Paige. What a wonderful lady. (Cori – Get back on track.) (Oh, you're still here.) Anyway, she enters and tries to make the cats see her for what she really is, and of course they hate her. Except for the two inquisitive kittens, Jemima (Veerle Castelyn, I got a piccie of her in my diary if you wanna see) and Victoria (Phyllida Crowley Smith.. I CAN SPELL HER NAME RIGHT!!!) (Cori – Wow…) who seem to want to meet her, but they are taken away from her presence before they can by Jellylorum (Who has the best singing part in Growltiger, I may just add). Demeter sings that she is an outcast to the tribe and that no one would believe that once she was Grizabella the Glamour Cat.
As she leaves Quaxo realises that someone has arrived. A rather 'large' someone. He enters from whateva side of the stage that he enters from and we learn that Bustopher Jones, is the fattest cat weighing in at 25 pounds! Jennyanydots, Jellylorum and Bombalurina (It's probably different in the stage version but don't shoot me okay..) (Cori – That's an idea… heh heh heh) (Oh go plot someplace else.) explain that he is not only fat but a 'rich' cat and he feasts on venison and other such luxuries. Jenny seems quite infatuated with him. (Cori – Sounds like you and poor Drew nee?) (Eugh.. stop copying my finishing words.) At the end of his song he gives Jenny his red flower from his button hole. BUT…..
Suddenly the sound of crashing glass is heard. OH NO!!! (Cori – How cliché) (Buzz off) Demeter yells out the one line that she is famous for. (For the uneducated who haven't seen CATS.. I could say something very rude here but I won't... she yells out MACAVITY!!) Munkustrap makes sure that all the cats are out of the junkyard safely before he himself runs off. Then what do we hear? (Cori – She's been anticipating this moment for ages…) HEE HEE HEE HEE!!! SHHHHH!!! WHO IS IT?!?!??!?!?!? IT'S Mungo AND RUMPLE!!!! YAAAAAAAAYY!! Out pops Rumple from a er thingy (Does anyone actually know what she pops out of?) (Cori – A toaster?) (OH HA HA) giggling as she goes. She is told to 'shut up' by her partner in crime who at that present moment is not visible to the audience. (At this point my popcorn stops rustling completely as I am on the floor trying to figure out just how she manages to get her foot to stay in the air at the end part and how it gets to stay so damned high!) She motions for him to come forwards, and he to pops out of the (Cori – TOASTER!!!)…… *cough* um.. no… They thrust their bags of loot over their shoulders with one are and with the other they trace their body shape and do a little "cat burglar running away pose". They then hop of the little ledge they were originally standing on and get onto the main stage. They begin to sing their song. Their dance moves are simply divine as we see them telling how they are always stealing from their family and from other families and how when they do get caught they are running so fast that they are a blur of colour so the mistress and master of the house can't tell them apart (hence the saying: 'now which was which cat?!'). They finally get to the point where they are so loud that some of the other cats are peeping onstage to see them. They end their INCREDIBLY WONDERFULLY TERRIFICALLY SPLEDIFICAL performance with a … wait for it… wait for it… a DOUBLE cartwheel! They are the hardest things to do and then!! (There's more!!) He stands with his legs wide apart so that they are bent to the extent (hee hee… that rhymes) that Rumple can kneel with one leg on it with the other leg almost vertical and her arm straight in the air whilst holding on for dear life with the other one. All in all it is an excellent finish. Hey Lilo? If you wanna see a piccie of that… go to my piccie's sections! I think I have piccies of two different Mungo's and Rumple's doing that. Phew! As they do that last pose the rest of the tribe come out… Demeter is exceedingly annoyed that she had been tricked into thinking that they were Macavity and tells them off. Their loot bags are chucked over a large pile of rubbish and they try to escape the circle of Jellicles that have surrounded them. They run in three different directions before breaking their barrier at the back of the circle and running away. I might just point out that in the VHS two verses of their wonderful song were cut and it wasn't to the original tune of Mungo and Rumple. The original is a wonderful 20's style jazzie tune that is so much fun to sing and listen and dance (Cori – You dance like a duck…) (I never said that I was a good dancer okay!) to.
The next scene all the cats are welcoming Old Deuteronomy. No not the guy in the bible but 'The oldest cat' of the tribe. He is the leader of the tribe also and all the kits and adults love him. Whilst he is being introduced by Munkustrap and a slightly less, shall we say, overexcited Rum Tum Tugger, the rest of the cats are rolling around on the floor. Rather an interesting sight really. Anyway, when he finally shows up we hear a wonderful tenor or bass (I dunno which one) voice (Old D.) singing a terrific solo. It really is a wonderful part of the play. Especially when the whole cast sing Well of all things can it be really? No! Yes! Ho Hi! Oh my eye! My mind may be wandering but I confess! I believe it is old Deuteronomy! This part is just so wonderful it leaves me tingly all over! (Cori – To much information) Anyway. Once Old D. has arrived we get into his special 'production' that is done for him by all the cats.
The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, are proud and implacable passionate foes! Yes! It's time for the Aweful Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles together with some account of the participation of the pugs and the poms and the intervention of the great Rumpus Cat. (Yes, Lilo, that last sentence is the whole name for it…. *phew* it is a bummer to write though.) Munkustrap gets to sing this part. It is a long poem that tells of the story of the aforewritten name. He starts by telling them that dogs in general are horrible because they bark. There is a wonderful 'barking' session there in which the toms and the queens 'bark' at 'opposite' times. He then goes on to say that one day two dogs, a peke and a pollicle, happened to meet. Out pops Rumple and Mungo dressed up as dogs. Now don't ask me why you know they are them (Cori – How'd you know it was them?) *sigh* because you can see her pearls and boots and those suspended legings that she has to wear. They pop out and in general stuff up as Mungo can't get his barking order correct. We then hear about the peke. Whom as Munkustrap puts it is a 'heathen Chinese'. (A/N this is not an insult it just means that the peke is an unlearned dog. And if you think about it, no real dog is learned…. Sad really. And just to make it feel better Rumple gets VERY annoyed about his insult and dobs on him. Please also remember that cats in general dislike dogs so they aren't likely to be being peachy and creamy to them nee?) He then continues on to the male dogs who are the pollicles. We then get to hear a great song called to marching song of the pollicle dogs. Which is funny as one of them stuffs up and goes the wrong direction. Which then puts off the whole team of marching dogs. We then have a big barking session in which the pollicles and the pekes are on separate side of the stages. Munku gives a tremendous scream of NOW!!!! and they shut up. He then tells us how one cat sent them all off and on their way named to Rumpus Cat. This part of the VHS is soooooooooo funny! Especially when Munku says: "You never saw anything f-i-e-r-cer o-r- hairier. The Rumpus Cat stretches and then rubs his tummy. The rest of the cats sing: All hail and all bow to the great Rumpus Cat. And then they all congregate around Old D.
Old Deuteronomy then warns all the cats that:
Jellicle cats and dogs all must,
Pollicle dogs and cats all must,
Like undertakers,
Come to DUST!
On the last word crashing is heard. MACAVITY! Is screamed by a rather freaked out…. (Cori – Guess Who) Demeter.
The next part of the musical is a seven minutes, sometimes nine minutes long. It is a huge overture in which there are about five general parts.
PART ONE
The cats return from offstage after being freaked out by MACAVITY!!! They dance and sing telling us the main characteristics of Jellicle cats including:
Jellicle cats have moonlit eyes – Sung by Beckie Parker, Cassandra
Jellicle cats are of moderate size – Sung By Drew Varley and Jo Gibb, Rumple and Mungo.
And so on.
PART TWO
The cats start doing slow dances. Very graceful dances.
PART THREE
Out comes Bombi and about five other of the queens. They dance a 'sexy' dance and are then 'taken' (Cori – They're carried of and it is all in good taste.) (You keep telling yourself that. I saw you oggling at Tant) (Cori – HUH?!?!?!) (He he he he he) by the male cats.
PART FOUR
This has commonly been called the 'mating dance'. In which Viccy becomes a queen. Or loses her kittenhood to erm… is it Plato or is it that ugly one… no it's Plato. She dances a little by herself and then Plato er hrms… with her. The rest of them come together in a pile in the middle of the stage all with their respective partners. Mungo and Rumple, Misto and Jemi etc…
PART FIVE
We hear the beginning of the overture and then all of a sudden the cats are up in a flurry of colour. THIS IS THE BESTEST PIECE OF MUSIC EVER!!! LILO… I'LL LET YOU BORROW MY CD JUST TO HEAR THIS PART IT IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!! Then all of a sudden they all collapse.
END PART ONE OF CATS (AKA ACT ONE IS OVER)
This was written for Lilo… as she puts it. She didn't know (for some odd reason unbeknownst to cat fans everywhere) the plot, or as I like to call it the synopsis of CATS. So here is a rather… long synopsis. Hopefully with no "helpful" inputs from a certain tom that we all know and love…. (just re- reading that last sentence Eugh…)
Contraire to popular belief I am able to write a serious piece of writing. This is my first attempt at a synopsis of the musical CATS. (The video version as I am poor as hell and haven't got enough money to go to London {from Australia} buy the 35 pound ticket {that's like over one hundred dollars here which I do not have…} .) Okay. Enough chatting, shall we get down to work?
DISCLAIMER: This story, (Cori – Story? You have got to be kidding me!) (Shove off) belongs to RUG, TSE and ALW. Thankyou. Enjoy….
CATS, one of the most well known of Andy Lloyd Webber's musicals is one of the biggest thrills to see (Even though I haven't seen it live.. *shoot*). The first scene/song is the overture. This is the sign that the musical is about to begin. I have been told that live it is the biggest thrill ever. So as the rustling of programs dies down, or in my case the rustling of the popcorn from the microwave, and the overture finishes the excitement begins. A body runs out on stage. A large 'truck/car' sound is heard and she flexes in fear, and then runs to a drainpipe to hide. As the first few bars are heard of Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats we see a whole lot of different cats some on stage including two very ODD (Cori – HEY!?) looking identical twins and one rather scary (if you are stuck right in front of her) looking abyssinian. One of the 'male' cats slides down the bonnet of an old car and starts the singing with 'are you blind when you're born?'. The queen who was first on stage (Demeter) sings the second and so it continues until about twenty five cats are on stage. The sing and dance telling the audience, who they were originally very shy of, what a Jellicle cat is. Until the leader, Munkustrap, stops them by saying: "There's a man over there, with a look of surprise as much as to say: well now how about that, Do I actually see with my own very eyes, a man who's not heard of a Jellicle cat? What's a Jellicle cat? What's a Jellicle Cat… What's a Jellicle Cat?" And that last line is chanted until all the cats are in a pyramid form chanting the naming of cats (This is a poem). Letting the audience know how cats have three different names. One that the family use, one that the cats themselves use when they are out and about meeting their friends and the last one that they only know and 'will never confess'. As they murmur the last few lines of the poem they begin to leave the stage.
Finally only one cat is left onstage. A beautiful pure white queen named Victoria. She dances a beautiful dance that is part of the invitation to the Jellicle ball. But has fondly been called Viccy's solo dance by Cats fanatics everywhere. She finishes her solo dance all tucked up and suddenly the music hits the ears of everyone as Quaxo wakes us up from the dream like spell that has been cast over ourselves from her dancing. He dances and sings the final part of the Jellicle ball calling all the cats back onstage. Munkustrap then explains why the cats are all there: To have a ball and see which one of their tribe will go to the mystical Heavyside layer. Or in laymans terms, pass away. (Can you see how simply divine the musical is already??)
Munkustrap then introduces us to the Gumbie Cat, or if you are watching an original cast it's Quaxo who introduces her. (Ha! Betcha didn't know that!) We learn how she is always asleep or lying in the sun. We then get told by (This is the usual group it may be different in some productions) Demeter, Bombalurina (Bombi) and Jellylorum that when the family is asleep and in bed she goes down to the basement to teach the mice that live in the house music, crocheting and tatting. We then continue into the song to hear how she thinks that the cockroaches in the household "just need employment" and how she has created a 'Beetle's Tattoo'. In which the editing to the video is absolutely (insert a horrified horrific atrociously terribly terrible word here). As the song finishes we see the Gumbie Cat (Jennyanydots is her name for those wondering) shaking paws with all the other cats.
Suddenly we hear the drum roll and electric guitar which announces the arrival of the junkyard's greatest heart attack.. oh woops.. heart throb.. eh heh heh.. hmmm… The Rum Tum Tugger, who is the equivalent of an Elvis wanna be with an ego the size of Ayers Rock and muscles the same, enters with a MIAOW. He dances round the stage singing how he only wants what he doesn't have and doesn't want what is given to him. A very curious cat, to quote the rest of the cast. He, in the video, rejects Bombi as she sings making her fall flat on her face (And I aint dissing Rosie but hell that part is funny!! Hee hee!). The Rum Tum Tugger seems to have every queen and kitten (and also a few of the males.. *shudder*) in love with his flashy moves and sharp hip gyrations. Hi ends his song with a high note (have a look at the weird things going on around the stage at this point in time. Eg. Bombi *ahemming* with that uh white cat… and Cassie with the uh.. other white cat… aww crap…) and then continues dancing around the stage for about 45 seconds before pointing over to where an elderly cat is, pulling on his mane and saying a rather rude saying that rhymes with duck you….. but we won't go into that… ;P
Enter Grizzie. The most hated of all cats played by the greatest of all actresses to ever play the part. Ah Elaine Paige. What a wonderful lady. (Cori – Get back on track.) (Oh, you're still here.) Anyway, she enters and tries to make the cats see her for what she really is, and of course they hate her. Except for the two inquisitive kittens, Jemima (Veerle Castelyn, I got a piccie of her in my diary if you wanna see) and Victoria (Phyllida Crowley Smith.. I CAN SPELL HER NAME RIGHT!!!) (Cori – Wow…) who seem to want to meet her, but they are taken away from her presence before they can by Jellylorum (Who has the best singing part in Growltiger, I may just add). Demeter sings that she is an outcast to the tribe and that no one would believe that once she was Grizabella the Glamour Cat.
As she leaves Quaxo realises that someone has arrived. A rather 'large' someone. He enters from whateva side of the stage that he enters from and we learn that Bustopher Jones, is the fattest cat weighing in at 25 pounds! Jennyanydots, Jellylorum and Bombalurina (It's probably different in the stage version but don't shoot me okay..) (Cori – That's an idea… heh heh heh) (Oh go plot someplace else.) explain that he is not only fat but a 'rich' cat and he feasts on venison and other such luxuries. Jenny seems quite infatuated with him. (Cori – Sounds like you and poor Drew nee?) (Eugh.. stop copying my finishing words.) At the end of his song he gives Jenny his red flower from his button hole. BUT…..
Suddenly the sound of crashing glass is heard. OH NO!!! (Cori – How cliché) (Buzz off) Demeter yells out the one line that she is famous for. (For the uneducated who haven't seen CATS.. I could say something very rude here but I won't... she yells out MACAVITY!!) Munkustrap makes sure that all the cats are out of the junkyard safely before he himself runs off. Then what do we hear? (Cori – She's been anticipating this moment for ages…) HEE HEE HEE HEE!!! SHHHHH!!! WHO IS IT?!?!??!?!?!? IT'S Mungo AND RUMPLE!!!! YAAAAAAAAYY!! Out pops Rumple from a er thingy (Does anyone actually know what she pops out of?) (Cori – A toaster?) (OH HA HA) giggling as she goes. She is told to 'shut up' by her partner in crime who at that present moment is not visible to the audience. (At this point my popcorn stops rustling completely as I am on the floor trying to figure out just how she manages to get her foot to stay in the air at the end part and how it gets to stay so damned high!) She motions for him to come forwards, and he to pops out of the (Cori – TOASTER!!!)…… *cough* um.. no… They thrust their bags of loot over their shoulders with one are and with the other they trace their body shape and do a little "cat burglar running away pose". They then hop of the little ledge they were originally standing on and get onto the main stage. They begin to sing their song. Their dance moves are simply divine as we see them telling how they are always stealing from their family and from other families and how when they do get caught they are running so fast that they are a blur of colour so the mistress and master of the house can't tell them apart (hence the saying: 'now which was which cat?!'). They finally get to the point where they are so loud that some of the other cats are peeping onstage to see them. They end their INCREDIBLY WONDERFULLY TERRIFICALLY SPLEDIFICAL performance with a … wait for it… wait for it… a DOUBLE cartwheel! They are the hardest things to do and then!! (There's more!!) He stands with his legs wide apart so that they are bent to the extent (hee hee… that rhymes) that Rumple can kneel with one leg on it with the other leg almost vertical and her arm straight in the air whilst holding on for dear life with the other one. All in all it is an excellent finish. Hey Lilo? If you wanna see a piccie of that… go to my piccie's sections! I think I have piccies of two different Mungo's and Rumple's doing that. Phew! As they do that last pose the rest of the tribe come out… Demeter is exceedingly annoyed that she had been tricked into thinking that they were Macavity and tells them off. Their loot bags are chucked over a large pile of rubbish and they try to escape the circle of Jellicles that have surrounded them. They run in three different directions before breaking their barrier at the back of the circle and running away. I might just point out that in the VHS two verses of their wonderful song were cut and it wasn't to the original tune of Mungo and Rumple. The original is a wonderful 20's style jazzie tune that is so much fun to sing and listen and dance (Cori – You dance like a duck…) (I never said that I was a good dancer okay!) to.
The next scene all the cats are welcoming Old Deuteronomy. No not the guy in the bible but 'The oldest cat' of the tribe. He is the leader of the tribe also and all the kits and adults love him. Whilst he is being introduced by Munkustrap and a slightly less, shall we say, overexcited Rum Tum Tugger, the rest of the cats are rolling around on the floor. Rather an interesting sight really. Anyway, when he finally shows up we hear a wonderful tenor or bass (I dunno which one) voice (Old D.) singing a terrific solo. It really is a wonderful part of the play. Especially when the whole cast sing Well of all things can it be really? No! Yes! Ho Hi! Oh my eye! My mind may be wandering but I confess! I believe it is old Deuteronomy! This part is just so wonderful it leaves me tingly all over! (Cori – To much information) Anyway. Once Old D. has arrived we get into his special 'production' that is done for him by all the cats.
The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, are proud and implacable passionate foes! Yes! It's time for the Aweful Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles together with some account of the participation of the pugs and the poms and the intervention of the great Rumpus Cat. (Yes, Lilo, that last sentence is the whole name for it…. *phew* it is a bummer to write though.) Munkustrap gets to sing this part. It is a long poem that tells of the story of the aforewritten name. He starts by telling them that dogs in general are horrible because they bark. There is a wonderful 'barking' session there in which the toms and the queens 'bark' at 'opposite' times. He then goes on to say that one day two dogs, a peke and a pollicle, happened to meet. Out pops Rumple and Mungo dressed up as dogs. Now don't ask me why you know they are them (Cori – How'd you know it was them?) *sigh* because you can see her pearls and boots and those suspended legings that she has to wear. They pop out and in general stuff up as Mungo can't get his barking order correct. We then hear about the peke. Whom as Munkustrap puts it is a 'heathen Chinese'. (A/N this is not an insult it just means that the peke is an unlearned dog. And if you think about it, no real dog is learned…. Sad really. And just to make it feel better Rumple gets VERY annoyed about his insult and dobs on him. Please also remember that cats in general dislike dogs so they aren't likely to be being peachy and creamy to them nee?) He then continues on to the male dogs who are the pollicles. We then get to hear a great song called to marching song of the pollicle dogs. Which is funny as one of them stuffs up and goes the wrong direction. Which then puts off the whole team of marching dogs. We then have a big barking session in which the pollicles and the pekes are on separate side of the stages. Munku gives a tremendous scream of NOW!!!! and they shut up. He then tells us how one cat sent them all off and on their way named to Rumpus Cat. This part of the VHS is soooooooooo funny! Especially when Munku says: "You never saw anything f-i-e-r-cer o-r- hairier. The Rumpus Cat stretches and then rubs his tummy. The rest of the cats sing: All hail and all bow to the great Rumpus Cat. And then they all congregate around Old D.
Old Deuteronomy then warns all the cats that:
Jellicle cats and dogs all must,
Pollicle dogs and cats all must,
Like undertakers,
Come to DUST!
On the last word crashing is heard. MACAVITY! Is screamed by a rather freaked out…. (Cori – Guess Who) Demeter.
The next part of the musical is a seven minutes, sometimes nine minutes long. It is a huge overture in which there are about five general parts.
PART ONE
The cats return from offstage after being freaked out by MACAVITY!!! They dance and sing telling us the main characteristics of Jellicle cats including:
Jellicle cats have moonlit eyes – Sung by Beckie Parker, Cassandra
Jellicle cats are of moderate size – Sung By Drew Varley and Jo Gibb, Rumple and Mungo.
And so on.
PART TWO
The cats start doing slow dances. Very graceful dances.
PART THREE
Out comes Bombi and about five other of the queens. They dance a 'sexy' dance and are then 'taken' (Cori – They're carried of and it is all in good taste.) (You keep telling yourself that. I saw you oggling at Tant) (Cori – HUH?!?!?!) (He he he he he) by the male cats.
PART FOUR
This has commonly been called the 'mating dance'. In which Viccy becomes a queen. Or loses her kittenhood to erm… is it Plato or is it that ugly one… no it's Plato. She dances a little by herself and then Plato er hrms… with her. The rest of them come together in a pile in the middle of the stage all with their respective partners. Mungo and Rumple, Misto and Jemi etc…
PART FIVE
We hear the beginning of the overture and then all of a sudden the cats are up in a flurry of colour. THIS IS THE BESTEST PIECE OF MUSIC EVER!!! LILO… I'LL LET YOU BORROW MY CD JUST TO HEAR THIS PART IT IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!! Then all of a sudden they all collapse.
END PART ONE OF CATS (AKA ACT ONE IS OVER)