The cast of the Italia Tour has been announced !

It can be downloaded here as a pdf :
http://www.musical.it/new/CATS_locandina.pdf

AZZURRA ADINOLFI - Bombalaurina -> Bombalurina
FEDERICA BALDI - Jemima -> Jemia
GIANLUCA CIATTI - Caligola -> ?? Bill Bailey ??
ROBERTO COLOMBO - Sghemboexpress -> Skimbleshanks
SIMONE DE ROSE - Alonzo -> Alonzo
TIZIANO EDINI - Parsifal -> Pouncival
STEFANIA FRATEPIETRO - Jennytuttapois -> Jennyanydots
SILVANA ISOLANI - Cassandra -> Cassandra
ALESSANDRO LANZILLOTTI - Mr. Mistofeles/Quazo -> Quaxo/Mr Mistoffelees
ROBERTA MIOLLA - Victoria -> Victoria
FABIO MONTI - Gus/Asparagus/Gattigre -> Gus/Growltiger
ALESSANDRO NERI - Deuteronomio/Ciccio Gourmet -> Old Deuteronomy - Bustopher Jones
GIULIA OTTONELLO - Grisabella -> Grizabella
MASSIMILIANO PIRONTI - Mangojerry -> Mungojerrie
MARIA SILVIA ROLI - Zampalesta -> ?? Rumple ?
ANDREA ROSSI - Ram Tam Taggher -> Rum Tum Tugger
LAURA SAFINA - Exotica -> Exotica
LOREDANA SARTORI - Jellilora/Occhibui -> Jellylorum/Griddlebone
CHIARA VECCHI - Demetra -> Demeter
ANDREA VERZICCO - Munkostrap -> Munkustrap
GIUSEPPE VERZICCO - Macavity/Platone -> Plato/Macavity
CHIARA VINCI - Electra -> Electra

Interesting to see there is Exotica but no Etcetera ! Also, the Old Deuteronomy performer is apparently also playing Bustopher Jones !


So, I was planning to fly to Italia to see the show, but if the costumes shown in the preview are the real ones... I really won't ! There are videos on youtube, here is the link to one of them :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUbnGvf-E8M

In this video, the guy is surrounded by Bombalurina & Demeter :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAEuV0Y2z9M&feature=related

Planet of the Ape...cat...things...

Odd that they list Growltiger and Griddlebone, yet on the site their song list left of Last Stand. It didn't have Pekes and Pollicles either.

Prosthetics and pompoms??? umm... no thankyou. I'm not seeing much of the Jellicle Cats in those costumes.

Hi

They look strange, no doubt about it.

Spatz

that's not cats for me.
and no twins??????????????

Jennytuttapois? Use a good advice and never translate names... We have one or two of thoose kinds of creativity here in sweden to and its only tends to confuse youre audience when youre taking youre own names internationally.

A good writer never translates names.

Aw, I think "Ciccio Gourmet" is cute.

Where in Italy is it playing (and when)?

The masks is qute (Cats meet star trek kinda feeling) but the rest of the costumes break off to much off that style to make me feel confortable. But I guess the costumes looks better on stage than in full daylight..

Id love to see the way the actors and dancers do theyre part while off the script so to say. I guess its part of knowing youre caracter thing but this kind of acting always makes me gaspering and woundering how much thats choreografi and how much that the actor create here and now...

Hm that building look familiar... I think Ive been there, or at least outside it...

I don't like the masks...
It makes me think too much of 'furries'...defiantly NOT Cats...ergg

Maybe why I like the masks... I just wrote a script about furries...

That video is very cool, though. You know, Rome is one of the top three cities in the WORLD with most cats (I think Barcelona is no. 1). Anyone who's visited ancient sites in Rome knows how cats tend to lie/sit/stand at the most random places. There's even an own post card/calendar line (Cats in Rome) dedicated to this.