#coricopatxvictoria

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Remember how Coricopat was Victoria's original pas de deux partner?

(London 1981)

Here they are, more than 40 years later, leading the ball together!

Marisa Paull Gorst in her debut as Victoria and Wilson Brady Livingston as Coricopat. US tour 6, October 2022.

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Caitlin Bond as Victoria and PJ DiGaetano as Coricopat, 2019 US tour (X).

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Kitty pile in the German tent tour!

Andrés Pérez López is Pouncival and Dane Quixall is Mungojerrie. For the rest, I'm fairly sure Marleen de Vries is Rumpelteazer, Anique Bosch is Victoria, John Baldoz is Coricopat, and Isabela Silvova is Tantomile. (X) All of which would make this the first year of the tour: 2010–11!

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Some gorgeous promo shots for the 2022 international tour: 14 June 2022, photographer Susanne Brill (X).

Shakeel Kimotho as Coricopat, Milan Cacacie as Tantomile, Maiya Hikasa as Victoria, and...

bonus, Dane Quixall as himself!

(Giving Coricopat the nice hug they deserve.)

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Hyla Mayrose Perillo: The psychic twins are a lil weird but Victoria loves her moments with Tant and Coricio. She definitely thinks their intelligence is cool 🤩

(aka, me asking questions about relationships that we don't focus on so much to see what this cast throws out!)

2021 US tour. Chelsea Nicole Mitchell as Bombalurina, Lexy Bittner as Cassandra, Kayli Jamison as Jellylorum, Elana Valastro as Rumpelteazer, Hyla as Victoria, Brianna Kim as Sillabub, and Alexia Waites as Tantomile. Photo is from 28/09/2021, Q&A 8/10/2021.

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Cats with bunnies!! The cast of the 2019 US tour with the bunnies that one of their dressers brought in for Easter.

Skimble loves his bunny. 🥺

Caitlin Bond as Victoria, PJ DiGaetano as Coricopat, Devin Neilson covering Skimbleshanks, Ahren Victory as Sillabub, Mariah Reives as Cassandra, Rose Iannaccone as Rumpelteazer, Halli Toland as Tantomile, and Emily Jeanne Phillips as Jennyanydots.

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Strut, strut, fashion Jellicle...!

2020 Asia tour: Tyler Lotzof as Victoria, Aaron Lynch dying of laughter, Emily Casey laughing at them both.

Below the cut: Fletcher Dobinson's much less sfw version of the fashion strut, still with Aaron's enthusiastic endorsement.

Actually, I think he might be wearing Aaron's tail.

Also Ellie Nunan (Jennyanydots), Dominique Hamilton too busy doing her Rumpelteazer makeup to watch the fashion show - and Suzie Melloy (Bombalurina) filming. Wearing her lovely kimono, as we can just glimpse in the mirror.

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Coricopat (Nolan Frederick) and Victoria (Jacquie Harman) practising the pas de deux in London 1983 - back in the day when that was part of Coricopat’s role, not Admetus’ (or Alonzo’s, or Tumble’s, or Pouncival’s, or Plato’s).

One-handed only - but she’s taking some of her own weight with the legs curved around his back! What gorgeous lines.

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Happy 40th birthday, CATS!

11 May 2021 marks the 40th anniversary of the opening night of the original London production. If I can, I'll be posting all this week clips from each of the major productions from the first two decades of the musical's life - starting, of course, with the original itself!

Here is a photo of the opening night cast, and a three-minute medley of clips of rehearsals with Gillian Lynne, including snippets of dress rehearsals of 'Jellicle songs' and 'Jellicle Ball'. In the pas de deux, Victoria is Finola Hughes, her partner is Coricopat (not Plato/Admetus) played by Donald Waugh, and Skimbleshanks is Kenn Wells. Who, by the way, goes hard in the dancing. Skimble is a little terrifying. 👀

(Excerpted from a 20-minute documentary, which can be found here.)

And here is a TV performance of the original 'Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer' - so, of course, not on the proper stage, but in front of a TV audience. Bonnie Langford and John Thornton.

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Coritoria, for Victoria's day!

Tyler Lotzof and Taylor Scanlan, 2020 Asia tour; from Tyler's 'one second every day' video log.