#ss: tugger dance

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Bombalurina will now be having all the attention and spotlight, thank you.

... and will also hip-check the background Tugger out of frame.

Tugger said 'challenge accepted'. Off he goes to rally his boys!

Vienna revival, 24 June 2022, filmed by @cryptidvoidwritings and @falasta. Petra Ilse Dam and Dominik Hees, plus Anneka Dacres as Cassandra.

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it's ok he picked her up again 😌

(Petra Ilse Dam and Dominik Hees, Vienna revival 23/6/22, filmed by @falasta and @cryptidvoidwritings)

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Final week of the Vienna production, and Birgit Arquin's Bomba is on fire.

... while Tugger (Dominik Hees) considers the goods but initially declines to commit himself.

.... the way she looks at the audience...! 🥵

And this is after she and Dominik got rather raunchy up on the tyre during the fugue.

Vienna revival, 24 June 2022. Filmed by @falasta and @cryptidvoidwritings, giffed with permission.

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me: innocently giffing things

birgit arquin:

me: ... excuse me ma'am, i am supposed to be ace, could you just. uh... never mind, actually, carry on.

(Birgit Arquin with incoming Dominik Hees as Tugger, Vienna revival 24/6/22 - ie, two days before closing night. Filmed by @falasta and @cryptidvoidwritings, giffed with permission. Full gifset to come, I just. Ma'am.)

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After a very long ovation for the dance break of this final performance of (Australian) Matthew Levick as Mistoffelees, Dominik Hees as Tugger finally reclaims everyone's attention, in a broad parody of an Aussie accent...

And Alexander Auler's Munkustrap has some feelings! (Jo Lucy Rackham as Demeter is sympathetic, while Vicky Riddoch as Electra giggles into her knee.)

A proud Munkustrap is, of course, entirely in character.

Two nights before closing night for the Vienna revival: that is, 24/06/22. Filmed by @cryptidvoidwritings and @falasta, and giffed with permission.

Here's the house cam of the whole number from Misto's entrance, courtesy of Matthew Levick's youtube account:

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Please look at these doofus boys getting ready for their Big Tough Dance. And especially look at Tumble, under Plato's excited encouragement. He's gonna be BIG and TOUGH with the BIG BOYS!

Plato said 'hey you should join us!' Tumble went stomping over to Tugger with his BIG BOY STOMPY FEET to check if it was okay with him demand admission to the Big Boys Club get a fist bump! yay! Then he turned back to Plato to say OMG EXCITED WIGGLE! Then proceeded to prove how big and mature he is with some MUSCLE POSES which Plato was definitely not giggling at.

And Plato's hand staying on Tumblebrutus' shoulder until they hear their cue! He feels your excitement, smol friend! (and might be encouraging you to keep it in check just a tiny bit.)

Oasis cast 11, 23 October 2021. Joshua Donald as Tumblebrutus, Nick Woodford as Tugger, and Ryan Lay as Plato.

(Footage by @paulsmacias on instagram.)

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Jakob Ambrose as Alonzo in the 2014 Asia tour (X).

With Earl Gregory as Tugger, Patrick Hill as Munkustrap, and Amy Berrisford as Demeter.

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wiggledance!

Riccardo Sinisi as Mistoffelees and Dominik Hees as Tugger (plus Anna Carina Buchegger's Rumpelteazer hanging out cutely on the ladder).

Vienna revival, 2022. Filmed from the wings by Nicholas Li (Admetus). See this post for the full clip!

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Sometimes you have to stop to recharge at the ‘believing in you’ station. (Tugger’s not letting him get away with just a salute - we’re going to do the hand-squeeze here. Or here, use his chest floof to stim!)

Yu Hoe-ung as Mistoffelees and E Nok as Tugger, with Na Min as Sillabub and Kim Su-Min as Victoria; 2011 Korean tour.

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The Yearning of the Rebaldistrap: a tragedy in five parts

Regarding this post speculating about Jack Rebaldi's Munkustrap, and how he wishes he could be Tugger / be with Bombalurina (or hey, maybe it's the other way round): let us consider exhibit A, the honky-tonk in Madrid!

Mistoffelees, Mungojerrie, and Pouncival were just about to be Jemima and Victoria's back-up boys! Jemima and Victoria were about to shine! Coricopat was about to... do something? involving a hip-thrust, apparently? But no, time for the sexy grown-up dance, courtesy of Bombalurina.

Munkustrap draws himself up, then does the patented Cats thigh-clawing of sexual frustration. He begins to descend the steps, and Alonzo pops up beside him for a little consult.

Alonzo and Munkustrap Discuss Matters. Demeter is apparently assigned to Alonzo. Tugger comes forward and hovers as if he assumed he was going to be involved here...? but no. No Tugger in this dance, not today. Plato gets Cassandra, M&R and T&C are together, and Munkustrap, for once, has decided that he may have this dance.

Bombalurina: leg

Munkustrap: yes please

The camera focusses on Alonzo and Demeter for a moment, and when we cut wide again, it's just in time to see Munkustrap showing us his moves. Just casually flipping Bombalurina 360 degrees as he hoists her up onto his shoulder, nbd.

As he sets her down (behind Tumblebrutus' shoulder there) he leans in (and down, because he is a long noodle boy who has to lean down for everybody) and goes in for a soft nose-touch.

But wait, who's this flouncing over to join? It's Mr Rowdy Fun Boy himself!

For a moment Munkustrap stiffens and draws himself up, as if he's going to object. But almost immediately he softens his stance, and steps aside. And he looks away. And Tugger crouches down with Bombalurina, and she turns her head to play with him. And the normal order of the world is restored.

And Munkustrap is alone again.

(Jack Rebaldi, Paqui Sánchez Melchior as Bombalurina, and Edu del Prado as Tugger; Madrid 2004. Clearer footage from a different night over here!)

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Tugger joining in Munkustrap’s dance at the ball - and echoing his rather nice hip action.

Malco Rev as Munkustrap and Gilles Vajou as Tugger, Paris 1990.

These were both covers: Malco was cast as Plato/Macavity, and Gilles as Tumblebrutus.

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Even Tugger can’t manage to sneer when he gets as cute as that.

Yu Hoe-ung as Mistoffelees and E Nok as Tugger, 2011 Korean tour.

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Look at this first-generation Shiki video! And with white Tugger too! Such gentle conjuring turns - but they go on forever.

Yuichiro Yamaguchi as Rum Tum Tugger and Osami Iino as Mistoffelees, Tokyo 1983.

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Guy-Paul de Saint Germain doing the Mistoffelees dance break, Paris 1990. Gilles Vajou (first cast Tumblebrutus) is covering Tugger.