Are you blind when you’re born? Can you see in the dark? Dare you look at a king? Would you sit on his throne? Leader of the pack…perhaps even the son of Old Deuteronomy? In charge of all the Jellicles…because Jellicles can and Jellicles do…MROW.
Thank you so much for a few moments of your time! Can you tell us who you are and who you are playing here in Cats?
And when you hear a dining room smash or up from the pantry there comes a loud crash.
Or down from the library there comes a loud ping from a vase that was commonly said to be Ming.
Then family will say: “Now which was which cat?” It wasn’t Mungojerrie (we saw him yesterday!) but rather Rumpleteazer! Meow. CRASH.
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If the drawers are pulled out from the bedroom chests and you can’t find one of your winter vests! If after supper, one of the girls, suddenly misses her Woolworth pearls…the family will say “it’s that horrible cat!” But was it…Mungojerrie? Or…Rumpleteazer? Hmm.
Thank you for giving us a moment of your time! Please tell us who you play and who you are!
Benjamin Marsh: My name is Benjamin Marsh and I play Mungojerrie,
Jellicle Cats are roly-poly! They know how to dance a gavotte and a jig! Can you guess which prima ballerina cat we’re about to speak with? Meow!
Thank you for giving us a moment of your time; tell us who you are and who you play!
Katelyn O’Connor: I’m Katelyn O’Connor and I play Victoria.
Tell me a little bit about Victoria.
Katelyn: She’s kind of one of the young cats who is just getting into the group.
Jellicle Cats meet once a year at the Jellicle Ball where we all rejoice! A very special Jellicle Cat joins in the rank of these fantastically talented feline performers, giving us their take on being involved with Tidewater Players’ production of Cats. (For those of you frantically scanning your script trying to find Euterpeco… like Macavity, he’s not there. We’ve made this name up especially for the show’s Musical Director, as Euterpe is the Greek Muse of music.)
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Jellicle Cats…they like to practice their air and graces! And wait for the Jellicle Moon to rise! Be prepared to meet one of the dancer cats in this ‘Jellicles Can and Jellicles Do’ interview.
Thank you for giving us a few moments of your time— tell us who you are and who you’re playing in this production of Cats.
Samantha Jednorski: I’m Samantha Jednorski and I play Cassandra.
“Like the sunflower, I learn to turn my face to the dawn. I am waiting, for the day.” ~Sillabub.
“Growltiger had no eye or ear for aught but Griddlebone, and the Lady seemed enraptured by his manly baritone.” ~Growltiger’s Last Stand.
While the musical number may or may not be included in this current production of Cats (that’s all on ALW and the licensing folk) Griddlebone the Cat as well as Sillabub the cat are both cats who are still a part of Cats.
We can balance on bars…we can walk on a wire…the other half of the ‘psychic twins’ cats, is our dear, delightful Tantomile!
Thank you so very much for giving us a moment or two (or nine?) of your time! Tell us who you are and who you are playing!
Erin Acerno: My name is Erin Acerno and I play Tantomile.
Ooh. Tell me about Tantomile.
Erin: Well she’s a very naïve kitten.
Oratorical cats, Delphicoracle cats… okay, that last one might be some made up nonsense by Andrew Lloyd Webber and T.S. Eliot, but nevertheless, it sounds like the oracles at Delphi, which is appropriate as we meet Coricopat— one half of the ‘psychic twin’ cats who are often doing lift and spin dance routines.
Thank you so much for giving us a few moments of your time! Tell us who you are and which cat you’re playing.
Can you sing at the same time in more than one key? Duets by Rossini and waltzes by Strauss?
And can you (as cats do) begin with a ‘c’? That always triumphantly brings down the house!
A principal-singing cat, we come at you next with Emily Garner in our full-cast series “Jellicles Can and Jellicles Do”, featuring the 27 performers in Tidewater Players’ production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats.
Feline, fearless, faithful, and true. Jellicle cats can and Jellicle cats do. Preparing to meet our second cat in the Jellicle Cat Lineup, for the upcoming fall production of Tidewater Players’ Cats, we have Suzanne Zacker, recently returned to the Maryland area, and dipping her paws back into the theatrical pond, so to speak!
Thank you for giving us a few moments of your time! Tell us who you are and who you play in this production of Cats!
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats…the hypnotic poem of T.S. Eliot blended with the mesmerizing music of Andrew Lloyd Webber…coming very, very soon to a stage near you! Tidewater Players is tackling the monumental challenge of staging the iconic, second-longest-running Broadway musical Cats this fall— featuring an all-star cast and renowned veteran director Bambi Johnson. In a TheatreBloom exclusive series you’ll get to meet all 27 cats— MEE-OOW! Instead of using traditional actor headshots to identify each performer,
Practical cats, dramatical cats, pragmatical cats, fanatical
cats! Oratorical cats, delphioracle cats, allegorical cats, metaphorical cats!
And then of course there’s the Jellicle Cat. What— you ask— is a Jellicle Cat?
Well…no better way to learn than to venture out in the moonlight to Baltimore’s
Hippodrome Theatre and see them live in action. Cats, the first show of
the 2020 calendar to land in Charm City will mesmerize you, enchant you, and
have you glowing with delight.
Jellicle cats come out tonight! Jellicle cats come one, come all! Jellicle cats at Milburn Stone— Jellicle cats have a Jellicle Ball! And you too will find yourself among the feline fantasy world of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats if you dare to venture to the Milburn Stone Theatre for a sensational production of Broadway’s second-longest running musical. Directed and Choreographed by Bambi Johnson with Musical Direction by Shane Jensen, this phenomenally enchanting evening is whimsy incarnate and invites you to a wildly wondrous world of feline fantasy that will delight every family this holiday season.
Living…dead…and…undecided! Every member of the Addams Family clan is welcome in this creepy and kooky interview series. And Grandma Addams is definitely on the undecided line of the family fence. Why, they aren’t even sure whose mother she is! In Part 3 of the Move Toward the Darkness Interview Series, veteran of the stage David James sits down with TheatreBloom to discuss his role in The Addams Family musical at Toby’s Dinner Theatre.
When you’re an Addams you need to have a taste for death! And there is plenty to taste over at Toby’s Dinner Theatre with their regional premier of Andrew Lippa’s The Addams Family musical. In a highly comical musical that reanimates the classic comic strip characters, this brilliant production sends the message to embrace your inner darkness and enjoy the world outside the boundaries of normal. What is normal anyway? In an exclusive series entitled “Move Toward the Darkness” readers of TheatreBloom will delve into the darkness with the cast of The Addams Family and find out just what being a part of this creepy and kooky production is like!