Terrence Mann as the Rum Tum Tugger is the reason I got into Les Mis in the first place. I realized that he'd been Javert, and therefore stopped resisting when my friend tried to make me listen to Les Mis. *g*
I think Mistoffolees sings "Mungojerrie and Rumpleteaser" alone, and Mungojerrie and Rumpleteaser acted out the song. That eventually changed to Mungo and Rumple singing and dancing their own song, not sure when.
I too love Skimbleshanks! And he gets the best names in other languages - he's "Edgar" in French, and in some other language (I forget if it's Hungarian or German) he's "Elvis."
And yep, Grizabella is Betty Buckley, who was also Martha Jefferson.
Most of the show is T. S. Eliot. The Grizabella story came from unpublished fragments, I think, and for "Memory" and "Grizabella the Glamour Cat" Trevor Nunn used lines from "Rhapsody on a Windy Night." I'm not sure what happened with "Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats." On the DVD you can hear Andrew Lloyd Webber singing the poem it was based on, which was about "The Man in White Spats" talking about Pollicles and Jellicles. I think the "There's a man over there..." bit comes from that poem. And I guess Trevor Nunn wrote the Pollicles out of the song. Or something. Lot of help I am. :)
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Date: 2004-05-27 07:37 pm (UTC)I think Mistoffolees sings "Mungojerrie and Rumpleteaser" alone, and Mungojerrie and Rumpleteaser acted out the song. That eventually changed to Mungo and Rumple singing and dancing their own song, not sure when.
I too love Skimbleshanks! And he gets the best names in other languages - he's "Edgar" in French, and in some other language (I forget if it's Hungarian or German) he's "Elvis."
And yep, Grizabella is Betty Buckley, who was also Martha Jefferson.
Most of the show is T. S. Eliot. The Grizabella story came from unpublished fragments, I think, and for "Memory" and "Grizabella the Glamour Cat" Trevor Nunn used lines from "Rhapsody on a Windy Night." I'm not sure what happened with "Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats." On the DVD you can hear Andrew Lloyd Webber singing the poem it was based on, which was about "The Man in White Spats" talking about Pollicles and Jellicles. I think the "There's a man over there..." bit comes from that poem. And I guess Trevor Nunn wrote the Pollicles out of the song. Or something. Lot of help I am. :)