my mind may be wandering...

i’ve been seeing a lot about cats vs cats the jellicle ball and every time I look at people praising ctjb (as they should) it’s always also about putting down the original version as “nonsense” or “pointless” or “silly” and how ctjb “finally makes the show make sense” it just hurts my heart because cats has always been about finding a community and welcoming outcasts and coming together and celebrating differences, and so many actors in replica/non-replicas productions have portrayed their cats as LGBTQIA+ and there have been so many amazing poc and LGBTQIA+ actors in the history of the show, and ctjb is just another amazing version of the show that expands on the themes that have always been part of cats the musical.

I found a clip of Jacob as Misto during the longest running show celebration in the late 90s.

His make up looks a lot like Stephan Martin Allen’s in the Vienna press run makeup.

Look, Dolokhov's coming around And we're off to the club Will you come, old man?

jamie muscato as anatole and declan bennett as pierre / donmar warehouse, 2025

neil speaks up, “sam and frodo sure do act like they’re married or something, don’t they?” todd is flustered at first, but he makes a bold move. “we act just like they do, too. if they act like they’re married, what does that make us?”

neil goes quiet, and todd does too. because deep down, they both know that they’re something more than friends. they’re not married, either. they’re a third option. the silence consumes them both.

monochrome family !

headcanons below :3

“i’m the only bitch serving cunt here 😭😭😭 omg 😭 i’m soooo embarrassed 😭😭”

aka the. Deuteronomy brothers.

head canons under cut ! :3 If u wanna read them

I love this stupid little musical 🙂‍↕️ (from the Cats (1998) Musical btw)

Lucy May Barker as Grizabella, Micheal Robert-Lowe as Deuteronomy and an embarrassed Shem Omari James as Rum Tum Tugger.

Russell Dickson as Munkustrap with Gavin Eden as Skimbleshanks.

Cats International Tour, 2025.

Hi all. As promised, I am sharing a comprehensive .PDF of model sheets that were created for the Amblimation Cats movie that never saw the light of day. Most of these model sheets have not been published or posted anywhere on the internet as far as I'm aware. I'm going to get ahead of some questions for the good of the order:

Are these real? I certainly didn't sit and create all 117 pages myself for the sake of an elaborate hoax!

How did you get these? I work in the animation industry. A senior coworker caught wind of my cats obsession and said he had the Xeroxes and asked if I wanted him to bring them in. Internally, I flipped my shit. And then I digitized his hard copies.

How did your coworker get these? They were found in the library of the university he used to go to. (Not super unusual at an arts school in southern California.) He made photo copies back then and has been holding onto them. The thing is he knows nothing about CATS; isn't a CATS fan, never seen it, etc. I guess he just felt it was something worth holding on to!

Can you upload better quality? Unfortunately what you're seeing as good as the quality gets. These are scans of photocopies from the 90s. There is nothing to be done for the crunchiness.

What about (missing characters)? I'm showing you everything I was personally given!

Which character is (nondescript drawing of a cat)? If the image isn't labeled, your guess is as good as mine! I put all the misc./unlabeled cats in the back of the PDF. The only exceptions are ones that I felt were abundantly obviously supposed to be a specific character.

Who are the artists? Unfortunately, there's no way I can tell for sure. None of the sheets are signed. I wouldn't even go about guessing because many concept artists can perfectly emulate more "well known" illustrators whose styles were sought after. My coworker said he might be able to figure out who the draftsmen were; until then it's a mystery! If I find out, I will come back to this post and update it with that information.

Are these all the model sheets ever? No! In fact, there are model sheets that have been posted online that are not in the bundle I was given. I have no idea of the sum total of model sheets in existence.