#cats couples

Munkustrap and Mistoffelees must have a little consult—or a private look and touch after the excitement of Mistoffelees' number.

... and then check in again a moment later when Grizabella appears.

want u back ✨

Tumblebrutus needs a Skimbleshanks attention, please.

(Or just a tail, that will do.)

Well, in his farewell post (😭), he dropped the whole photo—and it's even better than expected!

THEY DID 😭🥰

HE SAID YES......!!!!!

(meanwhile the audience:)

Marcell Visscher was Skimbleshanks in the 2006–07 Dutch tour of Cats; Stanley Burleson was a swing and then Munkustrap in the original Dutch production (Amsterdam 1987–88), and came back to play Tugger for about a month in the Dutch tour in Amsterdam for the twentieth anniversary of that original production.

Stanley's the one kneeling. Clip from Stanley's insta, though Marcel shared the same clip.

And this is them at the premier of the Dutch tour in 2006!

Look, real talk for a moment? This is beautiful and it tugs at my heart.

As someone who's spent over a decade training in an industry / vocational environment where you're lucky if you can find a non-casual position for a year or two even in the country of your choice, let alone end up, say, in the same institution as your SO for long enough to build a life together...

... it hurts me and it makes me very very happy to see moments like this, where Matthew Levick can just flip across the stage and his partner Alexander Auler can be there every night to see him and say YES THAT'S MY BOY HE'S AWESOME. (plus delicate leggie, because, aulerstrap.)

Adulting and stability are becoming so much harder lately, and all the more so for devalued jobs like the arts, so. Moments like this, worth appreciating. And envying.

Be beautiful together, boys. ❤️

(Also, Alex Snova's Tugger going 'fuck yes, tumbleflips!')