C. Daniel Dawson (photograph), Amiri #10, (gelatin silver print), 1970 [Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Collection of the artist. © Daniel Dawson]

Where Monsters Lie #1 (2023)

Daniel Dawson, a swing in US tour 5, 2009–10, in makeup that’s a medley of the five roles he covered.

Posted on 14 January 2016, for National Swing Day. His comments (including a list of the characters) below the cut.

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Where Monsters Lie #1 (2023)

Alonzo, Mistoffelees, and Tugger, in the Growltiger sequence: La Mirada, 2014.

In the first gif, Alonzo drags Tugger and Mistoffelees apart then spins them around so he ends up between them; in the second he leans on each of them in turn to sing dramatically in their ears; in the third, Growltiger scares Mistoffelees enough that he leaps into a faint in their arms (and those of Munkustrap); in the fourth, all the raffish crew do their best to show up well as Griddlebone pretends to swoon.

(Except Munkustrap, who is decidedly unimpressed by this whole femininity thing.)

It’s practically a job requirement in Growltiger’s crew to be hopelessly giddy over Griddlebone, but Munkustrap’s... just not feeling it.

La Mirada, 2014: Karl Warden as Munkustrap, Madison Mitchell as Griddlebone, Brian Steven Shaw as Alonzo (blue and yellow shirt), Dane Wagner as Mistoffelees,  Daniel Dawson as Skimbleshanks, Todrick Hall as Tugger (red and yellow shirt and red sash around his head).