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uppastthejelliclemoon · 2 years

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I wished that they cast a black or Asian actors to play munkustrap and rum Tum Tugger. Could that ever happen?

for anyone seeing this: this list is very long, so i'm apologizing in advance if i've missed any actors!! i've gone through the entire cats wiki for both characters and did my best to compile a thorough list, but ofc let me know if there's any mistakes!

Tugger:

Richard Lloyd King (1980s London)

Tee Jay (1980s London)

Yuichiro Yamaguchi (1980s Tokyo Tugger)

Mayo Kawasaki (1980s Tokyo)

Gregory McKinnon (1980s Vienna Tugger - Cover)

Takanori Shimomura (1995 Tokyo)

Eric Clausell (1993 Australia)

Masaru Yamaki (1999 Nagoya, Osaka 2001)

Tsutomu Arakawa (1995 Tokyo, 1999 Nagoya, Osaka 2001, Tokyo 2004, Yokohama 2009)

Kiyomichi Shiba (1995 Tokyo, 1999 Nagoya Osaka 2001, Tokyo 2004, Yokohama 2009, Fukuoka 2014)

Shoichi Fukui (Tokyo 2004, Yokohama 2009)

Shinya Tanabe (Tokyo 2004, Yokohama 2009, Sapporo 2015, Osaka 2016)

Kim Sungrak (Osaka 2001, Tokyo 2004)

Yoichiro Akutsu (Tokyo 2004, Yokohama 2009, Sendai 2013, Shizuoka 2013, Fukuoka 2013)

Toshihide Kaneda (Tokyo 2004)

Kan Muto (Tokyo 2004)

Masaru Kanamori (Yokohama 2009)

Li Tao (Yokohama 2009, Hiroshima 2012, Sapporo 2015)

Tatsuro Iida (Yokohama 2009, Hiroshima 2012, Sendai 2013, Sapporo 2015)

Gino Emnes (Dutch Tour 2006)

Stanley Burleson (Dutch Tour 2006)

Daesung (South Korea 2008/2011)

Kim Jin-woo (South Korea 2008/2011)

Ra Jun (South Korea 2008/2011)

E Nok (South Korea 2008/2011)

Jung Min (South Korea 2008/2011)

Earl Gregory (South Africa 2009, Asia Tour 2014)

Antoine Murray-Straughan (London 2014)

Marcquelle Ward (London 2015, UK Tour 2016)

Jordan Shaw (London 2014)

Ahmad Simmons (Broadway 2016)

Retsu Kanehisa (Shizuoka 2013, Fukuoka 2014)

Takumi Omine (Sapporo 2015, Osaka 2016, Tokyo 2018)

Kenji Nishio (Osaka 2016)

Kazuya Kamikawa (Osaka 2016, Tokyo 2018, Fukuoka 2021)

Mizuki Omori (Tokyo 2018, Fukuoka 2021, Nagoya 2022)

Jin Sakuma (Tokyo 2018, Fukuoka 2021)

Togo Kaminaga (Tokyo 2018, Fukuoka 2021)

Liu Lingfei (China 2012)

DevinRe Lewis Adams (RCCL Cast 12)

Jason Derulo (2019 Movie)

Todrick Hall (US Regional - La Mirada Theatre 2014)

Munkustrap:

Shintaro Sonooka (Tokyo 1983)

Kenkichi Hamahata (Tokyo 1983)

Osami Iino (Tokyo 1995)

Shoichi Fukui (Nagoya 1999, Osaka 2001, Tokyo 2004, Yokohama 2009)

Kiyomichi Shiba (Nagoya 1999, Osaka 2001, Tokyo 2004, Yokohama 2009)

Yuji Aoyama (Nagoya 1999, Tokyo 2004)

Masuo Nonaka (Osaka 2001, Tokyo 2004)

Takashi Saimon (Tokyo 2004)

Yuichi Tamura (Tokyo 2004)

Tsutomu Arakawa (Tokyo 2004)

Shouma Kanzaki (Tokyo 2004)

Kan Muto (Yokohama 2009)

Takamasa Hagiwara (Yokohama 2009, Hiroshima 2012, Sendai 2013, Shizuoka 2013, Sapporo 2015, Osaka 2016)

Hong Gyeong-su (South Korea 2008/2011)

Jordan Shaw (London Revival - Munkustrap Cover)

Yuki Matsushima (Hiroshima 2012, Fukuoka 2014)

Susumu Kato (Fukuoka 2014, Sapporo 2015, Osaka 2016, Tokyo 2018, Nagoya 2022)

Kei Tokuyama (Sapporo 2015, Osaka 2016, Tokyo 2018)

Kenji Nishio (Osaka 2016)

Masaru Kitamura (Tokyo 2018)

Taijun Kanemoto (Tokyo 2018, Fukuoka 2021)

Shinya Iwasaki (Tokyo 2021)

Junpei Wakebe (Tokyo 2021, Nagoya 2022)

Tarquinn Whitebooi (Asia Tour 2014 - Munkustrap Cover)

Xia Zhenkai (China 2012)

Mao Haifei (China 2012 - Munkustrap Cover)

#rum tum tugger #munkustrap #cats the musical

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junkyard-gifs · 2 years

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Rumpelteazer isn't sure if Rumpus Cat or Rumpus Turkey.

... but she thinks she might like to try it.

(Meanwhile, Mungojerrie and Bomba in the background: 😧)

Shiki production, Fukuoka 2021 (X).

#220222 #c: rumpus cat #shiki #c: rumpelteazer #c: munkustrap #c: mungojerrie #c: bombalurina #c: deuteronomy #c: jellylorum #bombalurinaxmungojerrie #munkustrapxrumpus cat #rumpelteazerxrumpus cat

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chaletnz · 3 years

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Japan Early Summer Trip 2021: Yokohama

Just days after arriving back from an exhausting 5 day road trip around Eastern Hokkaido, I began my adventure in Honshu. My alarm sounded at 4.30am getting me up and ready to walk the hour to Niseko train station for the first direct train to Sapporo. It was only 6 minutes before the scheduled train once I reached it, which was a little too close for me – probably because I had stopped to look at a cat and a woodpecker along the way. By 10am I had arrived at New Chitose Airport with just enough time to browse the souvenir shops and get to my gate for a flight to Tokyo. This trip was meant to include Fukuoka, Nagasaki and Nagoya but due to the state of emergency persisting in many prefectures I thought I’d better not risk the cancellation of less popular flight paths so Tokyo was a safe bet, plus I had just received the notice about my US visa appointment so I needed to rush through a medical exam too – which could only be done in Tokyo!

I arrived in the afternoon at Narita airport and took a train into Tokyo city, after narrowly missing it by 2 minutes and having to wait 40 for the next one... Around 3pm I had arrived in Yokohama and was feeling exhausted. My plan had been to walk along the main bay area Minatomirai to my hostel in the Chinatown at the other end however 30 degree heat and wearing long pants meant I was struggling! I made it as far as the Cosmoworld theme park with a huge ferris wheel towering above the main roads underneath and then I had to duck inside the Cup Noodle Museum for some air conditioning. I had intended to browse the museum for what was advertised as 400 yen however I was told this is not an option, I must buy the ticket for 900 yen which includes entry and making my own cup noodle. It reminded me of the cup noodle experience in Osaka which was similarly refused so I just crossed the road to a large mall (also with air conditioning!). The World Porters mall had been an unexpected joy, it was weirdly all Hawaiian themed on this floor with some ice cream shops and cafes and even a bakery called Leonard’s selling malasadas (a kind of Hawaiian donut). One of these could not be resisted so I sat in the food court to enjoy it while watching some hula dancers performing. I mean, I have only been to Hawaii once back in 2015 but I found this mall to be weirdly authentic by Japanese standards of imitating other cultures!

As soon as I stepped foot out of the mall I was met with a stifling hot wave of air that stayed with me all the way to the Red Brick Warehouses. Quite keen to get rid of my bag I only stopped for a few photos and kept walking. Once I had reached my hostel, I found the power to walk another 2 minutes around the corner to Yokohama Coffee Stand to get myself my first coffee of the day – at 4.30pm! It was far too late for coffee under normal circumstances but an iced latte went down a treat on such a long hot day. A kind lady called Mako checked me in and showed me around the hostel, it was a 20 capsule room but only about 5 of us were staying that night. I dumped my heavy backpack, freshened myself up a little and then headed straight back out to explore. The temperature had dropped now that sunset was approaching and there was a nice glow around the bay area so I could take some photos as I walked around. This time I went inside to check out the Red Brick Warehouses and couldn’t help but buy a slice of a delicious looking apple pie from Granny Smith, although when I asked for reheating instructions it got a bit confusing for the cashiers. On my return to the hostel I was searching for a restaurant to have my sweet and sour pork for dinner and began to worry as the ones I had passed by earlier had already closed. The Japanese government was enforcing an 8pm closure on restaurants due to the state of emergency lockdown and it seemed that many were complying here. One woman invited me inside and I accepted, worried I would otherwise not be able to eat at all. My expectations were high but unfortunately it was disappointing, the rice was hard and crispy, the sweet and sour sauce was thick and syrupy and there was a lot of onion in the dish. I ate as much as I could of the pork and vegetables but barely made a dent in the rice, I also didn’t touch the salad or soup they offered. When I got back to the hostel I heated up my apple pie and then crashed into bed soon after. Although I didn’t get much sleep as it turned out the other people in the room were long-term residents and those kinds of people are the worst to stay in hostels with... The guy below me woke up about every hour between 1am and 6am talking to himself and turned on the light, which illuminated my capsule too. The guy opposite was shuffling around in his slippers, cracking open beers at all hours and slurping food loudly. It was frustrating, so when I woke at 7am I let my alarm ring a few times loudly before I turned it off, then made absolutely no attempt to be quiet going about my morning routine. I even repacked my bag early to make the most of rustling plastic bags around – usually I would wait until after breakfast to pack up but hey these special roommates had earned it!

#Japan #Yokohama

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marutsu817 · 3 years

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10月19日〜24日まで、博多阪急8階で開催される「2021まるごと猫フェスティバルin博多」にて、「ネコモノガタリ」と題して猫の作品を60点ほど展示しております。猫が好きな方もそうでない方も是非覗きにいらして下さい😺 From the 19th to the 24th of October at the 8th floor of Hakata Hankyu at the 8th floor of Hakata Hankyu from October 19th to 24th. We will be exhibiting about 60 cat works under the title of "Cat Tales ". Whether you are a cat lover or not, please come and have a look😺 #picturebook #giclee #arttherapy #artstagram #artprint #print #illustration #animalillustration #animalpainting #contemporaryart #animalart #絵画 #現代アート #絵本 #版画 #イラストレーション #アート #美術 #PiezoGraph #fukuoka #博多阪急 #8階催場 #博多阪急イベント #猫のいる暮らし #猫フェス #まるごと猫フェスティバル https://www.instagram.com/p/CVK7HPRPzdn/?utm_medium=tumblr

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katcut-shigemi · 3 years

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✳︎ 2021.7.17.sun. 福岡 LIVEHOUSE CB The Biscats TOUR 2021 Cat’s Style ~complete~ ありがとございました💕 ▷▸▹►▻ Repost ▸▹►▻ @misaki_aono ツアー福岡公演ありがとうございましたー🎉✨ ⁡ 全身全霊、最強に燃え尽きた🔥🔥 ⁡ みんな最高だね、ありがとう🎵 ⁡ #thebiscats #biscats #ビスキャッツ #tour #ツアー #福岡 #fukuoka #live #ライブ #catsstyle #キャッツスタイル (Livehouse CB) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRbtksnnZt2/?utm_medium=tumblr

#thebiscats #biscats #ビスキャッツ #tour #ツアー #福岡 #fukuoka #live #ライブ #catsstyle #キャッツスタイル

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white-cat-of-doom · 8 months

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Two Lupicia tins of tea (weak or strong is up to you!) from the Fukuoka stop in Japan between 2021 and 2022 (and still for sale in Nagoya).

They made a tin with the standard CATS logo and eyes, and a more fun one with Skimbleshanks' Train.

Each tin contains ten teabags, and being the collector I am, the poor things are going to remain sealed past expiry.

#CATS Musical #CATS the Musical #Shiki CATS #CATS Japan #CATS Fukuoka 2021 #Merchandiscial CATS

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andyfrills · 7 years

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Andy’s FanFic Log 28/02/2017

Hello again! This log is a bit shorter than the last since I was away for my cousin’s wedding on the weekend. But I felt the log was at a good point to post, so here we are anyway! Btw I don’t think I mentioned this last time, but feel free to shriek at me about how wonderful fics are/yell at me to read a certain thing. Both are good icebreakers in my opinion and are most welcome in my ask box~!

Fic Count: 20 Fandoms this Log: Yuri!!! on Ice, Voltron

Now onto the customary warnings before we get into it~

I end up reading a lot of random shit. Until I’m a bit more comfortable I might censor a few things out, but there will be explicit fics, darker themes, crazy plots, and insane ships amongst all the sugar and fluff I find around the place. So the really important thing is to carefully read the warnings that I occasionally give & that are on the fic itself, and back away if it’s not for you.

Other posts in this little series can be found under the read fanfiction tag on my page~

Alright! Here we go~!

Yuri!!! on Ice

play that song again, ‘cause we were in love by Piyo13 Words: 1.1k, Rating: Teen, Status: Complete Relationship(s): ChulaCometti (Phichit/Christophe), Victuuri (Viktor Nikiforov/Yuuri Katsuki), Unrequited Vichris & Phichuuri “Of course you are,” Chris replies smoothly. “We’re their best friends and their best men, and look at them. It’d be a crime not to be happy for them.” Phichit raises his eyebrows at the change in person. “So,” he says. “Like recognizes like?”

Very Versatile by Marks Words: 1.8k, Rating: Mature, Status: Complete Relationship(s): ChulaCometti The one where Phichit is really observant when it comes to everything and also Christophe, and Ciao Ciao probably steals a whole tray of mini-pizzas. ~ Not entirely sure of my thoughts on this one. But I kind of liked it, so someone else might enjoy it too.

Now, Take My Hands (Come On) by mintables Words: 3.8k, Rating: No Rating (Mature imo for some sexy times), Status: Complete Relationship(s): ChulaCometti (Along with mentions of other pairs) It begins, as most things in their lives do, at the banquet. Or, Phichit isn’t sure when he began falling for Chris, but maybe he was there the whole time. ~ This is amazing and beautiful! I almost couldn’t stop myself from crying at the fluff. <333

Oh My God, Finally by Halrloprillalar (prillalar) Words: 1.7k, Rating: Explicit, Status: Complete Relationship(s): ChulaCometti, Victuuri At the GPF post-banquet after-party, Chris and Phichit do a little roleplay. ~ The rp was much implemented much better than I was anticipating, but I’m not sure how I feel about the ending. In any case it was still well done so someone else might enjoy it.

Unexpected and Eager by novocaine_sea Words: 3.6k, Rating: Explicit, Status: Complete Relationship(s): ChulaCometti (Anyone guess by now what tag I’ve been going through?) Now that Victor was off with Yuuri, Christophe really had nobody to have fun with after hours. “Christophe!” A cheerful voice called from behind him, almost as if on cue. Christophe turned, champagne flute still twisting in hand. Phichit Chulanont was heading his way with a bright smile on his face. Maybe this banquet wouldn’t be so boring after all. ~ A very sweet lemon~ <3

Liquid Courage by vivaldis_lover Words: 1.5k, Rating: G, Status: Complete Relationship(s): ChulaCometti It’s Phichit’s turn to get drunk at the banquet, but unfortunately for Chris, no pole dancing is involved this year. He will get his reward for taking care of the young skater, though. ~ Just a little bit of drunken fluff <3

Anything Could Happen by Creepikat Words: 7.1k, Rating: Teen, Status: Complete Relationship(s): ChulaCometti, Victuuri, Leo de la Iglasia/Ji Guang-Hong (I have no clue what their ship name is, but they are so cute~~) After two years Viktor and Yuuri finally get married. They rent a Hotel near Detroit, in a beautiful and snowy place. Everyone’s here. The future husbands are idiots. Phichit is a best man. Christophe too. And somehow he’s even more dashing than usual. This is gonna be a merry mess. ~ I love relationship establishing fics like this~ I really love when things like this are continued (alas this is not) but this initial type of fluff gives me life. <33

A Sequence for You by wisia Words: 4.7k, Rating: Teen, Status: Wip Relationship(s): Victuuri Yuuri Katsuki retired from ice skating without any medals or breaking any records. It’s fine. He couldn’t have made it anyway. So, why was Victor Nikiforov asking him to be his coach? ~ This seems like a good roll reversal so far. I think it’ll be interesting to see where it goes.

fire on ice by indianchai Words: 11k, Rating: Teen, Status: Wip Relationship(s): Victuuri All figure skaters were water users. Never in the history of the sport was there professional ice skater that didn’t have water as their elemental affinity. Katsuki Yuri had a well-guarded secret that he can’t have anyone find out about. ~ This is amazing! I love fantasy and mystic type things, so this is right up my alley. Can’t wait to read more!

Remedy by Ishxallxgood Words: 1.8k, Rating: Not Rated (G? Maybe just above for the feels), Status: Complete Relationship(s): Victuuri Those 48 hours these two spent apart were the worst. Viktor finds comfort from that gaping hole in his soul via one Hiroko Katsuki, who loves him as much as she loves her own son. And Yuuri, well Viktor is his remedy, always and forever. ~ A really beautiful hurt/comfort fic <3 Have I mentioned this is a songfic btw?

Turn Backwards on Go by inkwellofstars Words: 5.3k, Rating: Not Rated (G), Status: Wip Relationship(s): Victuuri In which Yuuri and Victor, happily married and retired, find themselves thrown into the past and proceed to mess with everyone. ~ This is a bit of fun, unlike most of the time travel aus which are filled with angst. Can’t wait to see how the two of them are going to continue to mess with everyone!

Only You by quesadiaz Words: 27k, Rating: Teen, Status: Wip Relationship(s): Victuuri In the year 2021, Victor Nikiforov, retired professional figure skater and Number One Husband, steps into a taxi to make his way home from the grocery store, arm full of vegetables and fruits to bring home to his beautiful husband and loyal old dog. A sharp sound and a blur of color is the only warning before Victor wakes up in the year 2016, sitting in a first class seat on an ascending airplane headed for Fukuoka, Japan. ~ I’m mostly enjoying this. A large part of me is just like “I hope everything will be okay T^T” This is also from Yuuri’s pov, a companion fic is going to be released when this one is done.

Gods of Circumstance by Ritequette Words: 15k, Rating: Mature, Status: Wip Relationship(s): Victuuri During his Free Program at the 2016 Barcelona Grand Prix Finals, Yuuri suffers a freak equipment malfunction and falls, hitting his head on the ice.When he wakes up, surprisingly not dead, he finds himself in the last place he expected… the 2015 Sochi Grand Prix Finals. Again.~ Aaaahhhhh, this is an amazing time travel fic! So much feeling! I really want to see how it unfolds.

Dancing Daffodils by greyclouds Words: 40k, Rating: Mature, Status: Wip Relationship(s): Victuuri "As Love gently wipes away the tears that trail down his cheeks something within Victor quakes, its tremors resonating throughout his entire being like a deafening echo. He is in the arms of a god.“ A god falls for a man. ~ I’m really enjoying this one!

I have no heart, for you long ago stole it by exile_wrath Words: 4k, Rating: G, Status: Complete Relationship(s): Victuuri In which Eros, one of the six gods of love, falls for a mortal who thinks he’s unlovable. Or in which Yuuri goes to the Temple of Eros to plea for help and ends up being courted by the god himself instead. ~ An interesting fic to say the least. I kinda wish it went on for longer, just so we could see some more development.

On My Love by RikoJasmine Words: 48k, Rating: Teen, Status: Wip Relationship(s): Victuuri Yuuri often thinks of his life as Before and After Viktor Nikiforov, the marking point being the day Viktor swept into his life and turned his world upside-down. After many years together, an accident leads to Yuuri suddenly waking up in the Before—back in Detroit, before the GPF, before he ever knew Viktor as anything other than his childhood idol. As if it had all been just a dream. ~ Holy shit this fic. I’ve cried a couple of times with it already and I’m really looking forward to reading more! <3

Voltron

An Everglow Feeling by BleuSarcelle Words: 3.4k, Rating: Teen, Status: Wip Relationship(s): Klance (Keith/Lance) The one where Lance acquires magic healing powers for being the first human to be inside a cry-pod and it turns out to be a dangerous thing, especially when said abilities are connected with his energy life force and Keith’s bleeding on his arms. ~ This is good! I’m looking forward to seeing where it goes~!

The Hundred Dollar Bill by AQuinton Words: 7.1k, Rating: G, Status: Complete Relationship(s): Klance, Shallura (Shiro/Allura) Shiro convinced Keith to participate in a date auction for charity and now he has to go on a date with Lance. Lots of fluff and ridiculous text conversations ensue. ~ Very, very cute and fluffy~! I was grinning and loving it the whole way through. <33

Roar by CrzyFun Words: 8.7k, Rating: G, Status: Wip Relationship(s): Blue Lion/Red Lion (Well, that was strange to type - no others so far) Lance met them while surfing just off the coast of Cuba. Hunk met him while helping out at his mothers’ restaurant. Pidge met her while solving puzzles with her brother. Shiro met him after leading his soccer team to victory. Keith… Well, Keith had always known her. Which is why he was completely unsurprised to find out the cats were more than they seemed. ~ Interesting concept and a nice fic so far.

Objects in Motion (When Unbalanced) by Mytay Words: 37k, Rating: Teen, Status: Complete Relationship(s): Klance Lance and Keith are constantly being mistaken for a couple. Lance is highly offended. Keith is quietly outraged. Pidge decides if she can’t have peace, then she can write an epic scientific dissertation on the romantic failings of two exceptionally dense paladins. ~ Very nicely written, well paced, and cute. It left me with a rather contented feeling, and it’s definitely one I’d recommend over and over. <3

#fanfiction #read fanfiction #yuri on ice #voltron #not as many fandoms today ^^;#victuuri #chulacometti #phichit x chris #klance #shallura #writing #my stuff #and by that i mean my log #fic rec

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micaramel · 5 years

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Takuro Tamayama

Artists: Takuro Tamayama, Tiger Tateishi

Venue: Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles

Exhibition Title: Takuro Tamayama and Tiger Tateishi

Date: July 27 – August 31, 2019

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Takuro Tamayama, Eclipse, 2019, digital video, 19:00 loop

Full gallery of images, videos, press release and link available after the jump.

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Takuro Tamayama, Dance, 2019, digital video, 1:00 loop

Takuro Tamayama, Eclipse, 2019, digital video, 19:00 loop

Images courtesy of Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles

Press Release:

Nonaka-Hill is pleased to present a two-artist exhibition, Takuro Tamayama and Tiger Tateishi. The show features a new installation, video and sculpture works by Takuro Tamayama, brought together with Tiger Tateishi’s large oil painting Rotating Fuji from 1991 and selected prints dating from 1973-1981.

Takuro Tamayama and Tiger Tateishi, while generations apart, share penchants for surprising fantasy narrative works depicting evolutions of our planet and others, often through the anthropomorphism of common objects. While both artists engage a repertory of domestic symbols, always colorful and often spinning, Tamayama’s work appears distinctively spare and Tateishi’s work is distinctively baroque.

At the gallery entrance, Takuro Tamayama’s new monochrome yellow video Dance plays on a monitor, bathed in blue light from the underside of a semi-circular table. On the tabletop, a sculpture of a sandwich linked to a hamburger stands upright on a plate, looking “human”. The one-minute video shows a choreography of six rotating gold rocks, swirling into a configuration resembling one body as we know it (head/torso/ two arms/ two legs), then repositioning in three pairs, suggesting three even-more rudimentary bodies (head/body), all nodding, before all exit stage left/right. Adjacent, Tiger Tateishi’s Planets Blossom silkscreen presents a narrative image sequence of round planets cracking, transforming into rose planets. A red curtain leads to Tamayama’s colored light-saturated room scale immersive experience entitled Eclipse Dance (2019). A cluster of tables forms a new Pangea-like plateau, dividing the atmosphere’s light into intense red above and hazy blue below. A rotating veined white marble form, again evocative of a human, is positioned with tense relationship to a spherical form, evocative of a celestial body – perhaps a sun, or a moon. In the next space, Tamayama’s Eclipse, a new large-scale video projection with sound composed by the artist, presents well-known objects of domesticity (especially cleaning), cast into a weightless and elastic, unknown space. This atmosphere is also a narrative which shifts to reveal the silhouette of Tamayama’s rudimentary figure slowly eclipsing a hazy planet, all set to a repeating, trance-inducing stanza. A fourth space, saturated with blue light, presents Tamayama’s spinning red monochrome sculpture of a hanging, double-headed mop whose fiber string head has fully transitioned into long red, human hair. This rotating work confronts Tateishi’s comic-strip format painting Rotating Fuji (1991), which is lit precariously by white light imposed into the blue atmosphere. The painting depicts six views of Mt. Fuji tumbling outside the window of room, occupied by scampering furniture, all set within grids of floral wallpaper and marble. A fifth room, painted yellow, displays Tateishi’s prints dating from 1973 to 1981. Each of these works show a fantasy of planet formation, evolution and/or anthropomorphic transformation.

Takuro Tamayama: Attracted to the narratives which common objects can create in relationship with each other, Tamayama began staging objects and sculpture in room scaled installations as early as 2012. These immersive environments offer no linear means to comprehend Tamayama’s narrative, rather the environment is the decentralized narrative of symbols. Often, tools of the mundane rituals of cleaning and grooming abandoned of its designated role anthropomorphize into alien objects. In absence of human presence, the mop, an abstracted marble figure, hybrid hamburger and sandwich statue, and combs imbedded in irregular concrete forms, all having some human resonance, occupy the human void. In his recent works, Tamayama has utilized curtains to reorganize the space experience, and colored lights to saturate and destabilize the visual senses. He produces long-form video and music, adding to the time and non-materiel dynamics of these constructed spaces. Tamayama’s new video installation, Eclipse is inspired by Tateishi’s fascination with aliens, UFOs and outer space, as both artists construct alternate dimensions of illusions and fantasy.

Takuro Tamayama was born in 1990, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. He lives and works in Tokyo. Tamayama was awarded first place in Aichi University of the Arts, 2012 Class Bachelors of Fine Art Graduate Project, 2013. Tamayama received a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2015. He is the recipient of Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2015 Shigeo Goto Award. Tamayama’s developing oeuvre includes installations, video, music, wall-based and sculptural works, as well as collaborative installation projects for Nike and the fashion brand, Zucca. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Japan including recent solo shows, Dirty Palace at Calm & Punk Gallery, 2018 and They Hardly Ever Stand Still at Talion Gallery, 2019, both in Tokyo. This is Tamayama’s first exhibition outside of Japan.

Tiger Tateishi: Enchanted by Disney cartoons and American movies in his youth, Tiger Tateishi was later drawn to Mad Magazine and stories by science fiction authors, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, and Robert Sheckley. He began his art career in 1963, producing “Pop Art” paintings from a Japanese point of view, colliding Japan’s iconic Mt. Fuji, Godzilla, and Samurai together with international icons such as Mao Tse Tung, an atomic mushroom cloud, MAD Magazine’s Alfred E. Neuman, Coca-Cola, the American Western landscape and KKK processions. To parody the tourism initiatives of the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, Tateishi founded The Institute of Tourist Art (1964-66), creating works which operated off the Mt. Fuji as beloved national symbol and tourism moneymaker. His first solo exhibition of the same year was titled Accumulated Civilization, an idea which echoes through his oeuvre.

With the desire to draw “nonsense cartoons”, then unpopular in Japan, Tateishi and his wife Fumiko left for Milan in 1969, drawn to the city of Futurism. Notably, their move was concurrent with other new frontiers felt globally; Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and the Apollo 11 first moon landing. As a consummate absorber of his surroundings, Tateishi met Giorgio de Chirico (whose perspectival style he had appropriated earlier in 1964) and merged de Chirico-style images into a new storyboard sequencing in his paintings. This format, usually only seen in comics, proved ideal for making paintings of Sci-Fi narratives. An employee of Ettore Sottsass’s saw these works and introduced the architect/designer to Tateishi and an extraordinary group of drawings were produced setting Sottsass’s early proposals for fantastical and erotic architectural forms in outer space terrains. While attributed to Sottsass, these works are often signed “Tiger pinxit”, Latin for “Tiger painted it”. Tateishi also started making silkscreen prints from the early 1970s in Milan, a selection of which are on view. These works, and Rotating Fuji incorporate the story-board format which Tateishi continued to utilize in paintings, drawings and artist’s books throughout his career.

Tiger (Kōichi) Tateishi was born in 1941, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. He passed away in 1998. He received a degree from Musashino University Junior College of Art and Design in 1963. Tateishi’s vast oeuvre includes oil painting, prints, comics, illustration, children’s books, and ceramics. Since 1963, the artist has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Japan, Europe, and the United States. After his death, two retrospectives were organized: Tiger Tateishi: The Endless Tiger at Tagawa City Art Museum, 1999 and Metamorphose Tiger: Walking through the Labyrinth with Tiger Tateishi, O Museum,1999 (cat.). Tateishi was featured in a two-artist shows, The World is Strange! The Manga and painting of Tiger Tateishi and Yuichi Yokoyama, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2017. Recent group exhibitions include Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant Garde, 2012; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Japanorama: A New Vision on Art Since 1970,Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2018. A touring Tateishi survey exhibition is planned for 2020/2021 appearing at Chiba City Museum of Art, Aomori Museum of Art, Takamatasu Art Museum and The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama.

Link: Takuro Tamayama, Tiger Tateishi at Nonaka-Hill

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A small silver print T-shirt meant for plush toys, initially available in the Fukuoka 2021 stop in Japan. These miniscule shirts were meant to copy the human sized ones available at the same time, so you and your best stuffed friend could be matching buddies, before or after the show!

Judging by the size of the item, it might not fit the plush Cats made for the Tokyo run, but it is hard to say. They seem more fitting to a certain other character plush released in Fukuoka.

#CATS Musical #CATS the Musical #Shiki CATS #CATS Japan #CATS Fukuoka 2021 #This is one of those impulse buys because I have little use for it and it was expensive for what it is #But it is silly and cute so why not

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I posted 2,327 times in 2022

827 posts created (36%)

1,500 posts reblogged (64%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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@cassandra-has-moonlit-eyes

I tagged 2,321 of my posts in 2022

#cats the musical - 2,288 posts

#cats musical - 2,287 posts

#cats us tour 6 - 356 posts

#jellylorum - 262 posts

#victoria - 260 posts

#demeter - 253 posts

#bombalurina - 247 posts

#cats rccl cast 12 - 244 posts

#cats uk tour 2022 - 232 posts

#cats international tour 2022 - 230 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#part of me wants to change my avatar to one of these pieces but i cannot bring myself to take away the 2019 rumple i have had for two years

My Top Posts in 2022:

Today is the day! The Il Sistina production of CATS opens tonight (07 December 2022) in Rome!

Below are some more specific character photos, outside of larger group photos.

Jacopo Pelliccia as Gatto Giò (Bustopher Jones, a separate character in this production).

Photos taken by Gianluca Sarago.

Gaia Soprano as Cassandra.

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Everyone generally knows what the Rumpus Cat looks like in traditional productions, right? A bit silly, with funky hair and red eyes.

Meanwhile in Japan, the modern Rumpus Cat looks like this:

The hero we never knew we needed.

(Fukuoka 2021, January 2022; Kenshin Mori as Rumpus Cat, Miki Okudaira as Jellylorum, Eiko Kataoka as Rumpleteazer, Yuki Takahashi as Old Deuteronomy, Taijun Kanemoto as Munkustrap, and Yurie Sato as Bombalurina. Almost fully hidden is Haruaki Tamai as Mungojerrie.)

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Rehearsals have started for the production of CATS at Teatro Sistina in Italy, starting 07 December 2022, an officially licensed non-replica from RUG.

The designs are interesting in that they have reference sheets for both the makeup and costume.

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The promotional pictures for the UK/International Tour 2022 have been posted!

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My #1 post of 2022

I never uploaded these pictures last year, so I figured now would be a fun time to celebrate Pride Month again. Who better than with my favourite cast of Cats in Vienna?

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Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

#It has been a good year for me and CATS #I luckily got to see the last cast three times and the current cast (only) once #An interesting breakdown here #I would have thought I created more posts but 36% is much higher than the 3% last year!#Plus I reblogged from myself a fair amount which lessens those numbers compared to making a new post altogether #Jellylorum being the top character tag is actually a bit surprising to me #But good for me for pulling that off #Poor Jenny was in enough posts #I had completely forgotten about that top post but that is fun to see #Aside from myself being in the top 5 (I would not thought I counted towards that) the reblogged blogs the list is not surprising at all #And that longest tag! It did not take long after for me to overhaul (as much as you can overhaul on mobile) my appearance to change my icon #To one of the beautiful art pieces of my OC Freya that Jemi created and I would not have it any other way now #Thank you again Jemi for creating those #You are too kind and immensely talented and that is why you were obviously going to be my most reblogged blog #Apologies to anyone who gets tagged and would rather not for a post like this #I guess the main point to all of this is to say thank you to everyone who interacts with this blog and to anyone who makes content #Enjoy your passions and interests and maybe someone else will love it alongside you but at the very least you are making it for yourself #Let me see if I can overtake my reblogged posts with my created posts next year #I think I am well on my way #I hope I offered everyone some fun posts and up to date information on the musical as the (official) unofficial source for everything CATS #(that last one is more a joke but at this point how much of one is the question?)#Rambling over #Thanks for everything everyone #Who knows maybe I will actually have something important to say next year

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