The St. Louis MUNY & The Kansas City Starlight

2004

CATS

Executive Producer: Paul Blake
Production Direction: Suzanne Viverito
Set Design: Steve Gilliam
Costume Design: Robert Fletcher
Lighting Design: Mitch Dana

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SCENIC FLOW

The following is a preliminary scenic flow document for discussion. 3/19/04

Act One

1. Overture

2. Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats
Introduces Cats as company explores and uses environment
Choir Risers around Tire … 25 Cats
Large Shoe Drops (2'-0" x 2'-0")
Trapezee

3. The Naming of Cats
Ballet
Back Follow Spot

4. Old Gumbie Cat
Car Trunk Opens to reveal Gumbie Cat asleep
4 mice heads … COSTUMES
12 Beetle Costumes
12 prop 3-4' knives, spoons and forks (military)

5. The Rum Tum Tiger
Elvis number
Prop Cat Needle Point (large calendar size)
Entry of Grizabela

6. Bustopher Jones
Prop Large Spoon about 36" or a golf club length. Uses as riding crop.
Costume Monocle?
Large flower for boutonniere which he takes off and gives away. Then, it is used as a fan.
Prop Top hat Seat.

6a. Intro to Mungojerrie & Rumpelteazer Tacet
Prop … a large Police Notice … MACAVITY Wanted for Everything. Blows away.

7. Mungojerrie & Rumpleteazer
Prop. 2 prison striped pillow case burglar bags.

8. Old Deuteronomy
Sits on Tire Throne

9. The Battle of the Pekes & The Polliciles
Two different styles of Dog costumes… not props
Prop. Bag Pipe. Made of soft oversized football with candy canes
Great Rumpus Cats shoots up through trap door (scripted). Video had him jumping onstage from backstage.
Rumpus has "trick" red eye glasses. I assume this is costumes. With trick wig.
Macavity entrance.

10. Song of the Jellicels and Thye Jellicle Ball
Background w/Stars and throughout the junk yard.

11. Grizabella the Glamour Cat
Back Follow Spot

ACT BREAK … INTERMISSION

ACT TWO

12. Moments of Happiness
Return of the cats to space.
Gus enters and sits on oil can

13. Gus: The Theatre Cat
Video had an imaginary actor as Firefrofiddle, the Fiend of the Fell.

Video cut all of 14 and went straight to 15.

Scripted…
14. Growltiger's Last Stand - Part 1I assume this is the pirate ship.

14A Ballard of Billy M'Caw.
Takes place in a bar. Props? Scenery?

14B Growltiger's Last Stand - Part 2
(Signal to Mongolian Horde … w/frightful burst of fireworks (pyro???) Siameses swarmed aboard, abandening their sampans, their pullaways and junks.
They battened down the hatches on the crew within their bunks)
"Walk the Plank"

14C Gus the Theatree Cat Reprise

Back to video flow

15. Skimleshanks: The Railway Cat
Create a train on stage. 6' dia hoop front and back with 10-12' red china silk. Hole cut in top for functional smoke stack. Bottom of silk tube is open for actors to walk. Four 5' dia bicycle wheels for train wheels w/ 2' shaft for actors to spin wheels. Four 2' dia pan lids as front train wheels with shaft to spin wheel. 2 4' long pvc pipes w/pluggers like a train piston. Black 6' dia umbrella. Large box battery operated train light. (used later as a follow spot).

16. Macavity: The Mystery Cat
Red Cat eye lights.
Strobes
Prop Fish net to capture Deuteronomy
2 back follow spots

16A. Macavity Fight
Macavity enters disguised in Deuteronomy coat.
Ballet fight.
Prop oversized battery jumper cables with pyro.
Prop flash light … train light

17. Magical Mister Mistoffeless
Mistoffeless flies in
3" hole in car trunk to pull 12'x12' red china silk cover through
Red tail light in car trunk
Pyro
&Mac183; 1 Mickey Finger Flash
&Mac183; 2 Mickey Finger
&Mac183; 3 Mickey finger
&Mac183; DSL Flash and Smoke
&Mac183; MSL in Junk Flash and Smoke
&Mac183; USR high in junk flash and smoke
&Mac183; DSR in tires flash and smoke
Prop 14" coffee cup w/multicovered scarf… 5 yds by 12" WIDE w/glitter.

18. Memory

19. Journey to the Heaviside Layer
Dry Ice and Fog
Tire rises up
Claw arm with steps folds down for Griz to walk up

20. The Ad-dressing of Cats

21. Finale 1

22. Finale 2

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