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Revising Character Infobox
The thought is to add an "Alternate Versions of this Character" - to include the 2019 Movie character pages, to incorporate Street Cat Tugger more smoothly, help untangle Pouncival/Carbucketty and Jemima/Sillabub etc etc etc. There's already "Also known as" - which seems to suit the translations better than the alternate versions.

Last time I tried to change the infobox it broke entirely and I had to re-do the whole category...

So, I've tried to add a "Alternate Versions" to the template, and it's not showing up. Yet? Is this a cached data issue?

Edit: Ok, now it's showing up, so I guess it was a cache problem!

Main Page Column Tags
Experimenting with the Cats Movie Content, adding Twitter feed.

Production


The project is adapted by Lee Hall, with choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler - originally announced to be Wayne McGregor who withdrew due to scheduling conflicts. Tom Hooper and Steven Spielberg act as producers for the film.

The project was first rumored in December 2013 in the Guardian, and more recently took hold in May 2016 by Variety , and little has been heard while the project has been in development. Both Anne Hathaway and Rihanna were considered for roles, but ultimately passed because of scheduling conflicts.

Andrew Lloyd Webber announced in January 2018 he was writing a new song for the film, to be sung by Victoria the White Cat. This would make the movie score eligible for the Oscars.

Hooper has cited "astonishing new technology to transform his cast members into a breathtaking, vivid new vision of one of the most beloved musicals of all time.” The set includes practical props, however, as referenced in a studio visit. Jason Derulo stated that "'Cats' uses motion-capture and other technology will be like nothing viewers have seen before." Idris Elba confirmed in an interview that the cast would not be wearing traditional costumes, relying on CGI instead.

Fiona Grace McDougal served as a vocal coach on set.

Rehearsals began in September 2018. Principal photography began on December 12, 2018, and wrapped March 2019.



  

First Trailer
The first official trailer for the film was released on July 18, 2019 at San Diego Comic Con to a passionate, largely negative response to the CGI appearance of the characters.

Useful Codes

 * How much of this is broken in the FandomDesktop? Belle pullman (talk) 13:35, 1 June 2021 (UTC) 

Collapsible Text
Related to the collapsible tables, funnily enough, but when you don't want to use a table to be able to hide text...

This text is not collapsible; but the next is collapsible and hidden by default: This text should be hidden by default. This text should be visible as well.

Neat table code for addresses etc:
'' any difference now? ''

Closed Table code:
Including "+ heading" seems to break it? Oh well. Tends to be redundant anyway. Belle pullman (talk) 15:54, 14 July 2021 (UTC)

Splitting Galleries

 * Demeter/Gallery1980s
 * Demeter/Gallery1990s
 * Demeter/Gallery2000s
 * Demeter/Gallery2010s

Gallery Stuff
Button:

I find it useful to copy and paste the middle, the close/open, when breaking up a big gallery into smaller, faster loading sections.

As of June 2021, new formatting is coming... it's going to take some work to get our pages looking smooth again under the new system. The good news - the standard |Wikipedia-style formatting should be functional. But we need to find the best style to act as a guide across all pages.... and we got a lot, a LOT of galleries. I don't think we can adopt a "One size fits all" approach - different gallery tags will be needed on character pages, to the full galleries.


 * We should take this opportunity to update and improve the quality of the galleries - better, more informative captions, re-ordering images in an intuitive and easy way such as grouping backstage images together.
 * expand="true" seems to be irrelevant now - galleries no longer collapse automatically with a "see more" button. Yay.
 * Previously the best policy has been many short gallery tags - dividing the material into small bites that load easily. But going forward will the data bottleneck still be a problem; will the aesthetic be smoother with galleries containing more, captioned images?
 * mode=packed results in a centred, compact, space efficient gallery.
 * Adding a "Height" requirement controls the dimensions of the thumbnails - more visually pleasing than standardising the widths. The trouble is, when defining as specific pixel value, what displays best on all the different resolution screens?

I'm thinking, so far, that on pages like Bombalurina, the height tag is necessary as it seems slim portrait images are going to be rendered very small indeed - but the landscape orientation images adjust automatically quite well. The full production gallery, I'm not happy so far - dumping all the act 2 images into one gallery is a LOT to try to read. It makes much more sense to split them into individual musical numbers. But then the layout isn't at all pleasing, it distracts from the images.

There are more options, of course, so if you want to add please do!

Belle pullman (talk) 13:23, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Example Test - Bombalurina Illustrations
Refer to Bombalurina to compare the un-altered version.

Appearance 

Bombalurina is a striking red queen with a white chest and black spots and marks, generally considered to be a very stylised tabby and white. She is one of the most eye-catching queens, being tall, elegant and self-possessed. She is generally portrayed as an adult, who occasionally exhibits kittenish behavior. She wears a black spiked, jeweled collar, and gloves rather than arm warmers.

She is a very sensual cat, dancing suggestively around the Toms who find her as attractive as the females do Tugger. She is often referred to as the 'Bombshell Cat'.

Example Test - Hamburg 1997

 * This is the default gallery

Zurich Casts
It's a bit of a mess atm.

1992
First night, first cast change, January 1992:

April 1992 cast list may be for specific performance, no swings listed. Cast Change occurred in August 1992.

Left in August:
 * Niki Ankenbrand - Tantomile - Leslie Unger?
 * Matt Baker - Tumblebrutus - David Ladd?
 * Rory Campbell - Gus - Brian Noonan
 * Brian Carmack - Tugger - Rod Weber
 * Michael Estes - Skimbleshanks - Theodor Reichardt
 * Simona Ferrari - Swing -
 * Bruce Harris - Swing -
 * Adam Richard Jones - Coricopat - Jeff Lander
 * Maryanne Kelly - Jellylorum -
 * Andie Mellom - Bombalurina - Jina Broughten
 * Alexander Riff - Plato -
 * Gene Scheer - Walking Cover -
 * Kristi Sperling - Rumpleteazer - Maria Jo Ralabate
 * Patrick Kaestli - Swing? -

Joined in August:
 * New Grizabella - Katherine Condit
 * Cori? Swing? - Neil Giroday
 * Swing? - Cynthia Amirgholi
 * Pouncival? Swing? - Raymond Chai
 * Swing (cover Munk) - David Ladd
 * Swing? Jenny? - Pamela Lloyd
 * swing? cover Jemima? -Anna Montanaro
 * swing - Ilya Parenteau
 * Deut? Walking Cover -Monte Ralstin
 * Swing - Leslie Unger
 * Booth? - Tatjana Gazdik
 * ?? - Lai Mun

Joined in late 1992: Joanie O' Neill (Bombalurina), Ramona Ludwig

1993
7th February cast specific to that performance- covers unknown.

Left in Jan/Feb:
 * Cynthia Amirgholi - swing? -
 * Brian Carmack - Swing? cover Tugger? -
 * Kevin Bogue - Misto - Andrew Hunt
 * John Treacy Egan -
 * Kati Farkas - Swing? (or Demeter?) -
 * Tatjana Gazdik - Booth?
 * David Kent - Alonzo - John DePue
 * Jeff Lander - Coricopat - Matthew Jessner
 * Michael Larsen-Disney -
 * Marisol Morales - Griz
 * Monte Ralstin - Walking cover - Gene Scheer
 * Theodor Reichardt - Skimble - Kevin Michael Burrows
 * Angela Savage - Victoria -
 * Gene Scheer - ? (became walking cover^ )
 * Mark Taylor - Mungojerrie - Lee Smilek
 * Rod Weber - Tugger - Brian Carmack


 * Swing (Cass, Tant, Vicky) - Shannon Hammons
 * Macavity - Rüdiger Reschke
 * Demeter - Simona Ferrari
 * Jellylorum - Maryanne Kelly


 * Band-keys - Paul Honey