UK Tour 2016/Score

The 2016 UK Tour was based off the London Revival.

General features of the score:


 * Babygriz is in the opening and Alonzo is the cat who swings on the trapeze
 * The Gumbie trio sing Munkustrap's second verse with him


 * Rumpleteazer is the screaming kitten at the end of "The Rum Tum Tugger"


 * Jellylorum and Jemima's lines are cut in the Grizabella reprise
 * Old Duet remains on stage during intermission and audience members are allowed to take pictures with him and get an up close look at the set


 * Mistoffelees does not sing in his song


 * Munkustrap does most of the fighting against Macavity, and Demeter comforts Munkustrap after the fight

Changes towards the end of the 2016 Run:


 * The ensemble echoed Demeter's alarmed cry of "Macavity?!" (kept in the international run too)

Changes from the 2017 Run:


 * Street Cat Tugger was reverted to the original Rockstar version


 * "Pekes and Pollicles" in Act 1 was replaced by a short "Macavity" preview based on the Broadway revival score, but sung by Demeter and Bombalurina instead of all the queens. The Macavity preview ends with Bombalurina saying "like a snake", and the ensemble echoing her. The cats (except Old Deuteronomy and Munkustrap) then run off the stage, and this leads to the Jellicle Ball sequence.


 * "Macavity" preview lyrics:

Demeter:

"He's a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity"

Bombalurina:

"He hypnotizes with his eyes, his head sways like a snake, like a snake, Like a snake"


 * "Pekes and Pollicles" replaces "Growltiger's Last Stand" in Act 2, as a performance by Gus, Munkustrap, and the ensemble. After Gus reminisces about playing the Great Rumpus Cat, Old Deuteronomy tells him that he could do it again, and so the cats help Gus relive his glory days. The reprise of "Gus, the Theatre Cat" that followed "Growltiger's Last Stand", as the audience were brought out of the flashback and back into the present, is cut, as this version of "Pekes and Pollicles" is not a flashback scene; it's when Gus gets to play the Great Rumpus Cat one last time.

Gus:

"And I once played the Rumpus Cat..."

Old Deuteronomy:

"...could do it again!"

Gus:

"Could do it again?"

Ensemble:

"Could do it again!"

Gus:

"... I could do it again!"


 * The "heathen Chinese" line in the Pekes and the Pollicles was replaced with "foreign Chinese"


 * There is no reprise of "Gus: The Theatre Cat" at the end of Gus' performance. Instead, he receives a bouquet of flowers from Jellylorum, bows and soaks in the audience applause and is then guided offstage.


 * Grizabella ascends to the Heaviside Layer via a flying harness