Raffish Crew

The Raffish Crew are Growltiger's Pirate crew. They appear in Gus' dream sequence, "Growltiger's Last Stand". This sequence was cut from the 1998 movie.

The Crew
In the London production, the pirate crew consisted of Rum Tum Tugger, Skimbleshanks, Munkustrap, Mistoffelees, Victor, and George. However, this varies occasionally with Alonzo replacing Victor.

Other productions have five rather than six crew, made up of Munkustrap, Mistoffelees, Skimbleshanks, Tugger, and Alonzo. Despite Tumblebrutus being named as the Bo'sun in the poem, the role is played by Munkustrap and it seems the ensemble character Tumblebrutus has never been part of the crew.

Lyrics
Now on a peaceful summer night, all nature seemed at play, The tender moon was shining bright, the barge at Molesey lay. All in the balmy moonlight it lay rocking on the tide-- And Growltiger was disposed to show his sentimental side.

His bucko mate, GRUMBUSKIN, long since had disappeared, For to the Bell at Hampton he had gone to wet his beard; And his bosun, TUMBLEBRUTUS, he too had stol'n away- In the yard behind the Lion he was prowling for his prey.

In the forepeak of the vessel Growltiger sate alone, Concentrating his attention on the Lady GRIDDLEBONE. And his raffish crew were sleeping in their barrels and their bunks-- As the Siamese came creeping in their sampans and their junks...