Berlin 2002

Berlin 2002
Location	Theater am Potzdamer Platz
Opening Date	October 2002
Closing Date	January 2004
Set Used	NAP 15
Production Team
Producers	Stage Entertainment
Associate Director	Chrissie Cartwright

Cats played in Berlin from 20th October 2002 - 30th January 2004.

Production Specifics

After Hamburg and Stuttgart, Berlin was the third German production of the show. The costumes were developed from the Hamburg/Stuttgart designs and began to show UK design influences, while they used the UK designs for the wigs and make-up. For Berlin, the show was retranslated by Michael Kunze (who wrote the 80's Vienna translation) and the score as well as the choreography was updated and very similar to the final London version. Berlin was the first German version to include Electra. It was the first German production that had Chrissie Cartwright as Associate Director.

Berlin used the NAP 15 set, which had already been used in Antwerp (Belgium) and Stuttgart before.

It was not the first time Cats played in Berlin. The 1987 Vienna cast previously performed at the Komische Oper in East-Berlin as a short guest appearance during the Vienna summer break.

Theatre

The Berlin cast of Cats played at the Theater am Potsdamer Platz which is the venue of the annual Berlin International Film Festival.

Creative team

• Director / Associate Choreographer: Chrissie Cartwright
• Choreographer: Gillian Lynne
• Assistant Director/Choreographer: Jennifer Sawyer
• Music Supervisor: Daniel Bowling
• Costume Supervisor: Armin Werner
• Make-up Designer: Karen Dawson
• Resident Director: Kaye Brown
• Dance Captain: Jacqueline Dunnley-Wendt
• Assistant Dance Captain: Mark John Richardson
• Translation: Michael Kunze
• Associate Set Designer: Christoph Weyers (after John Napier; altering an existing set by Raymond Huessy)
• Artistic Director: F. Dion Davis

Cast

Following the closure of the London production in May 2002, several cast members transferred directly into the same roles in this production: most notably John Partridge as Rum Tum Tugger, Benjamin Tyrrell as Mistoffelees, and Jack Rebaldi as Munkustrap, in addition to several smaller roles or swings from the last few years of the London production. Mark John Richardson also joined as Pouncival, having last played Carbucketty in London 2000.

Role	October 2002	July 2003	November 2003
Alonzo / Rumpus Katz	Zoltán Ádok		Paul Stampehl
Asparagus / Bustopher Mürr / Growltiger	Jeff Shankley		Ethan Freeman (from August 2003)
Bombalurina	Sabine Hettlich		Natacza Soozie Boon
Cassandra	Constanze Möricke
Coricopat	Sanny Roumimper (until July 2003)		Anton Perez
Demeter	Lada Kummer (until July 2003)		Susa Meyer
Electra	Tiziana Doneda
Grizabella	Cornelia Drese (until May 2003)	Nadja Solovieva	Cornelia Drese (from Nov 2003)
Jellylorum / Griddlebone	Tersia Potgieter
Jenny Fleckenfell / Gumbie Katz	Nadja Solovieva	Colleen Besett	Nadja Solovieva (from Nov 2003)
Mistoffelees	Benjamin Tyrrell
Mungojerrie	Markus Giess
Munkustrap	Jack Rebaldi (until March 2003)	Rüdiger Reschke (from April 2003)
Old Deuteronomy	Anton Rattinger
Plato / Macavity	Gido Schimanski
Pouncival	Mark John Richardson
Rum Tum Tugger	John Partridge
Rumpleteazer	Roimata Templeton		Selma Rudalics
Sillabub	Leah delos Santos	Julia Berger (from Dec 2002)
Skimbleshanks	Uli Scherbel
Tantomile	Karin Sang
Tumblebrutus	Scott Owen	Thomas Margies	Scott Owen
Victoria	Bridie Rack
cover Grizabella			Roimata Templeton
Booth	Patricia Gressley		Colleen Besett
Booth	Christiane Heinke		Francesca Taverni
Booth	Steffen Friedrich		LaSinga Koloamatangi
Booth	Lachlan Youngberg
Swing	Natalie Holtom
Swing	Tanja-Maria Meier
Swing	Elena Margarolo
Swing	Roswitha Stadlmann
Swing	Dimitri Frid
Swing	Michael Knese
Swing	Romeo Salazar
Swing	Paul Stampehl
Swing	Stephan Zenker
Swing	Nils Olof Sundberg
Swing		Friedrich Bührer (from Jan 2003)
Swing		LaSinga Koloamatangi (from Jan 2003)
Swing		Scott Owen
Swing		Yvonne Ritz Andersen (Sep 2003)
Swing			Zoltán Ádok
Swing			Jacqueline Dunnley-Wendt
Swing			Michelle Marier
Swing			Sheila Kaminski (from Sep 2003)

Gallery

Performance

Bows

Press

Bridie Rack (Victoria), Jack Rebaldi (Munkustrap) and Sabine Hettlich (Bombalurina)

Portraits/Backstage

Cast List 2003

Videos

Jellicle Ball - Berlin 2002

Macavity - Berlin 2002