My Broadway Experience
Here are all the photos I took on my various trips to New York to see Cats. They are in no particular order because all my photos got mixed up and it would take too long to put them back in order. These are from June 14, 2000 (my first time ever in NY) thru September 10, 2000. I would like to thank Mandakay and Whitney for taking some of these pictures. Hope you enjoy :)
**updated June 29**
I found some pics from last September that I hadn't put up yet so now they are up!
Theaters
Miss Saigon at the Broadway Theater
Swing! at the St. James Theater
Beauty and the Beast at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater
Cabaret at Studio 54
Chicago at the Sam S. Shubert Theater
Footloose at the Richard Rodgers Theater
Fosse at the Broadhurst Theater
Jesus Christ Superstar at the Ford Center
Kiss Me Kate at the Martin Beck Theater
Les Miserables at the Imperial Theater
The Lion King at the New Amsterdam Theater
The Phantom of the Opera at the Majestic Theater
Saturday Night Fever at the Minskoff Theater
Cats at the Winter Garden Theater
*More Theatres coming soon*
My favorite Mungojerrie ever :) Roger Kachel!
Roger signing autographs
Roger signing autographs again
Roger posing for a pic with a fan
Roger hugging someone
Roger posing adorably for my camera :)
Me and Roger
Me assuming the position (if you don't know what I'm talking about I'm not gonna tell you)
Me again assuming the position as I did every time I saw the show :)
You are probably wondering what that means and you are assuming it has to do with Roger since I put it under this section but I'm still not gonna tell :)
The Cast signing autographs and stuff
Jean Arbeiter (Jellylorum/Griddlebone)
Marlene Danielle (Bombalurina & original castmember)
Patrick Mullaney (Tumblebrutus)
Billy Johnstone (Coricopat)
Jeffry Denman (Munkustrap)
Keith Wilson (Plato/Macavity/Rumpus Cat)
Sharon Wheatley (Jennyanydots)
Stephen Bienske (Rum Tum Tugger)
Linda Balgord (Grizabella)
Jessica Dillan (Sillabub)
Lenny Daniel (Alonzo)
Maria Jo Ralabate (Rumpleteazer)
Matthew Vargo (Swing)
James Hadley (Skimbleshanks)
Jonathan Taylor (Swing)
Melissa Rae Mahon (Cassandra)
Joel Briel (Cats Chorus)
Jimmy Lockett (Old Deuteronomy) smiling at the camera
Gayle Holsman (Demeter) and Lenny Daniel (Alonzo)
Maria Jo Ralabate (Rumpleteazer) and Billy Sprague (Swing)
Jean Arbeiter (Jellylorum/Griddlebone)
Jeffry Denman (Munkustrap)
Billy Johnstone (Coricopat)
Melissa Rae Mahon (Cassandra)
Patrick Mullaney (Tumblebrutus)
Stephen Bienske (Rum Tum Tugger)
Linda Balgord came out in her Grizabella makeup to sign a few
Linda again
Linda waves at the camera before she goes back inside
Lenny being interviewed for a news program
Lenny being interviewed again
June 23, 2000 Cats fan party
Gintora with Jon Erik, Lenny and Dasha in the background
Keith, Lenny, Julius and Jon Erik posing for a picture with Rio looking on
Julius chatting with fans
Julius, Bombalurina aka Dasha and Jon Erik posing for a picture
Lenny chatting with fans
Lenny, Sunshcat and Chessnamoon giving backrubs
Me and Mandakay with the cast
Me and Billy Johnstone (Mungojerrie that night)
Me and Tesha Buss (Rumpleteazer in June)
Me and Lenny Daniel (Alonzo)
Manda, Me and Julius Sermonia (Mistoffelees)
Me and Gayle Holsman (Demeter)
Me and Stephen Bienske (Rum Tum Tugger) Isn't he a cutie!?
Me and Patrick Mullaney (Tumblebrutus) One of my favorites :)
Me and James Hadley (Skimbleshanks)
Kurt von Schmittou (Old Deuteronomy that day) giving me a huge bear hug :)
Me and Keith Wilson (Plato/Macavity/Rumpus Cat)
Me and Jeffry Denman (Munkustrap) This is another of my favorites
Me and Maria Jo Ralabate (Rumpleteazer) I'm not stoned really :)
Manda and Angel Caban (Sillabub that day)
Manda and Stephen Bienske (Tugger)
Manda and Patrick Mullaney (Tumble)
Manda, Whitney, Julius and Me
NEWMe and Andy Karl outside of SNF
NEWAndy Karl pointing to his name on the SNF Poster (he was excited cause he had never had his name on a poster before)
NEWMe and David Petro who we saw at the SNF stage door (he was waiting for Andy just like we were.
Julius posing backstage in costume
The Fans
On August 12/13 I met a few of the forum people who decided to go to the show in costume. Here are some of the pics I took of that
SadieCass doing Balurina's makeup
Balurina smiling at the camera
Sadie and Cross getting ready (What a face!)
Sadie and Balurina getting ready
Sadie and Balurina posing for the camera. Was that their Limo??
Crosswise posing for the camera with Griffin in the background
Sadie, Balurina, Cross and me after the show
A few of us goofing around in September in what we called the Pit
ResQ, Whitney, Stoff and Manda (it's a bit blurry)
Whitney, Stoff and Me. Don't ask :)
Goofing around in other parts of the City
Alonzo, Whitney, Stoff and Me apparently finding something pretty funny
Stoff and Adas during the famous chicken on the cheesecake incident. Don't ask me I wasn't there.
Gintora, CatsFanatic, Alonzo, Mandakay, Me, Donovan and Adas in front of Starbucks
The Naked Blue Guy and Whitney (you had to be there)
Me, Manda and Whitney posing for the camera
The three of us in casual dress
The three of us in formal dress
Me and Whitney
The two of us again
Manda and Whitney at Broadway on Broadway (pics of that event coming soon)
The Littlest Cats Fans: Cody and Andrew, Whitney's two boys are both huge Cats fans so she gave me permission to put them up on my site and what better section to have them in!
Andrew in my Rumpleteazer wig (with Whitney holding him)
Andrew trying to take off the wig
Andrew with a very serious look on his face
Andrew and Whitney
Cody hiding from the camera
Cody coming towards the camera
The September 7, 2000 Fan Party and Auction (in no particular order). A few side notes: The girl in the white you see a lot is Chessnamoon and the girl in blue you see the back of her head a lot is Demetrix.
Tigger's sister, Tiggertailz and Manda talking
Stoffelees and Littlegriz dancing. Aren't they cute?
Julius dancing with some fans
Julius and Crosswise
Julius and Stoffelees
The cake that Lynette made
Julius auctioning off a pic of him and Jon Erik
Billy auctioning off a basket of goodies
Julius signing a box of cookies from the basket
Billy, Jon Erik and Keith looking to see what is in the basket
Julius, Billy and Keith finding something to sign in the basket
Billy auctioning of Marlene Danielle's shoes
Billy and Keith with Marlene's shoes
Billy congratulating me for paying $250 for pictures of him :)
Billy auctioning off his own shoes (we got several stories out of it too)
Jon Erik and Julius wondering why Lenny Daniel has padding in his shoes
Jon Erik helping to auction off Lenny's shoes
Julius helping to auction off a horse that Bandersnatch made
Keith showing everyone his shoes from Broadway
Keith and Julius with Keith's Broadway shoes
Keith looking very regal with the cast signed T-shirt. :)
Keith with his Hamburg shoes
Keith and Jon Erik with Keith's Hamburg Shoes
Keith again with his Hamburg shoes reciting the Naming of Cats in German
Keith again with his Hamburg shoes
Keith and Julius auctioning off a ticket to the Sept. 9 performance
Julius with the ticket again
Julius auctioning off a cast signed playbill
Julius with a homemade CATS cross stitch
Julius and Jon Erik with the cross stitch
Julius caught off guard by the camera
Keith with a hat from the Hamburg productin which he autographed
Julius trying to show the book he made with Billy trying to take it away
Julius showing off the book
Julius with the book again
Julius again with the book
I would like to point out that the book that Julius made was full of photos from backstage, candid shots of the cast in their dressing rooms and photos you would not find anywhere unless you were a cast member. He got everyone of the cast to sign it and then he auctioned it off. Balurina was the lucky winner, paying a mere $625 for it. Congrats to Balurina!!
The morning after the party :)
Me and Whitney, the morning after
Us again still in bed
