Munkustrap - Blog Posts
I don’t know if you guys know but I freaking LOVE cats the musical just as much as I love metalocolypse and munkustrap is my favorite actually I have a idea I should turn dethkolk into cats
One thing that I haven't seen many people talk about is just how great og pekes and pollicles is???
like not to be a hater but I kinda don't like the 2016 version of it (where it's moved to after gus) cuz while it makes sense the execution is kinda meh??
like why did you take the funniest part out of a COMEDIC NUMBER
The whole point of it is to show these "perfect cats" messing everything up!!!
and you take that out???? (not to mention the lack of bagpipes tugger is so sad rip)
and gus singing it isn't bad (he does a pretty good job) but like....
it was basically munkustrap's song. Without the cats messing it up and munk getting mad at them, munk is just "perfect protector guy" and frankly, that's less interesting than having him tired theater dad-ing :( it's like seeing another side of him and I love that!
the number has so much personality that just gets taken away :(((
I get why they moved it, to replace growltiger (obvs) and it was kinda in an awkward spot, sandwiched in between old deuteronomy and jellicle ball, but it never feels jarring in that spot (maybe cuz the whole musical is jarring lmao)
it really scares you with the macavity scare cuz you just had this really silly number and then BANG
(I get why some productions (rccl lol) cut it tho, the whole needing extra costume pieces + not introducing any new characters makes it a really easy number to cut)
What makes me sad is that you can still put it after gus the theater cat and still make it just as charming!!
like what if munk was trying to hide the fact that they're messing it up from gus or smth?that would be adorable T-T
but instead they just perform it perfectly like all the other numbers and it makes it really forgettable :((
anyways I have too many thoughts about this musical
Last night I had a dream where Munkustrap was in a pixelated computer game and he had to defeat Thrakkorzog or something. He shot out electric shocks when you pressed X and coughed up a hairball when you pressed space. “Extra Nerdy” was his big move and it’d put the enemy to sleep for a moment.
It was eventful
Going back to my blog's roots a little
too bad I didn't think of this before the holidays.
fuck it, I made it now you have to look at it. (Based on the poster for Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights) (obviously)
@namethat-i-oughttohavetoldyou
My secret Santa drawing for you, Merry holidays and stuff :)))
Hell yeah Catoween (not to be confused with ketamine)
Made 15 of my 26 Cats masks designs. Some of them are a little tweaked, but not majorly.
Some watercolor Cats for your consideration
Doodle I made at like, 1 am
I designed some masks for the cast of Cats if it were a masked theater performance :) I was inspired for a lot of them by the 1986 Hamburg production in particular.
My silliest ideas always come late at night -
Cats the Musical: Pokemon AU
Tecklenburg is my favorite non-replica (and maybe my favorite production ever) so I drew some of the Katzen :)
...Then curl up by the fire and sleep for a while, it's the grooviest thing, it's the perfect dream! (Lyrics from The Lovecats by The Cure) Edit: Nothing like spending hours on a piece to find out that the song that inspired you to draw it has a super fucked up story behind it.
Had an epiphany the other night.
I love Cats a lot. Munkustrap definitely has oldest sibling energy. Love that for him.