CATS - 1st UK Tour / Blackpool - Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat (Geoffrey Garratt, 1989)

"Skimbleshanks" from the first UK national touring cast of CATS.
Skimbleshanks: Geoffrey Garratt with his real voice (unlike the video where he was dubbed)

[@FelineFurKin]

My goodness, his voice is so good. I always loved his performance on the video anyway, this is just something else. I met him once while doing front of house at the Drury Lane when Witches of Eastwick opened, he was resident choreographer and just came up and said hi, who he was, and that it was as all mad, as he was going past. Lovely guy.

[@marinavolkova5895]

Thank you very much for this video! It was very interesting to hear Geoff's real voice and see another performance by him. He is really good as Skimbleshanks.

[@beetlejuicelover7526]

"DO YA LIKE YER CUP OF TEA" no one knows how much I laughed. Honestly, he's amazing Edit: wrong lyrics but you know what I meant 😂

[@limesquared]

Thank you! Great to hear his real voice.

[@MewMewSeelie]

Dang, what an awesome find! Thanks so much for uploading this :) I've always wondered what he actually sounded like.

[@katielawrence5420]

I love Geoffrey Garratt.

[@Gabi.Dunkel]

he was a great skimbleshanks why he hasnt this voice in the video?

[@chrissi2810]

I think they wanted to have someone with a Scottish accent so he was dubbed.

[@Gabi.Dunkel]

mortifer | chrissi2810 ach so ich hab bei dem im Video noch keinen Akzent bemerkt. Was hältst du eigentlich vom Film?

[@chrissi2810]

naja das ist im Video schon ein schottischer Akzent, den der Sänger dort hat. Ich habe das Video tatsächlich seit bestimmt 5 Jahren nicht geschaut, wahrscheinlich noch länger. Irgendwie reizt mich das nicht mehr. Ich finde die Live-Show so viel besser.

[@Gabi.Dunkel]

mortifer | chrissi2810 mit Akzenten bin ich schlecht also sollte ich da keine Meinung haben. Ich liebe das Video gucke es mir sehr oft an. warst du schon mal auf ner live Aufführung? sollte ich auch mal machen

[@chrissi2810]

Ich habe die deutsche Tour vor Jahren 3x gesehen und dann hab ich die Londoner Aufführung vor zwei Jahren auch 3x gesehen. Und am Mittwoch ist Premiere in München, da werde ich es endlich wieder sehen.

[@Mur10050]

Geoffrey's voice is not bad but I like Skimble's voice ( I don't remember the name of the actor) in the 1998 movie better

[@alansmithee419]

Apparently the dancer is still Garratt, but they dubbed him. Though I haven't found any mention of the dubbing other than in this video's description, I can only assume it to be the case since the voice (hell, the *accent)* is completely different.

[@glori_val]

@@alansmithee419 the singing voice is of a David Arneil, according to Google. They wanted Skimble to have a Scottish accent.

[@TrainsAndTheatricals]

In the 1998 film, his movements seemed a bit stiff and small, I seem confused on why he changed the choreography a bit...

[@sk011151]

What gave them the idea to dub him for the 1998 Movie? It doesn’t quite make sense to me when you have a performer who can obviously sing very well and have years of experience doing the role…

[@chrissi2810]

Probably not the voice they were looking for. I heard it was about having someone sing it who had an authentic Scottish accent.

[@jaywayway]

Thanks for uploading all the cats videos! May I ask where you get them from?

[@rbfloat]

Wait, he was dubbed? Why?

[@chrissi2810]

Because they wanted a Scottish accent for Skimble

[@beetlejuicelover7526]

They wanted skimble to be Scottish, it's like they took one look at skimble and was like, 'this cat...this cat has to be Scottish' if that came out rude I am so sorry, cats is literally my favourite film

[@rachelmma]

to add to the other points, (which i completely agree with btw) he mentions places from Scotland so it would make sense for him to be scottish

[@HeyCallMeLy]

rachelmma exactly! The night mail was a real train around the 1930s which ran between London and Glasgow iirc, so Scottish!Skimble is likely from Glasgow