Video: See Actors Channel House Pets In Mog the Forgetful Cat at Edinburgh Fringe
This brand-new musical is a kids’s classic in the making.
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Mog the Forgetful Cat is practically as captivating, appealing, and skillfully directed as a musical for kids can be. Adapted from a book by Judith Kerr by the Wardrobe Ensemble, Mog informs the story of a family and their cat. The bewildered cat looks for stability—her tree, her toilet behind her tree—in an altering environment. Who can’t relate! (Though my toilet isn’t behind my tree. Anymore.)
See bits of the musical in the Playbill-special video above.
The cast of dedicated stars offer the program well, with the star playing Mog (Georgina Goodchild) particularly nailing the physicality of a cat (with remarkably reasonable “meow”s too). Every little the production appears thoroughly and adoringly made. The nooks and crannies at the top of the set ended up being hidey-holes for Mog near completion of the program.
In one number at the “V-E-T”’s workplace, the pet-owners being in profile and sing about their family pets. Then, they rely on let us see the opposite of their outfits, ending up being the parakeets, puppies, and hamsters they were singing about. It’s a wonderful shift.
Though the piano-based rating does the job, it will be boosted by a more industrialized orchestration in the future. Overall, Mog seems like a kids’s classic in the making.
Mog the Forgetful Cat performs at Underbelly Bristo Square, at McEwan Hall, till
August 27.
