My name is Andrea, and I just wanted to share my story of how I met 
Julius Sermonia. He was Mistoffelees in the national tour. He is now 
on Broadway playing the same character. Actually the whole thing 
started when he saw my sisters web site dedicated to him. He 
contacted her and they started talking. When he found out that we 
were going to see Cats on December 16 in East Lansing, MI, he invited 
us to meet him backstage. Of course we agreed. 

We met him at the stage door an hour before the show started. First 
he was showing us the message board that they use and in walks 
Chadwick Adams (Plato/Macavity). So we met him. Then on our way to 
the actual backstage we met David Petro (Mungojerrie). He is my 
favorite and I was so excited and to top it all off he didn't have a 
shirt on!! 

Anyway after that, we went backstage and Julius showed us the costume 
rack. We touched his $8000 fiber optic jacket! He is taking it with 
him to Broadway by the way. We saw both of Jennyanydots costumes, the 
beetles, Bustopher Jones, and Griddlebones  costumes.

After all this we went on to the stage and took some pictures. All 
the while Julius was telling us about all their little tricks and 
secrets and things like that. We didn't get to stay on the stage very 
long because they were about to open the house. We went back to the 
backstage area where we met Brian Wilson and Stephen B. (can't spell 
his last name) of the cats chorus. The first time I saw it Stephen 
played Old Deuteronomy, but this time he was just in the chorus. We 
walked by the huge shoe and there was David warming up. Boy is he 
cute. Anyway it was close to showtime so we had to go to our seats. 
Julius invited us back afterwards too. But when we went back after 
the show they had to leave for some reason so we didn't get to hang 
out. However, Julius said that if we are ever in New York, to look 
him up! I think that means we will get a Broadway backstage tour too. 
And this was my cats experience.

Andrea