Suzie, who was Bombalurina in the 2017 and 2020 Asia tours, didn’t join the 2022 Taiwan leg of the tour on account of being eight months pregnant at the time when the others were flying into Taipei.
And now she’s had her baby!
Plus some comments from castmates (Tyler is Victoria, Rafe is Munkustrap, and Ben (Almon) Colley was a Rafe/Munk cover):
I won’t repost the photos here, but if you want a couple of newborn Bomba baby photos, there are two on her instagram (and I’m sure there’ll be more to come): XX.
Meanwhile here’s her Bomba a year ago today (28 Feb 2021)….
With Fletcher Dobinson’s Alonzo, and Aaron Lynch’s Coricopat playing their little love triangle game in the curtain call! (Source. Dan Partridge is Tugger and Emily Casey is Demeter.)
I'm just saying the psychic cats can have some twincest as a treat
Like. Aside from the being fictional characters and on top of that being fictional cats who are possibly feral, I'm pretty sure they are literally 2 halves of a whole soul anyway
Rhys Batten and Gabrielle Cocca, 2019 international tour; Connor Orion Bermingham and Gracie Anderson, 2021 US tour; Aaron Lynch and Taylor Scanlan, 2020 Asia tour.
Coricopat (Aaron Lynch) and Admetus (Thomas Inge) being fabulous with tail mics while Tugger warbles loudly about the magical Mr Mistoffelees in the background.
Aaron pretending to preen the mane he doesn’t have, then doing a mic drop with his own tail! Thomas’ little gay wiggles! Love these boys.
This is actually even sweeter than it looks at first.
2020 Asia tour, the first day they got out of the rehearsal studio—or rather, the basement they’d had to move into for rehearsals after COVID restrictions meant the government closed down the proper rehearsal studio. So it was a long uncertain road to get into this building, never knowing whether they’d be completely shut down tomorrow.
Dominique Hamilton (Rumpleteazer) and Aaron Lynch (Coricopat) both did the 2014 and 2017 Asia tours together. So they’re old friends—and now, finally, they’re back on this set, in these costumes for the first time in years. They’re back in the Junkyard, back home, and they can share this moment together.
Also Natalie Bennyworth as Cassandra, Jal Joshua as Carbucketty, Dan Partridge as Tugger, Fletcher Dobinson as Alonzo, and George Hankers as Mungojerrie—all of whom have also been in various productions before, so there’s a certain amount of homecoming excitement for everyone!