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operafantomet:

Monkey Musical Box: Colour of the vest

1. Original World Tour
   
2. Australia
3. Japan
4. Vienna
5. Original West End
6. Copenhagen
7. Recent West End
8. Hamburg revival
9. Recent Broadway
   

If you had asked me what colour the monkey’s vest is, I would probably had said green. Because that’s what I’m used to seeing, that’s what the most featured productions have, that’s usually what the Monkey Girl in Masquerade wears. Then I started looking into what the individual productions featured, and lo and behold! Red seems just as common for the vest. Now, I’ve always known the Swedish/Danish one wore a red vest, but I thought it was an anormality. Turns out, he’s just one of many.

I think the main division is that the original West End production featured a red vest, and hence also many of the productions to follow in Europe, Australia and Japan. But then green was done for the original Broadway one, and so the US & Canadian productions did green shades. Both shades are in use today.

Which monkey are you today?