Thread:Dizzycomputer/@comment-3182821-20200427212843/@comment-3182821-20200427225510

A Swing is a performer who can cover another track, at a moments' notice - Beth Robson and Richard Armitage fulfilled that function. But I don't think Femi Taylor was contracted to leap into playing another role if necessary - she was there since she's 1) moderately famous and 2) original cast, so the role was created for her.

Various European productions had already used the Plato name with the Admetus costume - Zurich/Euro tour and Antwerp come to mind. Pouncival and Tumblebrutus had also used the London costumes in European productions. Naming George "Admetus" is an error not a deliberate choice - but one so trivial there won't be an official word on it!

The whole video production was thrown together so quickly, without the forethought and consideration fans tend to assume went into it. Half the casting seems to have been based entirely on availability - Fergus Logan for example, had only ever played Misto before? - and after the fact RUG have put a lot of work into selling "the Ultimate Edition" of Cats. Not wanting to undermine what is a brilliant performance, but there are a lot, a lot of errors in there.

I'd need to see something like a costume label to convince me there was any intent for Frank Thompson's character to be named "Admetus" not "George" - I am absolutely sure it's an error that has been part of a 20 year long game of Chinese Whispers!