User blog:Belle pullman/Old Cats in Paris

I'm trying to get my brain around the 1989 Paris production... I went looking for Young Deut and found a headache!

Firstly, we have, as expected, " Vieux Mathusalem" (Old Deuteronomy) - Gilles Ramade, we have Asparagus - Tim Robin, but we also have "Vieux Genghis" - Gregory Schramel who appears to be his own ensemble character - the performer isn't also in any other roles. We have a HUGE archive of photos from the production, most unusual for the 1980s.

The costume appears to be more similar to "Young Deut" than "Asparagus", but it's hard to say as both wear grey/browns in blending, non-descript patterns. Both, at this point in the show's development, typically wear "Pajamas" not spandex. The key feature that Asparagus usually has, from the design, is a kind of "collar" of yarn/strands/fluff. But, the brown wig certainly seems to match Gus. We do see Gus at the end of the show in a costume closer to what we'd expect for him...

So in fact, are neither of these portraits of Gus? are they both of Deut? In which case we have no portraits of Gus. And what about "Vieux Genghis"? Who is he, what did he look like? Is he in the middle of some of the production shots and I just don't realise?!

Perhaps they ARE both of Deut - the Bustopher makeup for this production wouldn't lend itself to going over that base. But then why different wigs?