User blog:Belle pullman/Cast List References

I should have been doing this all along! But the info on this wiki is pulled from all over the place - some from programmes I have in my collection, hard copy. Some is from other websites, or news articles, official sites, some from images of programmes on Ebay for example - definitely accurate but NOT in my collection. So, going through, this is what I have to hand:

London:
Programmes: then we move from landscape to portrait: Then, "Theatregoer" Magazine, short-lived attempt to copy "Playbill" but get people to pay for it... There's also the alphabetical cast lists in brochures.... frustratingly close to useful info!
 * 1981/05 - OLC
 * 1981/07
 * 1982/01
 * 1982/11
 * 1983/02
 * 1989/12
 * 1992/05 (my first show)
 * 1993/11
 * 1994/11
 * 1996/12 (first with headshots)
 * 1999/07
 * 2000/01
 * 2000/04
 * 2000/10
 * 2001/05 - autographed 11/05/2001
 * Undated - slight change from 05/2001
 * 2001/10
 * 2002/02
 * 1982/04
 * 1983/02
 * 1985/05
 * 1986/10 with insert 1987/09
 * 1988/12 with insert 1988/06 (yeah.  the insert is earlier than the brochure.  I don't even.)
 * 1989/04
 * 1990/02
 * 1990/11
 * 1991/11
 * 1992/06
 * 1992/11
 * 1993/05
 * 1993/12
 * 1994/06
 * 1994/11
 * 1996/08
 * 1997/05
 * 1997/12
 * 1999/11 (into over-size format)
 * 2000/06
 * 2002/02 - mis-print labelled 2001/02!
 * 2002/04 - 21 years/closing, identical contents to previous

UK Tours
and similarly brochures:
 * 1989 Blackpool
 * 1993/09 Bristol
 * 1994/09 Southampton
 * 2003/03 Manchester
 * 2004/11 Wimbledon
 * 2007/03 - cast info in brochure
 * 2007/07 Woking
 * 2013/07 Woking
 * 2014/05 Wimbledon
 * 2014/09 Birmingham
 * 2014/12 Palladium
 * 2015/11 Palladium
 * 2016/05 Birmingham
 * 2016/08 Eastbourne
 * 2016/09 Oxford
 * 2016/11 Wimbledon
 * 2017/03 Antwerp
 * 1989/11 Edinburgh
 * 1990/03 Dublin
 * 1993/07 Bristol
 * 1994/02
 * 1994/08
 * 2013 - oversize skinny brochure
 * 2014/15 - Palladium oversize brochure
 * 2015/02 - Palladium oversize brochure ft. Kerry Ellis
 * 2015/07 Blackpool ft. Jane McDonald
 * 2015/10 Palladium ft. Beverley Knight
 * 2016/02 oversize brochure with no cast info

US Productions:

 * 1985 - US Tour 2 later than Jan cast
 * 1986/12 Programme - Broadway images, sold for US Tour 4, cast insert for Long Beach, CA - mid 1987
 * 1987/02 Broadway
 * 1987 - US Tour 4 Programme Feb 1993, Cast insert 1987/03. Go figure.
 * 2000/06 Broadway
 * 2001/12 US 5 - Toronto
 * 2009/10 US 5 - Orlando FL
 * 2016/10 Broadway Playbill
 * 2016/11 Broadway oversize Programme with cast insert

Europe:

 * 1986 Vienna
 * 1991/08 Zurich - Programme with cast insert


 * 1990/10 Hamburg programme
 * 1991/08 Hamburg programme
 * 1992/04 Hamburg programme
 * 1992/10 Hamburg chunkier style
 * 1993/10 Hamburg - insert cast list for 19/05/1994.  Also adverts for Dec 94 - suspect might be later than Oct 93?
 * 1996/02 Hamburg programme - "10 Jahre Cats"
 * 1997 Hamburg Brochure - LP shaped
 * 1997/11 Cast insert
 * 1998/04 cast insert
 * 2001 Stuttgart Brochure - no cast insert but I thinkI have it somewhere...
 * 2002 Berlin Brochure - no cast insert but cast list for 19th Jan 2003
 * 2011/10 German Tent Tour Brochure inc cast insert (undated but bought in 12/2011)

Others:

 * 1989/05 Perth Aus Tour - Brochure with programme insert
 * 1983 Tokyo
 * 1996 Tokyo
 * 2000/04 Nagoya
 * 2000/08 Nagoya
 * 2002/02 Osaka
 * 2006/03 Tokyo
 * 2007/08 Tokyo
 * 2010/08 Yokohama

So - those are the dates and productions that I can personally double-check. Then there's info pulled from programmes on ebay, or borrowed from friends, but I don't own.

Relying on this information does, of course, assume that what is printed was accurate to what actually happened... testimony from performers takes precidence over anything else!