Thread:Belle pullman/@comment-39097528-20200526225535/@comment-3182821-20200527101741

I don't want to go tagging people in his photo, but it would have been a handy function! Let's see... the order he's gone in by row isn't quite intuitive to me.

West End CATS 1988: Cherida Langford (Victoria), Ann Woodfield (Jellylorum), Donald Franke (Old Deut), Cathy Cordez (Rumple), Amanda Courtney Davies (Tant), me (Adrian Edmeades - in profile centre), Stephen Mear (Bill), Sparkey (Admetus I think), Graham Fletcher (Misto), Richard Lloyd-King (Tugger), Adam Matalon (Skimble), Japheth Myers (Carby?), Cye Newton (Alonzo) and Jackie Matalon Crawford (Electra) ( hidden behind Cye Newton’s head! )

Amanda Courtney-Davies was a swing, then Tant, so possibly she was cover when this pic was taken. Adrian Edmeades was Bill, then Mungo later - Bill usually covers Mungo. But that's definitely Stephen Mear as Bill, so Adrian isn't him! I wouldn't swear it's NOT a Mungo costume but.... Sparkey's ginger wig and what we can see of the unitard looks like Admetus from that era, but might be a swing cat. Japheth Myers should be Carbucketty but that really looks like an Admetus wig on a Caby unitard.

It doesn't help that 1987/1988 was right when they were SUPER creative with the costumes, that strong geometric look, the wigs were up and down and all sorts, I'm double-checking against the 1987 Gallery as well as the 1988 Gallery - this photo might be March, April 1988 after all, or covers wearing older costumes. Comparing against the September 1987 Pyramid, Sparkey does seem to be wearing a version of the Admetus costume seen directly below Old Deut at the top of the pyramid. I think in that photo Carby has a very pale wig, between Misto and Electra, definitely not the same design Japheth Myers is wearing... but then look at the Twins for how much the wigs were changing at this time! It's an awful ref for Mungo unfortunately. It seems pre-1987 Mungo did have a lot of blond, 1989 onwards he was darker - so at this point? it was one or the other!