User blog:Emptycorpse/Non-Replica Productions - Adding / Editing

Can someone kindly give some feedback / guidance on what is 'allowed' in terms of adding and editing (professionally staged) non-replica Cats productions in the wiki? This is going to be a bit of a multi-faceted inquiry.

Firstly, what specifically is needed for productions to be faithful enough to be added beyond being based on Cats? Is it the visual aspect, musical (song / lyrics / audio) aspect, or a combination of both? At the moment, there are the Mexico 2013 and 2018 productions, which follow very close to the story of Cats, outside of variance in more vibrant costume designs. Productions like Gothenburg have additional named chorus cats, but still stick close enough to be recognizable, aside from the different set design and slight choreography tweaks. Opposite to this, there are productions such as the Budapest, Warsaw, or Tampere which took significant liberties with everything from adding principle characters in, changing character names and roles, unique choreography, complete character re-designs, to changing the actual song orchestrations. These still appear close enough for someone to say that it is most likely some production Cats.

However, some more 'interpretive' of these non-rep productions, like Kilworth House or Tecklenberg 2015 (not listed in the wiki) do not even have the actors as 'cats' aside from the an appendage tail used to seemingly throw just enough a unifying Cats theme into what is happening on stage so that someone could link it to Cats based on hearing the backing orchestration alongside it. I have seen the Tecklenburg production, and without the music, it would be quite difficult to determine it was a production of Cats.

Secondly, it is permitted to create pages for the actors / personnel in these productions or should it be kept with an 'unlinked' cast / production list on the respective production page? For example, non-rep (but still fairly faithful) Oslo 1985 production does not have separate pages created for each actor on it's cast list, but the far less replica Italian Tour does. Does it simply mean that there is an opportunity to expand the wiki by adding more pages, or is that advised against because the non-replica representation / information should be kept to a minimum?

Overall, this is not meant to say one production is better than another, or as a way to say some deserve more recognition than others. I am merely highlighting differences and trying to understand what information should be added.

Regardless, I appreciate anyone who read over this lengthy post. Any opinions are certainly welcomed.