Thread:Belle pullman/@comment-37392602-20200225202049/@comment-3182821-20200225231114

We don't have access to official records - all these cast lists are from programmes that people have uploaded either here, or to other fansites over the years. Or they've been passed around fans - but there's some inaccuracies in that info that has been copied over and over. There's some spelling mistakes, and some instances where someone has listed the exact performers they saw, including swings and covers, but that list is taken to be the full cast. Some of the info we have here I think is not quite accurate like that - but without a printed programme, it can't be corrected.

So, the only way to get more information is to get more programmes. Sometimes they come up on Ebay, or collector's sites, or are given to fans. Sometimes performers add information to their websites - but they don't tend to be specific about exactly when they were in the show.

And then... there's also, occasionally, a little white lie or an exaggeration that makes it into someone's biography. Especially in the past, before the internet when it was much harder to fact-check, and especially when someone in, say, America claims to have played a role in a smaller European production - nobody back then could prove them wrong, and it makes their career sound better. It still happens these days too - over in Starlight Express, a few years ago the girl in training to play Pearl never made it through skate school, but she claims she did play the role in her biography. It's sad when she put so much work in but failed in the end - but - no, she didn't play Pearl. So very occasionally someone will lie in their biography. I always take that as the last option, it's much more likely we're missing the info, but it can happen.