[Ads-l] swing, a musical theatre term

[George Thompson]

>From a recent issue of The Guardian (London), profiling professional
mermaids:
[headline]  The real-life mermaids turning fantasy into reality on
Britain’s shores

[Previous to taking up mermaiding, one had been an actress and singer, but
had developed vocal problems:]
She was the show’s swing, a musical theatre term for a performer who can
take on any role in the production at short notice.
(Sun 16 Oct 2022 10.00 BST)

I don't see this in the OED, swing,  noun, #2

GAT

-- 
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

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