Best way to mix multiple camera angles from multiple performances?

There has to be a slick way to do this, but I can't seem to figure it out. I'm hoping someone can offer their advice on the best way to approach this project. (I'm using Premiere Pro CS4)
I have footage from 2 performances of a high school play that I want to mix together, with 2 cameras used each night:
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Cam3: Saturday Wide Left
Cam4: Saturday Wide Right
I only had 2 cameras, but I wanted to capture 4 different angles that I could later mix and match. The problem is that, as live performances go, you can't count on exact timing from night to night. It's really simple to do multi-camera editing for one night with the Multicamera Monitor (painfully simple), which works great for the 2 angles that were filmed on the same performance, but if I try to do it with footage from different nights, it only takes about a minute for actions onstage to be so far off between the two nights that I can't switch between cameras with reasonable accuracy.
Since I will be going back and forth many times among 4 clips, the ideal solution that I have come up with (but I don't think Premiere can do) is to have the ability to set markers or keyframes at certain locations that basically say "switch to MM:SS on camera X now" without actually trimming clips and overlaying them into a single video track. So basically determining which camera is "Live". This would let me do rolling edits without having to create a new clip every time I want to switch to that camera angle.
I may be missing something very simple or over-analyzing something that really won't be that bad, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around the best way to approach cutting back and forth among the same 4 unsynchronized camera angles numerous times. If nayone has a suggestion I'd love to hear it.
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-keen

Time - being in sync...
Most performances like that shot ( for like a music video ) are done to recorded music ( lip sync and play to recorded music ) ..so timing stays the same to the music... dont know what kind of performance you shot but this gives you an idea how tough it is to keep timing for music performances.
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Since I will be going back and forth many times among 4 clips, the ideal solution that I have come up with (but I don't think Premiere can do) is to have the ability to set markers or keyframes at certain locations that basically say "switch to MM:SS on camera X now" without actually trimming clips and overlaying them into a single video track. So basically determining which camera is "Live". This would let me do rolling edits without having to create a new clip every time I want to switch to that camera angle.
If you can't just use one night as suggested earlier by Jim and Stan....I would say bite the bullet and just do what you dont want to do...
make subclips ( trim clips or whatever ) and forget about rolling edits...
You might want to consider putting stuff in 4 sequences... day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4...
make a 5th sequence called "rough cut " or something...
each time you take a "clip" from one of the 4 sequences move that clip up one video channel ( and copy / paste to your 5th sequence )..which then gives you a visual quick guide what you have USED from the sequences...so you dont waste time scrubbing through stuff you already put into sequence 5....
You may be able to choose just ONE sound track from one night and just use THAT...and pick shots that FIT those moments in time OK from all 4 sequences....you can play with duration / time of a small clip ( as it is unlinked to the sound in this scenario ) to make it FIT better...but that would be very subtle changes...
ps...I keep forgetting...some people use the camera to record sound instead of a sound mixer, recorder, etc...so if thats your case what I suggested at bottom of mssg probably would not work...using duration / time...unless its REALLY minor adjustment...hmmmm, maybe export just the sound from a single performance and try using that as your ONE sound file for the performance...I really dont know what you would do if you recorded sound with the cameras...as I would never do that I dont know what to suggest if thats the case...

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