Talk:Audio theatre
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[edit] Copy vio?
It seems that most of this article is taken verbetim from another document that may possibly be copyrighted. Also the original document was a document that contained a lot of promotional materials including thing like Audio theatre is one of the "most exciting opportunities available today." In addition I think this article should be merged with Radio Drama at under either this name or "Audio Drama" since they cover the same topics in a different way. Audio theatre has some "buzz word" qualities to it, but it is "media neutral" unlike "Radio Drama." "Audio drama" may be a good compromise between the two.
--Kunzite 03:11, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Article source
I know the author of the article which was the source for much of this material, and believe that he was the one to put it there. He can be contacted to confirm if he approves this use of the article.
Yes, superlatives and other text which serves as promotion, rather than explanation should be changed.
I find audio theatre or audio theater to be a more neutral and descriptive term.
[edit] Radio Drama versus Audio Theatre
Both these articles describe what in effect was early Radio entertainment, now kept alive by craftsmen interested in a classic art form. For this reason, I believe Radio Drama is a better title for this series of articles, for despite the fact that these plays are now available on CD and other formats, they began life as Radio plays and the majority of those aware of the style understand and think of them as such.
ParticularlyEvil 23:26, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
- Keep Seperate as I think Radio Drama and Audio Theatre are distinct enough to keep seperated. --Shawn 23:02, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Radio drama is important enough to have its own topic/heading...
And the 1962 CBS Radio series weren't "live," but pre-recorded, and there has been new commercial (mostly on CBS), public, and religious radio drama since.
- I agree with the above. Radio drama is not just "early Radio entertainment" of historical interest only; it remains a living form in its own right -- chiefly in northern Europe, it is true, but not only there -- and deserves its own article. "Audio theatre" (though I have never come across the term before) merits an article too, of course, although the current one does seem to me to be somewhat US-centric. It should not, however, attempt to incorporate or take over the role performed by the existing article on the continuing art form, radio drama. -- Picapica 20:29, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Removed the merger proposal, which does not seem to have elicited any support. -- Picapica 19:24, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Variety?
This is concerning the following passage referring to audio theatre's origins back to 1880:
For hot products, recording companies turned to well-known performers from Variety, Vaudeville, Chautauqua, Minstrel Shows, etc. Musical acts were obvious first choices, but....
A "bot-assisted edit" attempted to disambiguify this passage by having the "Variety" link refer to the Variety magazine page. From the context, this appears to refer to variety stage shows, however, the Wikipedia definition of variety show only encompasses televsion variety shows.
I have modified the link to variety show (stage), which at present does not link anywhere. But I am open to suggestions/improvements. Also, I will consult with Richard Fish, whose article on audio theater is where this passage is based.
