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[edit] New infobox template standards

This page is a work in progress, a rough outline for brainstorming. The purpose of this page is to set more detailed guidelines for the content of the {{Infobox Musical 2}} template. The purpose of detailing the template is to further Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicals's goal of standardizing Wikipedia's musical theatre articles. Issues/questions are bolded. Please leave feedback in the Feedback/comments section.

The subheadings below are fields in the infobox template.

[edit] Name

Self-explanatory

[edit] Image

Acceptable images may include:

  • Promotional posters
  • CD covers
  • Playbill covers
  • Logos

[edit] Caption

Explanation of image source, self-explanatory

[edit] Music

Composer(s) of the music, self-explanatory

[edit] Lyrics

Lyricist(s), self-explanatory

[edit] Book

Writer(s), self-explanatory

[edit] Basis

Include this section if the musical was based either directly or loosely on a novel, movie, opera or other source material.

Include:

  • Type of source of original (novel, play, movie, opera, etc.)
  • Name of original work
  • Author/composer of original work
Example: Opera ''[[La boheme]]'' by [[Giacomo Puccini]]

[edit] Productions

[edit] Scope

  • Broadway (or off-Broadway) & West End productions
  • Notable professional tours
  • Notable professional revivals
  • Notable professional international productions & tours
  • Notable professional concerts & special performances
  • No amateur productions (i.e. High school, community theater group productions, etc.)
  • Previews may be discussed under the History/Background section of the article.

[edit] Format

List productions chronologically.

For each production, include:

  • Start year only
  • Location
    • For non-touring productions, write "Broadway", "West End", or the city and country of production.
    • For tours, write the country of the tour
  • Type of production (production, tour, concert etc.)
  • (optional) Number of performances
Example: 
[[1996]] [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] production<br>
[[2000]] [[Barcelona, Spain]] production<br>
[[2001]] [[UK]] tour<br>
[[2006]] [[Manila, Philippines]] concert

[edit] Awards

  • These awards should exclude production-specific awards (i.e., lighting, direction, scenery, acting awards).
  • Include year of award. The year is listed before the award in each line.
Example: [[1996]] [[Tony Award for Best Book]]

[edit] Awards to be included

Awards to be listed include:

Should any awards be removed from or added to this list?

[edit] Feedback and comments on the above

Got any answers, new questions or issues to address, or other random feedback? Speak here!

See my edits above, which I hope are helpful. Responses to your questions: I don't think the distinction between equity/non-equity is important. The question is, I think, whether the production was really notable. If there are dozens of little tours, we don't want to fill up the box listing them all, but if, say, a West End show then had an off-Broadway run, it could be noted. I would say that notable previews can be discussed in the narrative, under "background", unless they were famous for some reason. End year: not in the box, IMO. But, what about number of performances?. City name should be enough, unless the city name is not internationally known or would be ambiguous. For instance, a production in Atlanta might not be clear to people outside the US, so "Atlanta, Georgia, USA". I would say, yes, orchestration awards, because those are the parts written. Another production might change them, but so what. Hope this helps! --Ssilvers 17:21, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
Heya! I agree about not listing previews in the infobox, and listing all professional tours equity or non. About locations of performances...what if we just by default listed City, Country for non-touring productions just for the sake of consistency? Otherwise, you'd have to judge on a case-by-case basis what city was major or not major etc. and it might get confusing. About orchestrations though, that's a grey area because the score is written and I feel like the orchestration is in that, but can change from production to production, making it production-specific. Sort of. So maybe there needs to be more feedback on this award before we can reach a definitive standard. I liked your above edits, thanks! =) --Drenched 20:18, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
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