Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paris (musical)

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The result of the debate was - deleted - SimonP 20:11, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Paris (musical)

Is this the Cole Porter musical? I don't know if that is about the Trojan War or not, but that's the only show called "Paris" listed at ibdb. With no further information to go on -- who wrote it, when was it performed, where was it performed, who starred in it, any of this article is unverifiable. I asked the original poster to explain, but he/she has not. RickK 20:43, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC) *From the user's previous edits, I would suspect you won't be getting verification anytime soon, either. Delete. --Scimitar 22:10, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Comment what about this site: Paris the Musical? No real info there, though. --Etacar11 22:40, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • Make mine a weak keep. --Etacar11 23:25, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep lousy article about not very notable musical and hope someone improves it. Some clicking on Google Groups in rec.arts.theatres.musical suggests that it is a musical by one Jon English of which someone commented "Unfortunately, Paris only exists as the concept album which was released around 1990." Googling on "Jon English Paris yields quite a bit of paydirt. There's probably an article here if anyone wants to write one. I don't feel like it. Ah, here's a bit about a 2004 staging in Melbourne. The concept album sold 50,000 copies and as for the Melbourne production, "Jon has chosen amateur theatre to stage the productions. The decision was easy. 'Simply because amateur theatre tends to do stuff that professional theatre shys away from' he says. 'There are a lot of Paris fans out there." Dpbsmith (talk) 23:22, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• It appears that this might have sprung out of a redlink in rock opera, added by Lairor (talk · contribs). Going by that edit, try looking for "Jon English" and "David Mackay". Do these two articles help? Uncle G 23:28, 2005 Jun 6 (UTC)
• Comment The 1990 recording is apparently still available and has an Amazon sales rank of 33,000 which is not terribly shabby. Dpbsmith (talk) 23:37, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Comment I originally thought RickK was thinking of Cole Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen but I should not have doubted him... Cole Porter did write an early musical entitled Paris so we'll need a disambiguation page at some point. Dpbsmith (talk) 23:42, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

OK, thanks to dpbsmith and Uncle G, I'll withdraw my nomination RickK 23:54, Jun 6, 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Jon English is a notable Australian musician and he has been working on this project for sometime. I might have a go at cleaning it up myself. Capitalistroadster 00:26, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Change vote to keep in light of other posters evidence. --Scimitar 22:34, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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