User:Drenched/Sandbox
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D's SANDBOX! Hooray! D loves sandboxes....D isn't too computer-savvy, so she apologizes for formatting/organizational/coding messiness.
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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:
- Tony Awards
- Tony Award for Best Musical
- Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical truncate to "Tony Award for Best Book"
- Tony Award for Best Original Score truncate to "Tony Award for Best Score"
- Tony Award for Best Orchestrations Should this award be included, or is it considered production-specific?
- Drama Desk Awards
- Outer Critics Circle Awards
- Obie Awards
- Pulitzer Prize
- Laurence Olivier Awards
- Helpmann Awards
- Dora Mavor Moore Awards
- Evening Standard Awards
- London Critics' Circle Theatre Awards
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)
