User:Drenched/Sandbox

D's SANDBOX! Hooray! D loves sandboxes....D isn't too computer-savvy, so she apologizes for formatting/organizational/coding messiness.

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.

Name

Self-explanatory

Image

Acceptable images may include:

• Promotional posters
• CD covers
• Playbill covers
• Logos

Caption

Explanation of image source, self-explanatory

Music

Composer(s) of the music, self-explanatory

Lyrics

Lyricist(s), self-explanatory

Book

Writer(s), self-explanatory

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]]

Productions

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.

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

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]]

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?

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)