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

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 production 2000 Barcelona, Spain production 2001 UK tour 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: Should any awards be removed from or added to this list?
 * 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

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)