Talk:A Broadway Musical

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You changed the wording of this article and the way it read did not match the facts according to the Mandelbaum book I used for my research, so I am making some changes.

The producers replaced most of the cast BEFORE Champion was asked to take over from Faison. In fact, Champion felt he did so little he accepted only a "supervised by" credit for his contribution.

You added the comment that "The creators hoped that the backstage story about the making of a musical would cash in on the success of 42nd Street and A Chorus Line." Do you know that to be a fact? Mandelbaum specifies it was the black musical trend that inspired them but makes no mention of the shows you do. You also refer to "Brown's much-criticized book" but there aren't any links to reviews supporting the statement (I would guess several would be required to substantiate "much"-criticized, no?) I will leave the comments pending further discussion.

I'm curious why you put the song titles in columns. This seems to be a recent change in format and unfortunately in many cases it creates a wide gap in the text. (I've changed many.) In order to keep things consistent, isn't it better to forget the columns? Otherwise, some will have them and others won't, out of necessity. Thank you. ConoscoTutto 14:34, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, everything I did is based on the links and references cited in or at the bottom of the article. If you have better references, by all means please cite them. As to columnization of the song list, I think it makes sense as long, as you say, it does not create the white space (which it will not do once the article has all the needed information in it). I think the project editors generally agree that the columns are better. Thanks for reviewing and improving the article more! You should welcome the input of other editors. If I added information that you know is wrong, you need to find sources that refute the sources I listed at the bottom of the article and at the end of each paragraph. Let's discuss the article here, where other editors can participate! -- Ssilvers 14:43, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

If I didn't welcome the input of other editors, I wouldn't have contacted you! ConoscoTutto 14:56, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. BTW, did you realize that this article is part of the project's Collaboration of the Month (all musicals stubs beginning with the letter "A")? I am hoping that if we are successful in bringing most of the stubs up to "start" class that we can work our way through the alphabet and upgrade most of the stubs in the project. I see that Mark upgraded the assessment here to "start" already, but I think we need to beef up the plot synopsis a bit and put it in its own section.

If you look at the Gower Champion biography that I cited (the relevant part is online at googlebooks), what it says is that Champion was brought in to save the show and worked very hard to do so, but that he was pessimistic that it could be saved and not at all proud of it. It also says that he indeed fired a lot of people, so maybe some quit before hand (as you suggest) and then he fired others? -- Ssilvers 15:04, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Technically, doesn't this article start with the letter "B"??? LOL ConoscoTutto 15:12, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for correcting the page number. That is all I was asking you to do. Best regards, -- Ssilvers 23:54, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

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