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articles Importance None Total Quality FA2 2 GA8 8 B136 136 Start915 915 Stub740 740 List33 33 Assessed 1834 1834 Unassessed2 2 Total 1836 1836

WikiProject Musical Theatre

This WikiProject seeks to drastically improve the quality of the articles pertaining to Musical theatre throughout Wikipedia. If you would like to participate in the project, please sign up below and see the to-do list. Also note the talk page.

Goals

To promote interaction, cooperation, and communication among those interested in improving Wikipedia's coverage of musical theatre.
To improve the quality of the articles on musical theatre to Featured Article status.
To make Wikipedia the foremost compendium on the subject of musical theatre to be found on the Internet.

To-do – Open Tasks

Help out with one of the WikiProject Musical Theatre tasks below. You may add your name to the Participantslist to the right.

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Collaborate and work on the Collaboration of the Month

Articles needing a content fork

Mainly, these are articles on films and either their source or subsequent musicals. There are a couple where the musical needs to be "forked" from the source material. Feel free to add or remove as necessary. Important: If you split an article, please make sure that you move all the relevant links from the first article to the new one. To find which links to move, click on "What links here" at the old article and look through the list to see which links should be pointed to the film related link (for example, articles on actors in the film). Then, click on those links and update them to point to the film article. Thanks!

Don't Play Us Cheap
Roberta
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
I Married an Angel
Lady in the Dark
The Band Wagon - musical adaptation will to be forked after it opens in April.

To-do listfor Wikipedia:WikiProject Musical Theatre: edit · history · watch · refresh

Ongoing

Add new articles for musicals referenced by Wikipedia that don't have their own articles yet. A list of musicals needing articles is here.
Create articles for Tony Award and Olivier Award winners - actors, directors, authors, etc.
Add {{Musicals-project}} tag to articles for relevant performers, composers, writers, directors and choreographers that do not have the project tag.
Add references to articles. See WP:CITE and WP:RS.
Improve articles to Good Article status and eventually to Featured Article status.
Add {{Infobox Musical}} to articles in need of an infobox.
Participate in our Collaboration of the Month

Current

Create Trouble (The Music Man song) and other articles on key songs from musicals (The Music Man has 4 so far, but this one is a major omission, as it is the best known from the musical).
Create Danny Burstein
Create Paul Gemignani

Participants

Former/inactive participants

Replace your name above if you become active again!

PatHaugen; WickedWitchoftheWest; Burnley; Eraoul; JellyFish72; Usgnus; Daydream believer2; Yid613; kwazyutopia19; WesternActor; MichaelCaricofe; Wootking; Lbr123; Evilphoenix; BaronLarf; AtionSong; Kevin M Marshall; JustDerek; Kedar; Ganymead; PhilBroadway; Clarkefreak; ∞; SFTVLGUY2

The current Musical Theatre Collaboration of the Month is
All Stub class articles beginning with the letter "A".
The next collaboration will be selected on
February 1, 2007.

Scope

Inclusions

Any and all articles pertaining to Musical theatre on Wikipedia including, but not limited to:

musicals (including revues, but excluding musical films)
composers, lyricists and librettists
directors and choreographers
producers
performers
genres (rock musical, Edwardian musicals, etc.)
songs from musicals and cast albums

Exclusions

Articles pertaining to:

theatres, ie venues - these form part of the WikiProject Theatre
musical films
operettas - these form part of the WikiProject Opera, although if it is a grey area, there is nothing wrong with categorizing the work in both places
Gilbert and Sullivan - these are covered by WikiProject Gilbert and Sullivan
operas - these are covered by WikiProject Opera