Talk:August Wilson Theatre

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Date	Process	Result
July 12, 2022	Good article nominee	Listed
September 19, 2023	Good topic candidate	Promoted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 20, 2022.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that at the Guild Theatre, the higher an actor ascended, the farther they were from stardom?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 20:00, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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August Wilson Theatre

... that 25 years after U.S. president Calvin Coolidge opened New York City's Guild Theatre, U.S. president Harry S. Truman rededicated it as the ANTA Playhouse? Source: Davis, Charles Belmont (April 14, 1925). "Premiere at Guild's New Theater Hailed As Stage Triumph: President Coolidge Signals the Curtain Up on Splendid Production of Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra" Helen Hayes". New York Herald Tribune. p. 14;Calta, Louis (April 25, 1951). "Truman Endorses ANTA Stage Plans; at Dedication of Permanent Home for the Theatre". The New York Times.
- ALT1: ... that 25 years after one U.S. president opened New York City's Guild Theatre, another president rededicated it as the ANTA Playhouse? Source: Davis, Charles Belmont (April 14, 1925). "Premiere at Guild's New Theater Hailed As Stage Triumph: President Coolidge Signals the Curtain Up on Splendid Production of Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra" Helen Hayes". New York Herald Tribune. p. 14;Calta, Louis (April 25, 1951). "Truman Endorses ANTA Stage Plans; at Dedication of Permanent Home for the Theatre". The New York Times.
- ALT2: ... that at the Guild Theatre, the higher an actor ascended, the farther they were from stardom? Source: Bragdon, Claude (December 1924). "The New York Theater Guild's New Theater". Architectural Record. Vol. 56. pp. 151. This is basically rephrased from a direct quote about dressing rooms, which is in the public domain. The quote is "the number of such flights the actor has to climb to reach his room accurately [indicates] his position in the company, for the higher he ascends the farther he is from stardom."
- ALT3: ... that the marquee of New York City's August Wilson Theatre was dimmed to memorialize victims of the COVID-19 pandemic, then undimmed to commemorate a longtime stagehand who was killed? Source: Evans, Greg (November 16, 2020). "Broadway Stagehand Who Fell To Death Remembered As "Force Of Nature", Theater Marquee Undimmed In Honor". Deadline.
- ALT4: ... that New York City's Virginia Theatre lost $500,000 on a renovation to accommodate "the most expensive quick flop in Broadway history"? Source: Rothstein, Mervyn (May 17, 1988). "After Seven Years And $7 Million, 'Carrie' Is a Kinetic Memory". The New York Times.
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5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 14:55, 8 March 2022 (UTC).[reply]

The article is very long so this is only a partial review for now with the review to be finished hopefully within the next few days. For now I think the best hooks are ALT2 and ALT4 (I cannot access either source so I am assuming good faith here). I also didn't find any close paraphrasing. Will also wait the QPQ. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 03:05, 12 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- @Narutolovehinata5:, thanks for starting the review. I've done a QPQ now. Epicgenius (talk) 13:18, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  - Thanks. I didn't find any other issues (all other DYK requirements like expansion start date, length, and hook interest/sourcing are met) so I think we're good to go with either ALT2 or ALT4. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 13:23, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

ALT2 to T:DYK/P2 without image