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== Coinage == |
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I am pretty sure the term off-broadway was coined by or in relation to experimental The Living Theatre group in the 1950s, though I don't have a reference. Any counter-suggestions welcome. |
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[[Special:Contributions/90.192.207.162|90.192.207.162]] ([[User talk:90.192.207.162|talk]]) 14:46, 10 January 2008 (UTC) |
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== Proposed merge == |
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I disagree with the proposed merge of [[Off-Off-Broadway]]. "Off-Off Broadway" as a term has been used for decades and the distinction between the two is fairly well defined.--[[User:Pharos|Pharos]] 06:49, 9 March 2007 (UTC) |
I disagree with the proposed merge of [[Off-Off-Broadway]]. "Off-Off Broadway" as a term has been used for decades and the distinction between the two is fairly well defined.--[[User:Pharos|Pharos]] 06:49, 9 March 2007 (UTC) |
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Coinage
I am pretty sure the term off-broadway was coined by or in relation to experimental The Living Theatre group in the 1950s, though I don't have a reference. Any counter-suggestions welcome.
90.192.207.162 (talk) 14:46, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
Proposed merge
I disagree with the proposed merge of Off-Off-Broadway. "Off-Off Broadway" as a term has been used for decades and the distinction between the two is fairly well defined.--Pharos 06:49, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
- Hi Pharos, I agree that there is a distinction, yet the articles should still be merged. The two are very closely related. There's no rule that says "one article per noun" -- it's one article per set of related concepts, and if there is too much information to fit on one article, then split. For examples of other articles covering related concepts see Acronym and initialism and Endianness. —Quarl (talk) 2007-03-09 06:57Z
- Those are examples of intimately related topics that are best discussed together. I think there is enough distinct material out there for two very long articles here, though I probably lack the experience to write them. I have attended both Off-Broadway shows and Off-Off-Broadway shows and can testify there is a fair amount of difference— in terms of content, one could well classify Broadway and Off-Broadway together, with Off-Off-Broadway the outlier. As it is, the two articles we have now are a bit larger than stubs and I think can stand on their own.--Pharos 07:21, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
Agreed - Broadway and Off Broadway are both professional theatre whereas Off-Off-Broadway is a very "catch all" term which can refer to anything from a completely amateur production in New Jersey to a non-union production where the actors are paid very little. If any merger were to take place, it should be Broadway and Off Broadway being merged but, frarnkly, they are different enough that both deserve their own articles.
External links
Why are a handful of theaters listed under external links? Since there are too many theaters to list them all (without creating a whole new project), shouldn't the list include none? Or is there a rationale for listing just these few? Grease Bandit 04:27, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
- Grease Bandit -- I agree with you that there are far too many external links on this page, as these are only a select number of theatres, and we should either display them all of display none of them. I'll give it a few days for people to offer a rebuttal, but then I will remove the theatre links. Locke (talk) 02:31, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
- I have removed the excess external links from this page. Locke (talk) 01:43, 2 January 2008 (UTC)