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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Tomt (talk | contribs) at 22:26, 21 August 2004. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

This is my first page and I'm hoping to improve it. (Good grammar has never been my strong point). I've added links to it on the pages for advertising and musical theater. It could have a list of composers. It would be informative to have a section about the different types of song contents, but I don't feel qualified to write it. There are two collectors of albums (Jonathan Ward and Steve Young) whom I can try to contact for this, if I can track down their e-mail addresses. Tomt 14:32, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

  • Excellent first article, Tomt! I should be happy to take a look at the copyedit side. Don't panic about that kind of thing, because later editors will always spot the inadvertant mistakes. I heard the same On the Media report and saw some parody sites on the Internet (I believe Advertising Age did an article on corporate anthems). The only additions I'd suggest at this point is the musical genres favored. E.g. the material always seemed to feature the Romantic musical Broadway genre (in particular a kind of King and I). Finally, the budgets and the ways that industrial musicals financed the legitimate theater would be nice (alluded to in On the Media). Geogre 15:22, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
    • Thanks! I hope you don't mind, but I changed what you wrote in the history section because I thought it contained a lot of assumptions about the economics. Although we know the pay was certainly good, and the amounts invested to produce the shows was high, we don't know whether industrial or regular Broadway shows had a higher profit. The regular stage shows could run for over a year, while an individual industrial show might only last a few nights. I've replaced what we both originally wrote with some actual budget numbers as you suggested, which are supported by the reference sources. This is looking good! Thanks for putting in the trade show terminology. I unfortunately don't know enough about musicals and Broadway to make genre comparisons. I'll work on making some redirects and disambiguation pages. Tomt 22:26, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)
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