Style/Specific types of releases/Theatre
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Status: This page describes an active style guideline proposal and is not official. |
Trac ticket # 2146 |
Note: This proposal would also rename this guideline from "Musical Soundtrack Style" to "Theatre Style".
A "theatre" release is a recording of a work for the theatre involving music, songs, and/or spoken dialogue, occasionally also including dance. Typically these works are of a musical nature, but they may also be dramatic or comedic.
Basic Guidelines
- The release type should be Soundtrack.
- The release, release group, and track artist should be the composer(s), not the performer(s), lyricist(s), and/or librettist(s).
- Performer(s), lyricist(s), and/or librettist(s) should be indicated using advanced relationships.
- The release and release group titles should exclude extra title information information such as "Original Soundtrack", "Music from," etc., except that:
- The performance cast, with year, should be used in the release title and release group title to aid in distinguishing the correct release.
- Example: Carousel (1956 Film Cast)
- The performance cast, with year, should be used in the release title and release group title to aid in distinguishing the correct release.
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Guess Case lowercases the word "original" within parenthesis, which is incorrect for this guideline:
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- For compilations of songs from different shows being sung by a one or more performers where the songs are not compiled as part of a specific theatrical revue, the release and release group titles should not include the cast information, unless it already appears as part of the title of the release.
Examples
- Applies:
- Studio recording of a musical theatre work
- Recording of a filmed musical theatre work. Theatre Style overrides the generic Soundtrack Style.
- Demo cast recording for a musical theatre work. Note that "Demo" is proper-cased, not lower-cased.
- Live bootleg of a theatre cast with a known performance date.
- Exclude the colon that Live Bootleg Style would normally require.
- If the city is easily identifiable (e.g. Toronto, London, Paris, New York, etc.), other location information may be excluded.
- Live bootleg of a theatre cast with an unknown performance date, where only the performance season is known.
- Barnum (1980 Original Broadway Cast)
- Pacific Overtures (2004 Broadway Revival Cast)
- Zorba (1983 Broadway Revival Cast)
- Original and revival casts, where the same show has been performed (and theoretically recorded) multiple times in the same location.
- Note that "Broadway Revival Cast" is correct, not "New Broadway Cast", as the 2004 Broadway cast is only the "new" cast until the next "newer" cast performs that same show in the same location.
- Does not apply:
- Operas, so Opera Track Style, not Theatre Style, would apply.
- A Broadway (ie, 'musical theater') themed album is not automatically a 'theatre release'.