Talk:On the Town (musical)

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WikiProject Musical Theatre tasks: Help out with one of the WikiProject Musical Theatre tasks below. You may add your name to the Participants list to the right. edit this Open Tasks template 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.

Contents 1 Freed Unit? 2 Location Shooting? 3 High school 4 Musical Numbers

[edit] Freed Unit?

Should this article explain what that is?

I linked to the Wikipedia article on Arthur Freed, which has a brief explanation of the "Freed Unit". JeanColumbia 19:39, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Location Shooting?

The previous version's statement that the film On the Town was the first to use location shooting seems pretty far-fetched (what about Nanook of the North?); it was at the time unusual to combine location and studio footage, especially in a musical, and I've updated the text to reflect that. Robert 13:47, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] High school

Is a high school production really notable? Because if it is, we'll have hundreds of these paragraphs on pages like Oklahoma!, Annie Get Your Gun, Fiddler on the Roof, etc. (Incidentally, "flawless performances" is a biased statement). I've removed the paragraph. Keppa 03:08, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Musical Numbers

This list is extremely misleading, as it includes the show's songs, songs written for the film that are never used in stage revivals, and one song cut from the show, all without any identification to warn the reader that this is a composite list. I recommend breaking it up into separate lists or using parenthetical IDs. Fred Lane 18:48, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree, the list is misleading. I split it into Broadway and movie. Will check with revival data to make sure the Broadway list is correct. JeanColumbia 17:25, 9 January 2007 (UTC)