1. To promote interaction, cooperation, and communication among those interested in improving Wikipedia's coverage of musical theatre.
2. To improve the quality of the articles on musical theatre to Featured Article status.
3. To make Wikipedia the foremost compendium on the subject of musical theatre to be found on the Internet.
   

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• 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

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Musical Theatre:  ·  history ·  watch ·  refresh · Updated 2018-07-11 Ongoing Add new articles for musicals referenced by Wikipedia that don't have their own articles yet. A list of musicals needing articles is here. Create articles for Tony Award and Olivier Award winners - actors, directors, authors, orchestrators, etc. Add {{ Musicals-project}} tag to articles for relevant performers, composers, writers, directors and choreographers that do not have the project tag. Add references to articles. See WP:CITE and WP:RS. Improve articles to Good Article status and eventually to Featured Article status. Add {{ Infobox Musical}} to articles in need of an infobox. Participate in our Collaboration of the Month Find images for Category:Musical Theatre articles needing images and Category:Musical theatre articles missing an image in infobox.

Articles for deletion

• 13 Mar 2023 – Asa Elliott ( talk ·   ·  hist) AfDed by Scope creep ( t ·  c) was closed as delete by Liz ( t ·  c) on 20 Mar 2023; see discussion (5 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 20 Mar 2023 – The Night That Made America Famous ( talk ·   ·  hist) PRODed by Just Another Cringy Username ( t ·  c) was deproded by Loriendrew ( t ·  c) on 20 Mar 2023

Redirects for discussion

• 18 Mar 2023 – Some Like It Hot - musical ( talk ·   ·  hist) → Some Like It Hot (musical) was RfDed by 35.139.154.158 ( t ·  c); see discussion
• 15 Mar 2023 – Sean Driscoll ( talk ·   ·  hist) → Food, Glorious Food was RfDed by Pppery ( t ·  c); see discussion
• 05 Mar 2023 – 101 Dalmatians (upcoming musical) ( talk ·   ·  hist) → 101 Dalmatians (2022 musical) was RfDed by Steel1943 ( t ·  c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 17 Dec 2022 – Glynis Johns ( talk ·   ·  hist) was GA nominated by Annoyed-Briefs-in-Jenkins ( t ·  c); start discussion

Peer reviews

• 09 Jan 2023 – Hair (musical) ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been put up for PR by Jaydenwithay ( t ·  c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 20 Mar 2023 – The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) ( talk ·   ·  hist) is requested to be moved to The Phantom of the Opera by TartarTorte ( t ·  c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 19 Mar 2023 – Draft:Policy Man ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by FloridaArmy ( t ·  c)
• 09 Mar 2023 – Draft:Sarah Soetaert ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Corneliuschronicles ( t ·  c)
• 04 Mar 2023 – Draft:Jerusha Cavazos ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ian Taylor Brooks ( t ·  c)
• 16 Feb 2023 – Draft:John Riddle (actor) ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by HitroMilanese ( t ·  c)
• 19 Jan 2023 – Draft:Braden Allen King ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Theatreman90 ( t ·  c)
• 14 Jan 2023 – Draft:Starry (musical) ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by ForsythiaJo ( t ·  c)
• 08 Jan 2023 – Draft:Sisters Grimm ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Joannaalexa ( t ·  c)
• 07 Jan 2023 – Draft:James Dale (musician) ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Teddybertin ( t ·  c)
• 08 Dec 2022 – Draft:Raphael Renè Jacobs ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Lesya Franko ( t ·  c)
• 15 Nov 2022 – Draft:Je'Caryous Johnson ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Tvfilmmusicfan ( t ·  c)

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See also:

• WikiProject Theatre News
• WikiProject Dance News

Inclusions

Any and all articles pertaining to Musical theatre on Wikipedia including, but not limited to:

• musicals (including revues and Victorian burlesques, but excluding musical films)
• composers, lyricists and librettists
• directors and choreographers
• producers
• performers
• genres ( rock musical, Edwardian musicals, etc.)
• songs from musicals and cast albums

Exclusions

Articles pertaining to:

• theatres, ie venues - these form part of the WikiProject Theatre
• musical films – these are covered by the very large and active WP:FILM project.
• operettas - these form part of the WikiProject Opera, although if it is a grey area, there is nothing wrong with categorizing the work in both places. Some of the English-language operettas, however, have been categorized as musicals, such as some of those by Herbert, Lehar, Friml and Romberg.
• Gilbert and Sullivan - these are covered by WikiProject Gilbert and Sullivan
• operas - these are covered by WikiProject Opera

The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Theatre.

Similar WikiProjects are

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Theatre
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Films
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Gilbert and Sullivan
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Richard Wagner
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Dance
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Literature
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Arts