[mb-users] How to enter Musicals?

[Brian Schweitzer]

>
> When entering the Musical Dreamgirls a stumbled upon a problem which a
> cannot find in the wiki.
>
> Dreamgrils is composed by Tom Eyen and Henry Krieger, that's easy.
>
> After that the tracks, I entered the broadway version as a normal album
> and made a lot of AR's to the artists singing the songs. (see:
> http://musicbrainz.org/release/fc092bc2-b243-44ed-abd8-366631b18f86.html)
>
> But when looking at the movie soundtrack I discovered that it was
> entered as a various artists kind of album with a lot of "Jennifer
> Hudson, Beyonce Knowles, & Anika Noni Rose" kind of artists (and some
> errors but that is not the point right now). (see
> http://musicbrainz.org/release/7c9ca4a1-0654-438c-9f81-b668b9cff3fb.html)
>
> Looking at other musicals I saw there is no consistent way of entering a
> musical soundtracks. So (without knowing that this isn't discussed
> before, hit me if it was...) what is the right way to enter a musical?
>
> I vote for the way I did it because it was a lot of work (and looks okay
> to me and the edits will finally end up with the right artists when
> looking for Beyonc? but doesn't turn up when you are looking at the
> releases of Hinton Battle ), and I DO know that I had to change a lot of
> albums in that way, but I really have don't have a social live ;-)
>

It's more that we have very few editors who work on musicals.  They fall
under the (unofficial I know) SoundtrackStyle - but we have lots of messy VA
performer dumps from freedb that simply haven't yet been cleaned up, and
very very few of us who actually edit musicals.  (Plus lots of borked
collaboration artists who were created for only that one musical - exactly
what SoundtrackStyle is intended to avoid...)

http://musicbrainz.org/release/fc092bc2-b243-44ed-abd8-366631b18f86.htmllooks
just great to me - and thanks for doing all the ARs!  :)  I do notice
one minor nit there; it catches me all the time on musicals as well.  Guess
Case sees only the word "Original" and converts it to "original".  Hopefully
sometime GC will be updated to correctly change "original ... cast" into
"Original ... Cast", not "original ... Cast".

Brian (who still wishes we had a separate "has book by" AR to use with
musicals)
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