Productions

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Inclusion

This list is comprehensive of professional productions meeting one or more of these conditions:

• Located in New York or London

• Produced by a theatre company that has received a Tony Award for Regional Theatre

• Produced by a theatre company that is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) or the National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT)

• Produced by an opera company with a level 1 or 2 budget group designation by Opera America

• Theatre companies or festivals with a history of significant productions

At this time, only productions from the United States or United Kingdom are included. Other international productions may be added in the future.

Shows

For the purposes of making it easier to compare data, Wise Guys, Bounce, and Road Show are all aggregated under the project's final title of Road Show.

Revues are considered major when they have met two of the three following criteria:

• Production on Broadway or the West End

• Having a cast album

• More than three major professional productions

Sources

When gathering information, there are often conflicting reports from different sources. In these situations, information is favored from sources that are likely to be more reliable.

1. Most reliable: primary sources such as a production's web page or program

2. Next most reliable:  contemporaneous reports such as reviews or promotional articles

3. Least reliable: aggregate databases that do not provide sources

Unique Productions

The "Unique Productions" column is a marker to distinguish separate efforts to mount a production. For the purposes of this database:

• Separate productions have at least one of the following:

  • Different markets (e.g. moving from Off-Broadway to Broadway)

  • Significant temporal distance between productions at the same level

  • Different creative teams and/or casts

• Continued productions:

  • Stay within the same market (e.g. Broadway to Broadway or Regional to Regional) or are only in a different market as an immediatly pre-Broadway tryout

  • Relatively quick succession of one location to another

  • Same creative team and cast

Movies are considered productions and as such follow similar rules for determination of "Unique Production". Filmed stage shows are not unique productions, but movie adaptations are.

Studio recordings not associated with a live production are included for the purpose of searchability but are not considered unique productions.

Markets

The designations of Broadway vs Off-Broadway vs Off-Off-Broadway follow the conventions outlined for eligibility for awards. As such, productions in theatres that would normally not be considered Broadway stages are classified as "Broadway" if they were deemed eligible for the Tony Awards.

The designations in the UK are less clearly defined so West End vs Off-West End vs Off-Off-West end generally follows the criteria for their New York equivalents based on theatre size and organization.

The designations of "New York" and "London" represent productions in those cities that do not fit in the above categories, such as concerts or workshops.

The designation of "Regional" represents any non-tour productions outside of New York and London.

Types

Concerts are not differentiated by the degree of staging due to the inherent difficulty both in determining this retroactively and in creating useful and objective criteria by which to separate them. As a result, nearly-fully staged concerts are still classified as concerts and not as revivals.

Casts

For casts, there is often variation in the crediting of minor roles or in the characters utilized for the production. When there is no actor listed for a part, it is marked one of three ways:

• Not credited: a primary source lists what appears to be a complete cast and the part is not listed

• n/a: the part is frequently uncredited and the lack of an actor's name is not likely to be an omission

• Unknown: the part is usually credited and there is not enough information to know if this production did not have this part or if the actor's name is just missing

If the information is coming from a primary source, the actor's name is typically listed as provided. If the information is from a secondary source or an aggregate database, the actor's name is listed how they are most typically known.

Roles are often credited differently between productions. The given list of roles is an attempt to standardize the role names for the purposes of comparing actors playing the same part.