I checked today to see how many of these “cast” artists currently exist in the database, this is what I was able to find.
Of course most of these artists point to the special purpose artist [theatre]
This is essentially a various artist entity that collects miscellaneous credits. I don’t think what I am trying to do at this point would require a re-write of the theater recording guidelines. I am interested primarily in cataloguing live productions, but because musical soundtracks are almost always associated with a live production, this is a good indicator of potential artists.
I think the first step would be coming up with a consistent way for formatting the artist entity name.. we can go ahead and borrow from the current theater disambiguation comment for consistency… and I think clearly distinguishing the musical title would be helpful…
The Cast of “Wonderful Town” (1953 original Broadway cast)
The Cast of “Wonderful Town” (2003 Broadway revival cast)