Talk:Who Cares? (ballet)

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The result was: promoted by Z1720 (talk) 19:40, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

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• ... that George Balanchine choreographed his ballet Who Cares?to songs by George Gershwin, having previously worked with the composer on the film The Goldwyn Follies? Source: [1], p. 678
  • ALT1: ... that Karin von Aroldingen described George Balanchine's ballet Who Cares?, to songs written by George Gershwin, as "sort of like a tap dance on pointe"? Source: [2], p. 270
  • ALT2: ... that the title of George Balanchine's ballet Who Cares?, to music written George Gershwin, came from a song in the musical Of Thee I Sing? Source: [3]
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Gershwin Theatre

5x expanded by Corachow (talk). Self-nominated at 15:32, 8 April 2022 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:

Image eligibility:

• Freely licensed: - Unfortunately, there are issues here. The uploader says "The person is my self and my wife", presumably referring to the photo subjects, but then declares that they're the copyright holder in the license field. Unless they've released the rights (for which there's no evidence), the photographer is the copyright holder, not the subject. They add that "this picture was taken with my own camera", but again, unless they set it up to capture automatically, which is doubtful, this doesn't change anything.
• Used in article:
• Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: I think we could do better on interestingness. The hooks here fall into the common trap of trying to include too much info not directly related to the hook itself. For instance, I'd shorten ALT1, IMO the strongest of your hooks, to ALT1b: ... that the ballet Who Cares? (pictured) was likened to "a tap dance on pointe"? We also have some other options. The sentence Since the orchestration of the score was incomplete, Gordon Boelzner played the songs on the piano offers a possibility, as does staged as a suite of classical dances... with some hoofer steps and showgirl poses. Thoughts? {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 19:07, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

@Sdkb: I'm removing this picture from both here and the article. The other image is too blurry for DYK. For ALT1, I want to keep Balanchine and Gershwin in the hook, so I'm rephrasing it:

ALT1a: ... that George Balanchine's ballet Who Cares?, to songs written by George Gershwin, is likened to "a tap dance on pointe"?

I'm fine with an orchestration hook as an ALT, attached below:

ALT3:... that when George Balanchine's ballet Who Cares? premiered, the orchestration to George Gershwin's songs was incomplete, so some of the music were played on the piano?

As for for other hook suggestions, staged as a suite of classical dances... with some hoofer steps and showgirl poses, it describes the less famous half of the ballet, and I prefer something that applies to the entire ballet when it comes to the description of the choreography. Corachow (talk) 18:16, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 18:22, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

Promoted ALT1a to Prep 3. Z1720 (talk) 19:40, 24 April 2022 (UTC)