User blog comment:MadMaxArtist/Timeline *Update*/@comment-3182821-20170519155959

it's such a complicated one! I like this for clarity of what Joe Bloggs did when - but it loses out on seeing who was working with who, and not too clear on listing like - everyone who's played Mungojerrie. As a back-end database it's great, and I can see in proper spreadsheet format it'd be really useful where you can order by different criteria - alphabetise by the character column for instance, or by date. It'd be a fantastic resource - although there's a potential issue some performers might be a bit cagey about why they left, having that information needs to be handled sensitively.

I'm not convinced this is the format for the public facing wiki though... I'd think this would be best drawn up as a google doc, perhaps, and we then update our static coded pages from there? The other bit of information that is only implied here is who replaced who, which is related to my interest in who was performing together.

(and it just occurs to me how we really should be archiving the Starlight cast lists that get posted on twitter!  That resource would be sorely missed if it disappeared!)

I'm not sure if I have anything particularly productive to suggest beyond what we've already talked about, having expanded cast tables much like we currently have on the Broadway revival page, and chop them into 12 month periods for the sake of sanity...