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yes I suppose this would work. You also have the option of a blog post to discuss ideas, and throw the discussion open to all editors. There is also a forum, but it tends to be rather glitchy and doesn't always show new posts.

Yes, more details about the sets would be good, a "Virtual tour" around the set. I'd be inclined to start as if centre stage looking downstage, then working clockwise around the set. There's probably enough detailed photos of each major production. It'd make sense to start with the original, although Broadway and subsequent sets were notably different. But with the original set detailled, it would then be easy enough to point out notable differences in later sets. This information will tie in with who made the set in question - Raymond Huessy is responsible for a lot of the sets - how similar are his sets, what are the signature pieces? What has been changed over time with one set?

The big one to puzzle out would be the specifics for NAP 16 / NAP 19 / Palladium (NAP 70 v1) / Broadway - NAP 16 and NAP 19 were merged for the Palladium production (I was taken backstage and saw the crates of left-over pieces) but I'm not sure exactly what was taken from which to create the Palladium set. And then, what, if anything, was added or replaced for the Broadway run?

Incidentally, I can't remember off the top of my head if it's mentioned in the article, "NAP 70" is for John Napier's 70th birthday, not sequential! I don't think there's been 70 different sets built for replica productions, even if all the replica sets had used the licence plate convention, which they haven't...