User blog comment:Belle pullman/Broadway Cast Formatting/@comment-39097528-20190924125021/@comment-39097528-20190924150420

I agree readability is important, but I think the most important consideration should be accuracy. The formatting used above for 1998 will lead to a lot of major inaccuracies if we only have the book to rely on, and misleads the reader into thinking we have more detailed info than what we actually know. For example, the book says Meg Gillentine was Cassandra by Feb 97 and Stephanie Lang was Cassandra by Aug 98. Stephanie Lang could have been Cassandra from Feb 98, but the 1998 table would say Meg Gillentine was Cassandra from Jan to June. I should clarify that the 1999 table I said I preferred is the current one in Broadway Production/Casts, which I think is appropriately vague since we don't have detailed cast info for that year.

As for the years where we have the confirmed cast for certain months, I suppose we could split those months into separate tables... so a standalone table for May 1984 for example, so the reader doesn't have to scroll up to check which month each column corresponds to.

Another option to improve readability is to repeat the months after every few rows so readers don't have to scroll up to check the months. For example: