Music Theatre Online [Final Report]
Music Theatre Online [Final Report]
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2010-08-24
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Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
Reside, Douglas
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Music Theatre Online (originally the Electronic Broadway Project) was launched
in March of 2010 to coincide with the launch of the Glory Days cast album by Ghostlight
Records. The announcement of the site was frequently tweeted and picked up by the
web-based crowd-edited digital humanities publication, DH Now. The annotation code
has been adapted by the Chymistry of Issaac Newton project at Indiana University, the
audio linking tool has been used for a Danny Kaye web exhibit currently being
developed at the Library of Congress, and the project was the basis for a new grant
application by the project staff to Scholarly Editions Program at the NEH. Although that
application was not funded, grant reviewers acknowledged that the project staff had
demonstrated technical expertise and remarked that “It is attractive that the project
materials are to be made available free of charge on the web in the Music Theater
Online archive.” The site was widely praised by the Twitter-verse, and has been visited
by users from around the globe (including England, Australia, and Japan).