Talk: The Threepenny Opera

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I fail to see how this is a valid reference. We have a page for Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are", but that doesn't constitute creating an article for the 1977 album The Stranger, from which it came. — Scott (talk) 17:15, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree. If the song had been performed in the context of the musical, like Fiddler on the Roof, then maybe. But not here. Any performer trivia connections, if need be, can be noted on the song page, but even then, so many Muppet guest stars and cast members have musical connections that it's not generally worth it. -- Andrew Leal (talk) 17:19, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Mack the Knife was performed in the context of the musical, so far as I know. The instrumentation of the song is different in the Muppet productions, than the Broadway ones, but the song is still part of the musical nevertheless. The difference between this and "The Stranger" is that the album doesn't have any further connections than the single song, whereas the musical does. -- Zanimum 17:40, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

No it isn't. By "context of the musical," I mean Kermit or someone saying "Hey, let's do Threepenny Opera!" and explicitly using the characters and sets of the play as a whole. That's not what happened. "Mack the Knife" has become a standard. We don't have a page for The Music Man based on "Pick a Little, Talk a Little." Sorry, Nick. Performer connections aren't enough to justify it. We could find connections for dozens of random songs, but they only get their own reference page if the work as a whole has been spoofed or referenced or recreated (The Sound of Music, for example), or like The Pirates of Penzance, with a medley of several songs from the same show within one sketch. -- Andrew Leal (talk) 17:47, 31 January 2007 (UTC)