  In the 18th century in Paris, only two public theatres could officially
perform comedies: the Com{\'e}die-Fran{\c c}aise, and the
Com{\'e}die-Italienne. The latter was much less well known. By studying a
century of accounting registers, we aim to learn more about its successful
plays, its actors, musicians, set designers, and all the small trades necessary
for its operation, its administration, logistics and finances. To this end, we
employ a mass of untapped and unpublished resources, the 27,544 pages of 63
daily registers available at the Biblioth{\`e}que Nationale de France (BnF).
And we take a decidedly fresh look at emerging forms of creation and changes in
the entertainmenteconomy. We developed the crowdsourcing platform RECITAL to
collect and index the data from theregisters, following an emerging trend in
Digital Humanities. RECITAL is built upon the ScribeAPI framework and it offers
a fully-fledged web application to classify the pages, annotate with marks and
tags, transcribe the indexed marks and even to verify the previous transcripts.
We also describe a multi-level data model and to develop a series of monitoring
anddecision tools to support crowdsourced data management up to their
definitive form.
