Playbills

I've been working on getting a headstart on the playbills... 

it's kind of a boring task to scan them (without destroying the original), reformat the pages, crop the scans and resize the pages to fit the standard size I set for the website.

Ski Dubai

While not perfect, I think the scans are fairly readable, making higher resolution scans would probably make them better, but then the files would be so big, loading the page might take too long... So, sorry I decided to compromise, the small print had to suffer the consequences.

I've added 5 new playbills today: Blackbird, August Osage County, Ski Dubai, I Sailed with Magellan and Graceland.

I Sailed with Magellan

These plays all hold great memories - which made the task more pleasant but also slow because I couldn't help but stop and read every now and then. Some of these plays are already added as an individual play-page to the accompanying website (at theatermusings.com), the others will follow soon.

All of these will get their own blog entry with my own thoughts and impressions of the play.... later...

   




Theatermusings.com

tinkering away

still tinkering away with the basic pages! I need to stop, and add some content before I drive myself mad...I think I'm happy enough with the blue print pages, need to make some choices on the photo album but I need to do some major collecting on suitable photo's for many plays anyway so the photo pages will tag along later mostly.

I'm pretty pleased with the Playbill feature I added, anyone reading here, please go ahead and have a look! any and all comments on the whole site are welcome of course. I'm particularly interested in any comments on the playbill, which photo album is preferable and which blog-page ... I've integrated this blog in two different ways into the page, am not really satisfied with either but one of them will have to do I think. Also have a look at my attempt at creating a 'tag cloud'!

anyway... I will move along with content in the meantime, probably Dublin Carol will be next and for the Artist... I think I'll go with Michael Gambon.

the start of things

I've been working on setting up a website to chronicle my Theatre experiences, plays I've seen, reviews, info on favorite artists and such... it's been an interesting experience to say the least, so many possibilities to dress up a website, too many as it turns out since the whole thing was turning into a carnival of special effects! I'm tuning things down again, still looking for a good way to publish a copy of the Playbills and have not found the ultimate (for me) Picture Gallery but I will soldier on regardless. I have started off by creating one play page and one artist page, they are supposed to be a blueprint for all future pages. If you have any comments, no matter if it is style, color scheme, content, missing stuff or too much, please let me know! this is my first real attempt at building a site, I will walk happily into all the traps that are cliche for novices I'm sure.

Blue print play page is the magnificent play Blackbird, not a very happy play, dark drama if you will, but for me still a love story of sorts. One of my all time favorite plays, hence it's selection to be the blue print play page. Blue print artist page is the multi-talented Hugh Laurie, simply because he is an inspiration.

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