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<<-- See the buttons to the left to access to various useful snippets of information, photos of some of our members themselves, and (most importantly) details of all our previous productions.
This page also doubles as a blog. It is in reverse chronological order
19-Aug-08 Added pages for 2006, with access to programmes, Fawlty Towers and The Odd Couple. Revised a few more pages around this time. I realise I need to start working backwards from the present, as I have a number of photographs and programmes from this time that aren't yet accessible from the site. Let's see what I can manage in the next few weeks. 06-Aug-08 Loot page now has photo galleries added (promo shots and mugshots). Have hived off the WDG Experience article as a separate page. Added in the theatrical "Chain of Command" which proves Stage Managers are the equivalent of God. Minor tweaks and modifications. 08-Jul-08 Detailed Booking Info Page added, outlining how to book and a run-down on the WDG experience. This will be extremely useful for new visitors. Added the Two Into One page currently calling for auditions for the November production. Minor tweaks and additions, as usual. 22-Jun-08 TheatreFest results are online (considering they were only announced three hours ago, I've done well). Events page updated. 12-Jun-08 I've put more year place-holder pages on but without much extra data, but the 1990s all have a page for each year at least, and I've actually added two 1980s pages. Previously there was a huge gap from 1972 to 1996 with absolutely nothing online from then. I have added material for Other Times (1996) and Boeing Boeing (1988). But this now makes room for new material and it's a lot quicker to put something online when I do have material. I am currently going through all the photographs in the 2-drawer filing cabinet that was in the Green Room. There was slight water damage to the contents after the flood, but nothing major has been damaged. Good progress has been made physically sorting the photographs. I may then get a chance to scan some in once they are in some sort of logical order. Help scanning some of this stuff in would be INCREDIBLY valued by myself - any volunteers?? 10-Jun-08 I've been forgetting to update THIS log for some time now. The site has grown a lot more in the last nine months. Programmes are only complete up until 1972, however there are a lot more programmes added at "random" throughout the years. I have been given some older archival material (photos and news clippings) which is online in the relevant places (eg Doctor In The House) and I've added a lot more photographs scattered all over the place (see for example the Summer of the Seventeenth Doll gallery, which is quite extensive, and might be a useful resource for HSC students). 29-Sep-07 Programmes now complete until end of 1970. 27-Sep-07 Programmes now complete until end of 1968. 23-Sep-07 Programmes now complete until end of 1965. 20-Sep-07 Programmes are complete up to end of 1964. The next programme to go on, will be one printed after I was born (what a giveaway!). I've also started a Butler Blog with recollections on the production process. 17-Sep-07 Programmes are now complete to the end of 1963. We are still in the Wyong Youth Hall and despite it being mentioned that the move will be in 1963, the new Memorial Hall wasn't ready for occupation until June 1965. We have been there ever since, of course. 16-Sep-07 Programmes are now up to 1961. 1960 actually saw the first photographs of the producers (ie directors) in the programmes, although this didn't continue at all. Fred Chapman and Elsie Brown have the honour of being the first and second people depicted in a Wyong Drama Group programme. I'll let you know when the photographs re-appeared, it doesn't seem to be until 1968. 14-Sep-07 Still a few more programmes online: I have completed the 1950s now and the next programme I scan in will be from 1960! Thanks to Robyn Weidlich for a few suggestions on how to revise the Pass the Butler Bookings Form. For those into statistics the web site now consists of over 85 megabytes of data and is made up of 3,452 individual files. 13-Sep-07 I've added two pictures from the TheatreFest, made it up to 1957 with the programmes and revised the Pass the Butler dates. I added three more pictures of the flooding on the Flood Pics page and designed a form to email bookings in for Pass the Butler. 10-Sep-07 Scanning in of the older show programmes is now up to 1956. This is a very time-consuming task because I tend to want to clean up the images (which are often mottled photocopies) and this can take some time to get a good result. However looking at some of the results compared to the originals it's amazing how well you CAN clean up a mottled photocopy. Also new on the site is that since the TheatreFest is now in the past tense, it's been moved to "Prior Shows". I have also posted a list of the Award Winners. Communicating Doors has also been moved to the previous shows section. 15-Aug-07 I have forgotten to upgrade THIS page for some months. There have been many changes, including keeping the Events page up to date. But this week I found a lever arch file containing programmes from 1952 onwards in the Green Room. This was taken down to Laycock Street Theatre's Open Day on Sunday 12 August, and I have actually started scanning in the programmes from it and putting them online. So there are now some "Prior Shows" pages starting from 1953. It will take a while to scan all these programmes in and put them online, but I have finally made a start, and we have some archive material from the 50s now online! 14-May-07 A few more programmes have been scanned, Soul Mates is now in the past tense rather than future (so we are looking for an April 2008 performance now, too), and I have added some more text around the place. Don't forget to look for "Prior Shows" for most of this new material. 17-Apr-07 Have put a large amount of material gradually over the last month. The archive has material now from 1997 to 2002, and is (apart from photos - can anyone give me any?) fairly complete with regard to programmes. There is bonus material when I have access to it. I particularly need photos of plays - production and in rehearsal - to put online. Please email me at the address at the foot of every page... 13-Mar-07 Have done a number of small changes, and added more material from the late 1990s. Deleted a few Theatre Fest pages (by request). 08-Mar-07 We now have an August Production, and so some preliminary information is available for that. I have done a lot of small tweaks this week, touching up the expression, and adding a few snippets of essential information that has been previously missing (eg Meeting information). 27-Feb-07 Added the XtrAct page, publicising these Drama Classes for Youth, run by three conscientious members of Wyong Drama Group. This page itself has become too long, so I creamed off the historical entries, and they are on their own page now. 22-Feb-07 Looking back at the site it is interesting to note that it now has over 70 megabytes of files behind it, and consists of 110 pages. More material is on the way as I start to scan in old programmes and look for photographs. Take a look in the years 1997 to 1999 for new additions, which I won't otherwise mention here. 19-Feb-07 Added the Group Shots page. Added even more What! E-News. All the issues I have are now online (about 75 of them). Added the Love Letters (1997) programme. 18-Feb-07 Added another half-dozen What! E-News issues. Added a links page. 17-Feb-07 Put up quite a bit of material from The One Day of the Year. Put up material from Run For Your Wife, Fourth Wall, Wanted, One Body, Life Goes On, Love's A Luxury and several Bush Bashes. Added the Blithe Spirit Programme, previously missing. Added the What E-News archive containing Rose Cooper's fortnightly What E-news! reports, going back for nearly a year so far. I will be putting more issues online when I can get a chance to upload more. I now have nearly EVERYTHING I HAVE ON MY COMPUTER online. Of course I will proceed to scan in more photos and programmes in the fullness of time adding to what's on my computer, but for now I haven't got much more material to put up. (Apart from the Financial Reports which are omitted because they are commercial-in-confidence). So, I need YOUR help to provide info for the shows we have little or no material of. Check out the website itself for the shows where we need more material. The object, in the longer-term, is to have a programme, poster, press releases, cast photos and production photos online for as many plays as possible. We have, by the way, produced over 180 different shows since 1952, so this task will never be complete.
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