Changelog

Shows

• All Shows (removed—301 redirect to homepage, otherwise choose Mainstage or Children's Theatre)
• All Marriott Theatre Artists (moved under About as "Our Artists")
• Performance Calendar (removed—list of filtered performances on Mainstage and Children's Theatre pages, as well as show details)
• Mainstage
• Children's Theatre
• Seating Chart
• Listening Devices
• History/Archives (removed—added to bottom of Mainstage and Children's Theatre pages)

Box Office

• Tickets (moved under Shows)
• Performance Calendar (removed—list of filtered performances on Mainstage and Children's Theatre pages, as well as show details)
• Subscriptions (moved under Shows)
• StagePass (moved under Shows from Subscriptions page)
• Gift Cards (moved under Resources)
• Group Sales (moved under Shows)
• Seating Chart (moved under Shows)

Plan Your Visit

• Directions (moved to Contact Us page under About)
• Dining (moved under Resources as "Three Embers Restaurant")
• Overnight Resort Theatre Packages (moved under Resources as "Lincolnshire Marriott Resort Packages")

About Us (Renamed simply About)

• About Us
• Contact Us
• Employment & Auditions
• Costume & Prop Rentals (moved under Resources)
• Donation Requests (moved under Resources)
• Who's Who (renamed "Our Staff")
• Our Artists
• Media Page (removed—added to bottom of Contact Us page)
• History/Archives (removed—added to bottom of Mainstage and Children's Theatre pages)

Resources

• Season Subscriptions (only under Shows as just "Subscriptions")
• Children's Theatre (only under Shows)
• Group Sales (only under Shows)
• Gift Cards
• FAQ (moved under About)

Hidden

• Actor Housing
• Artist Information
• Directions to Marriott Theatre rehearsal warehouse (removed—moved to bottom of Employment & Auditions page under Contact Us)
• Director's Notes (Shows collection field?)
• Discount (Shows/Performances collection field?)
• Eblast (Still need to host images/code or does Mailchimp have you covered at this point?)
• Employment (Is this a thing, in addition to Employment & Auditions page?)
• GDPR Privacy Policy (Still need if embedded in forms and otherwise link to Marriott privacy policy in footer?)
• General Audition Information (removed—added to Employment & Auditions page)
• Group Sales Lunch Menu (removed—added to Group Sales page)
• Insider (ah, hadn't seen this yet when I thought that I added a new "Become an Insider" page under Resources)
• Insiders (information/resources for Insiders?)
• Insiders Discount (Password protect? Perhaps a part of the Insiders page above, if either is still relevant.)
• Production History (removed—added to bottom of Mainstage and Children's Theatre pages)
• Social Media Photos (Anything to see here?)
• Synopsis (Shows collection field?)
• Theatre & Show Information (Still relevant or replaced by FAQ?)
• Ushers (removed—job openings listed under Employment & Auditions page)

Shows

• Mainstage
• Children's Theatre
• Tickets
• Group Sales
• Subscriptions (link to StagePass page)
• Seating Chart
• Listening Devices

About

• About Us
• Contact Us
• News (new)
• Our Staff
• Our Artists
• Employment & Auditions
• FAQ

Resources

• Become an Insider (new)
• Costume & Prop Rentals
• Gift Cards
• Donation Requests
• Lincolnshire Marriott Resort Packages
• Three Embers Restaurant

Hidden

• Actor Housing
• Artist Information (need larger photo)
• StagePass (linked to from Subscriptions page)

301 Redirects

• /shows to / (homepage)
• /our-artists to /about/our-artists
• /calendar to / (homepage)
• /mainstage to /shows/mainstage
• /childrens-theatre to /shows/childrens-theatre
• /seating-chart to /shows/seating-chart
• /listening-devices to /shows/listening-devices
• /history-archives to /shows/mainstage#archive
• /tickets to /shows/tickets
• /subscriptions to /shows/subscriptions
• /stagepass to /shows/stagepass
• /gift-cards to /resources/gift-cards
• /group-sales to /shows/group-sales
• /directions to /about/contact-us
• /about-us to /about/about-us
• /contact-us to /about/contact-us
• /employment-and-auditions to /about/employment-and-auditions
• /props to /resources/rentals
• /donation-requests to /resources/donation-requests
• /whos-who to /about/our-staff
• /media to /about/contact-us
• /faq to /about/faq
• /actorhousing to /resources/actor-housing
• /artist-information to /resources/artist-information
• /directions-to-the-marriott-theatre-rehearsal-warehouse to /about/contact-us
• /general-audition-information to /about/employment-and-auditions
• /group-sales-lunch-menu to /about/group-sales
• /insider to /resources/become-an-insider
• /theatre-show-information to /about/faq
• Artists from /artists/ to /artist/
• Rental items from /props/ to /rentals/

• Full-width navbar, Insider signup bar and footer (main content still centered)
• Requested dropdown menus in main navigation (but no search)
• Duotone icons (YouTube and Instagram, tickets button, performance calendar and ticket)
• Main content off-white to slightly contrast with sticky white navbar (stays pinned to the top of the screen)
• Cards (hover), columns and other section highlights a little darker gray than main content
• Super clean and digestible content in larger font and increased line spacing
• Headings in sentence case and in script, à la logo
• Requested removal of sidebar
• Footer simplified from three columns to two with a light blue background
• Secondary color reintroduced—shift in hue from blue to a purple/eggplant of sorts for buttons, third-level headings, etc.

Homepage

• No dedicated alert—utilize featured slider
• Curtain-up slider, instead of left to right transition (News collection "Featured" switch field to display in slider)
• Insider signup bar moved to above footer
• No link to all shows (all current shows listed) or calendar (removed—list of filtered performances on Mainstage and Children's Theatre pages, as well as on show details)
• Shows filtered to an end time of today or after and in order of closest start time to furthest away
• Entire show (and news) card—poster, show name, date or postponed (new), Mainstage or Children's Theatre icon (new)—is a link (where you can read more and buy tickets)
• Shows and news in columns next to each other, instead of on top of each other
• News in order of newest to oldest "Release date" (and not including "Featured" items displayed in the slider)
• No video (Grease is outdated, but can bring back ... probably below shows and news)

Mainstage and Children's Theatre

• Multiple items slider displaying current shows—filtered to an end time of today or after and in order of closest start time to furthest away (cool, bleeding off the page, scroll additional items across the screen effect)
• List of upcoming performances (poster thumbnail, date or postponed, day of the week and time, show name and note, icons to add to calendar and/or buy tickets) sorted from closest start time to furthest away. Initially showing 12 performances, with a "Load more" button to load the next 24. Visibility of the entire section is conditional upon a show end time of today or later.
• List of past shows—poster thumbnail, show name, start year—filtered to an end time before today and initially in order of the most recent start time to the oldest, with buttons to sort by year or name in ascending or descending order. Placeholder poster art is provided for shows with no poster before 2014.
• Featured image with show name and dates now at the top of the details page—including a cool fade out effect on page scroll (The Nutcracker)! If a "Main Image" is not set, there is no hero section and the show name and dates are simply displayed in the main content.
• Show note (e.g. Streaming) after name and dates (Kiss Me, Kate)
• Year tag/link to other seasons/versions of the show after note, before description
• List of upcoming performances—date or postponed, day of the week and time, icons to add to calendar and/or buy tickets— sorted from closest start time to furthest away after description
• YouTube video after list of upcoming performances (The Princess and the Pea)
• "Characters" and "Photos" headings pin to the top of the screen on the left as their items scroll by on the right
• Each character is listed (still artist profile photo and name), instead of each artist and their multiple characters (which would require custom programming). Visibility of the entire section is conditional upon flipping on the "Characters" switch.
• Media thumbnails are now Instagram-style squares (content centered, cropped from the edges) that still open in a lightbox to view full photos. Visibility of the entire section is conditional upon pictures being uploaded.
• Reviews are now proposed as quotes in a slider that link to the third-party site. Visibility of the entire section is conditional upon flipping on the "Reviews" switch.

Tickets/Box Office

• Reordering and condensing

Group Sales

• Cool new fill in the blanks JotForm with embedded GDPR Privacy Policy (still need a dedicated page?)

Subscriptions

Same

Seating Chart

• Interior photo hero

Listening Devices

Same

About Us

• Links to staff and artists
• Linked Broadway shows and new works

Contact Us

• Integrated directions and maps, rehearsal warehouse, and press inquiries

News

• Pagination (24 stories per page)
• Details page has an "Up next" most recent three stories at the bottom (excluding the current story)

Our Staff

• Simply changed from "Who's Who"

Our Artists

• Circle profile photos (entire card hover in list/grid)
• Profile photo moved to left side of details page
• Marriott Theatre shows moved out of bio and into tags/links to those shows

Opportunity for a personalized cover photo ...

Employment & Auditions

• Not sending people to a separate page for open auditions/updates
• Integrated general audition information and rehearsal warehouse address

FAQ

• Questions simply listed down the page, not hidden under an accordion

Become an Insider

Same

Costume & Prop Rentals

• Simplified options to either start selecting from available shows or inquire via email
• Posters that are not portrait orientation are vertically centered inside of a slightly darker gray box so that all poster cards are the same height
• Posters now include the show name as an explicit label
• No more cumbersome shopping cart! Click on a poster to see available rentals which are now form checkboxes. Clicking anywhere on each item's card—photo, item name, checkbox input—will check the box in the top left corner. Fill out some information at the bottom and submit.
• Rental item photos are now Instagram-style squares (content centered, cropped from the edges)
• Condensed the number of fields, as well as how many are required

Gift Cards

Same

Donation Requests

Same

Media

• Added to the bottom of Contact Us page

Artist Information

• Moved photo to hero

Actor Housing

• Reordering and condensing—including photos which are now Instagram-style squares (content centered, cropped from the edges)

Shows

• No longer a separate "Display Dates" because Webflow has more flexible date fields
• Dedicated "Summary" plain text field for SEO and social sharing
• Instead of each Shows collection item being assigned a cast, Characters collection items are assigned to a show
• Can now bulk upload (and arrange) up to 25 photos (each under 4 MB) straight to a multi-image field (Webflow automatically compresses all images)
• New video link field right in this collection
• "Ticket URL" for shows and performances would make sense. But everything simply links to the Box Office page, correct?
• New "Main Image" that is intended to be a photo at the top of the details page, but can also be poster art (in addition to the "Poster Art" thumbnail image)
• New switch field to mark the show as "Postponed"
• New "Note" field (e.g. Streaming)
• New multi-reference field to link other seasons/versions of the show (named with the year in brackets at the end)
• Director's Notes field?
• Synopsis field?

Artists

• /artist/artist-page instead of /artists/
• First and last name separated for flexibility (e.g. currently sorting alphabetically by last name)
• Profile photo now a circle
• Plain text "Bio" field for SEO and social sharing. If you need additional information or formatting, there is also a rich text "Additional Bio" field.
• You can now assign shows that the artist has performed in that link to the show page
• New Internet fields for website, Instagram, Twitter and podcast URLs

Characters

• Instead of a Casts collection, a Characters collection item has an artist assigned and is assigned to a show.

Performances

• Need to switch on Mainstage or Children's Theatre (even though this is also necessary for the show)
• Date and time are combined into a single field
• Again, we're not actually providing individual tickets URLs, correct?
• Do you want a way to note discounts? Performance level or show level?

Including date/time microdata in the name to differentiate makes as much sense as anything (e.g. 2021-04-15T13:00). But the show name is displayed in lists, so you could let Webflow automatically create "Copy," "Copy 2," etc., then use Webflow's additional Editor columns, like "Start time" for sorting/differentiating.

Reviews

Big proposed change for reviews with a slider of quotes linking to the full review (on the third-party site). Provide the publication name and their review URL and choose a quote.

News

• Removed "Author" field (not used)
• A Single "Main Image" will be used for list thumbnails, as well as the full-width details hero ... so should be larger than 290 x 163 pixels. Facebook recommends 1200 x 630 for sharing, but keeping the aspect ratio would be 1200 x 799. Your homepage slides have been 1140 x 500. (Move all to Facebook's 1200 x 630 / 1.9:1 aspect ratio?)
• New "Release Date" field for more flexible publishing and used for sorting (most recent release date to oldest)
• New "External Link" field to bypass the automatically generated page
• New "Featured" switch to add the story to the homepage slider (and remove it from all other news lists).

Rentals

These are the shows that have rental items available (grid of thumbnails).

• /rentals/rental-page instead of /props/
• The list is sorted alphabetically (A–Z) by the assigned show name, but you may as well match the name of these items
• Assign a show to use its name and poster art
• "Weighting" allowed me to display "Props for Rent" first (out of alphabetical order)

Rental Items

The actual items in the form after selecting/clicking a show poster.

• Same pattern here of assigning a show for filtering
• Only a single image is necessary. Thumbnails are now Instagram-style squares (content centered, cropped from the edges).

Landing Pages

You are not allowed to create static pages in Webflow like we can, so collection pages are a workaround.

• Item name will be used for the top-level page heading
• Optional "Main Image" for the hero, which is 70% of the screen height and 100% width (content centered, cropped from the edges)
• Max 160 characters summary for SEO and social sharing (otherwise Google will try to create a description from page content)
• Rich text description—including headings, paragraphs (bold and italic), lists, links (page, URL, email, etc.), block quotes, images (captions and alt text) and other media, rich media (e.g. Giphy, SoundCloud), and even custom code.

Yes, those are the options available to all rich text long-form content across the site.

Auditions

I started a collection with just the name, summary (for SEO and social sharing) and description (rich text).

Removed

• Casts: Instead of creating a cast of the show's artists and characters, "Characters" collection items are assigned to a show
• Homepage Slideshow: Rolled into "News" collection—flip a switch to "Featured"
• Homepage Video: Removed because Grease was already so outdated, but can bring back
• Insiders: Doesn't appear to have moved past the idea stage (Darling Grenadine placeholder)
• Interstitial Ad: Hopefully also served by a featured news item in the homepage slideshow ...
• Show Media: Leveraging Webflow's multi-image field