http://www.classicsonstage.com

Submitted http://www.classicsonstage.com to http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/Illinois/Localities/C/Chicago/Arts_and_Entertainment/Theatre/ on December 19, 2002.

The system was a bit temperamental that day, and we're not 100 percent sure the submission went through properly. Can someone check to see if it is in your system?

Any info about the status of this site would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Your site is the only one waiting for review in that category. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

Thanks for checking, uzs980.

Hello,

As you can see it's been quite a while since we've made a query about our submission status. In early Feb we were the only site in the queue for the above category, and even though the "update" date (on the bottom of the page) for the category has changed several times (a circumstance which I realize is not necessarily related to my question) it appears that no new sites have been added to the list for many months. Is there a chance someone might stop by?

Just wondering.

A question:

If we were to submit the site to a TOPICAL category at this point - would that submission totally over-ride the REGIONAL submission? Also, would it be acceptable practice to use the same/or very similar description?

Thanks for your time.

Merlyn

Sorry no change except you have company in the queue now (still under a handful waiting). It is possible the update had something to do with a bad url or something unrelated as you stated. I wish I had better news.

Thanks, Kokopeli, for the reply about the status of our submission.

Any chance for a bit of enlightenment on my other question?

&lt;&lt;If we were to submit the site to a TOPICAL category at this point - would that submission totally over-ride the REGIONAL submission? Also, would it be acceptable practice to use the same/or very similar description?&gt;&gt;

Any bits of wisdom gratefully appreciated.

&gt;If we were to submit the site to a TOPICAL category at this point - would that submission totally over-ride the REGIONAL submission?
No, it's a different category. And a listing in one wouldn't preclude consideration for a listing in the other. (This is an exception to the submit-only-to-the-one-best-category guideline.)

&gt;Also, would it be acceptable practice to use the same/or very similar description?
An editor would probably give a similar but not identical description. (For instance, the Topical description could usefully mention the location; that isn't necessary in the Regional description.) There would be no problem at all if you suggested the same description for both. (It's the editor's job to check and correct it anyway.)

Thanks.

You both have been very helpful.

Perhaps part of the problem (of the delayed listing) is that ... I can't find anything in the site relating to Chicago.

Oh, I see your contact information, but so far as I can see the site is all about mail-order, and my local (Dallas) Children's Theatre would be no more, or no less, interested in that than someone next door to you.

For a business like yours: do you work with local schools or performing groups? A page with content about that _would_ give the site a specific local interest: but anything that would make somebody in Elgin say, "I need to do XXX with a children's theatre, and I'll be in Chicago next week, maybe I should make an appointment to meet this guy while I'm there/get this guy to come out and speak to my committee/etc." would work. (The pictures of productions wouldn't count--they are just as much value -- or as little -- to someone across the country.)

The whole site doesn't have to be Chicago-oriented -- there just needs to be SOMETHING on it that is.

You make very good points. Perhaps we have been "barking up the wrong category" with a regional approach? We'll deeply ponder (ponder in the sense of how to implement, that is) your suggestions. Thanks for taking a look at the site.

I was only addressing the "Locality" listing. It is absolutely clear to me that the site (whatever its local relevance now or in the future) deserves listing SOMEWHERE in either Arts or Shopping (since it is selling a unique artistic product online.) I'd have to explore to find the best place.

Thanks so very much for the further comments and good advice. You're quite right - Certain sites akin to ours ("written theatre products") can be found in both ARTS and SHOPPING - so after mulling over your previous comments I moused on over to ODP and submitted our site to Arts/Literature/Drama/Contemporary/

I took it as a good omen that the submission went quickly and smoothly with nary a bit of faltering on the part of the server.

My only regret at this point is that we didn't make that same submission five and half months ago...oh, well, hindsight as they say...

Your suggestions about a "localization" addendum to our site are still excellent ones; and not necessarily ones that should be motivated by "submissionabilty" but more perhaps by seeing the common sense of an idea that exemplifies simple (local) "marketability."

Thanks again.

True, and as you can probably tell, I'm not concerned at all about submissionability. It is just my experience that most people in the performing arts business do professional things around their home. The ODP is happy to make a contribution to the local culture by making that kind of information visible -- even if we have to kick the performers in question in the seat of the pants to make it available first.