"Looks and youth ain't everything,
Experience is a quality that counts for a lot.
The sad thing about experience is by the time you got it,
It's usually all you've got..."




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Welcome to Belle's Domain!
This is my personal website, filled with all sorts of things that interest me. I've no pretensions to being an ultimate resource in any single topic. This website is my pet! :)
Please feel free to explore, I have extensive photo galleries, Exclusive backstage photos from Starlight Express and We Will Rock You, many rare brochures scanned in. Also Plenty of sections that are being worked on- Info on less well-known shows, Actor tributes- pages dedicated to my favourite performers, character descriptions and cast lists from various shows.
There is also a whole section dedicated to my theatre costumes, my expensive but rewarding hobby is re-creating stage costumes for fun (and even occasionally for money!). Yes, I do occasionally take commissions as well.
Join the forum to chat to my friends and I... If you have any specific questions etc, if we don't know, we might know who would. We;ve got some interesting discussions, and info is posted there as soon as we know it, often before official sources release it!

Please let me know what you think of my site? Constructive criticism is always welcome, especially as there are so many areas of the site still under construction. Any suggestions, donations, naggings, gifts of food or money are always gratefully received! :) If you want to see something I've not yet put up, then email me and nag. It works, honest! :)


UK Tour sub-site!




Updates

Last Updated: 29th January 2007

I'm gradually filling up the gaps in by Starlight Express brochure collection, some gorgeous photos from Bochum 1997 now online - well worth a browse through! Amazingly somehow I never got the 2004 Bochum brochure, even tho I was there! So if anyone wants to sell me a spare one, I'd appreciate it!

13th June 2006
Never believe this "last updated" lark! I always forget to update it! Had loads of new stuff on the site... UK tour 2006 brochures, finished off the character galleries, working on the costumes section (when I should be working on costumes!). What else? Check the forum, I'm more likely to put updates there!

6th January - Happy New Year, everybody!
As ever, a lot of small updates have been going on - all the Starlight Express character galleries are now online. If you ever wanted to know more about Hashamoto, and see lots of pics of him, then I've got the page for you!
Latest addition to the site is a new show page - "Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens" is the most fabulously glittery show, and I'm absolutely hooked. Space Vixen costumes likely to be made in the near future... If you're in london before February 18th, SEE THIS SHOW! YOU WILL LOVE IT!

7th September 2005 - If you've been reading my forum, I've been posting regular small updates there. Over the summer I have overhauled the Cats galleries, and have now finished the Japan, Broadway, US tour and Las Vegas Starlight Express productions. Still plenty more updates coming!
As of october I am moving to college, and as yet do not know whether I will have regular internet access. So there may be a delay in updates (like that's unusual around here!) until I return home. I KNOW that a lot of the pictures in the StEx character galleries are broken! This is because as I've re-scanned the brochures the filenames have changed. I'll repair them when I can, in the meantime, browse the brochure galleries.
My new scanner is a fantastic machine!


17th July 2005 - WELL! Have finally caught my breath after the Open Day, I've scanned in the 2005 Brochure and the 2004 Brochure - just missing the cast list as I don't have it in front of me. Hopefully have more photos from Bochum on their way too! Just need scanner to be replaced - AGAIN - and I'll get the rest of the Bochum photos backlogged online!

30th May 2005 - All sorts of updates have been going on- all the Starlight Express london brochures have been re-scanned, thumbnailed, and generally made nice and pretty. And my *new* scanner has already given up the ghost. I think it saw the pile of scanning ahead of it and committed suicide. Great. Lots of new coding and stuff around too- cast lists for the london brochures, as accurately as I can figure out.
Also saw Starlight tour in Southampton on the 25th... very interesting show, review's up under the UK tour section above!


15th March 2005 - Please, visitors to this site, read the Disclaimer page on the left. I've recently had an issue with an Ebay seller using the names WWRY11, WWRY12 who is selling a "Starlight Express Digital Scrapbook" on Ebay. This contains all the images from my Brochure galleries, three short videos taken from the reallyuseful.com website, and a bunch of corrupted audio files. THIS IS COMPLETELY ILLEGAL and is nothing to do with me, other than I am a victim of his scam in buying this CD to find out what was on it. He does NOT have permission from me to use my scans, and he is breaking Copyright laws by selling the material.

In other, happier news, I have a new scanner! So the photo galleries will soon be upgraded to much higher quality images as I re-scan brochures. However, I will in future be putting a tag on all images, not just backstage pictures. Sorry! If you wish to use brochure photos on another site, talk to me about it.

24th February, 2005 - We went to Bristol yesterday! Lovely place, steep streets. Of course, we weren't there for the cardio-vascular exercise, but to see Starlight Express! Review here, and as usual for me, it's very detailed and rather critical! But I do believe that as I have a right to compliment, I have a right to criticise. And there's so much good in the UK tour, that would be even better but for small details which would be so easy to change! It's very frustrating!

4th February, 2005 - UK tour Starlight Express brochures are out, for the show's third stop, in Bristol. Look HERE for all the pretty photos!
Also have Sims 2 sims up for download from here, as the official site seems to be having existential difficulties.

12th November 2004 - Starlight Express UK tour is now well underway! HERE is some information, and I'll add everything relating to the tour here!

1st October - The We Will Rock You book is finally out, published, available, and has some lovely photos! see them HERE!

Belle's Domain incorporates all my previous sites, including The Stage Door and Belle's Costume Archive.