By Charlie Miller, Resident Multimedia Specialist

If you haven’t seen our Online Fortune Teller yet, you MUST go check it out!

Here’s the deal: I wanted to create something entertaining and interactive online that

Kathleen Brady as our Fortune Teller

would allow audiences to browse through the season’s plays and learn about the different aspects of the productions. We came up with different categories and realized it would be fun for people to choose a category and find their play from there. There are some fun interactive card tricks on YouTube and from that we decided to turn the categories into tarot-like cards, inspired by the awesome season artwork. But then who would read the cards?

Growing up in Denver, I saw a lot of productions at the Denver Center Theatre Company. One of my favorites was Thorton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth, which was produced when I was in high school in 2002. I’ll never forget Kathleen Brady (a favorite resident actor) as the Fortune Teller in that show. When I found out the costume was still in storage and Katheen was willing to do it, all of the pieces fell into place and the online Fortune Teller was born!

Well, first it took many hours of planning, filming, editing, and programming. Using 181 cards in her deck, the Fortune Teller invites viewers to choose categories of plays that pique their interest. Each category leads to another set of options, and eventually the Fortune Teller predicts which of the Denver Center’s ten productions the viewer will attend. The Online Fortune Teller is comprised of 62 final videos, averaging 55 seconds each, that are linked together using 188 YouTube buttons. With dozens of categories from which to choose, there are 124 possible outcomes.

I am really excited about the Online Fortune Teller because it is a fun and interactive new way for audiences to explore the plays in our season. We are always trying to find new methods of engaging people, and these interactive videos are really unique. Plus, Kathleen Brady is hilarious!

Click here to try it out:

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