Prioritisation of multi day events

Maybe this is more of a feature request as I don't know of a way to do this yet? (didn't there used to be a feature request menu item? Where'd that go?)
but anyhoo, I have a number of multi day events in my iCals - say a show that last plays from Thurs - Sat and I am planning on attending on the Friday but still want to have the other days in my iCal in case say other people ask me when its on, but to differentiate them somehow by assigning them a lower priority.
The feature I would like would be an ability to 'fade out' each event so that a clashing event on a day when the show is on but I'm not attending it, is more obvious
What do you reckon guys?
Cheers
JR

Interesting. I hadn't noticed that before.
Personally I would still submit it under the iCal category: http://www.apple.com/feedback/ical.html
Just note in your comments that your are using version 4.x
You could also file your feedback under the Mac OS itself as iCal is a component of the OS: http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html but I think keeping it under the iCal heading would be best.
Cheers.

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