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Next two cards: Anita and Breathless!

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/TarotDecks/comments/1r9iey5/two_more_cards_for_my_sondheim_musical_tarot/

joevitus said: "BrodyFosse123 said: "This is the original Playbill cover for the original 1975 Broadway production and the 2 different ones issued for the 2000 Broadway revival:

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The original is deservedly iconic. The trouble with the other two is that they seem to be referencing the famous lips--which are a visual from the film, not the stage show. I like the new logo better than either of these two, though I'm still not crazy about it."

The red lips predate the film, though it made them the most famous: the stylized black-and-white figure with the red lips dates back to the Roxy production (which sometimes used a color version as well), if not earlier. If anything on earth is synonymous with Rocky Horror, it's the red lips, and I don't consider it a movie-exclusive image.

It's very much like the Star Wars conundrum: audiences historically love Star Wars, but historically HATE any other (non-anime) science-fantasy/space-opera. So it has become, in the mainstream, more or less a genre of one.

I wonder if there's some legal thing going on where they don't have the rights to any of the classic iconography or fonts? It's also notable that they aren't billing the show as "Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show," which I believe has been the official legal billing for the last twenty years or so.

My understanding from talking to Filipino friends is Here Lies Love is to them much like West Side Story is to modern Puerto Ricans: they allow and appreciate it, but don't exactly EMBRACE it, and they think a Filipino creative team certainly wouldn't have created a fun musical about the Marcos regime, let alone enthusiastically revived it.

New card prototypes this week: Into the Woods, A Little Night Music, and a double dose of Evening Primrose! (I got a sneak peek of what's coming next, and Dick Tracy will feature in the next drop.)

https://www.reddit.com/r/TarotDecks/comments/1r1hvie/im_continuing_making_art_for_my_sondheim_musical/

He's a podcaster; I'd heard of his show but I hadn't heard of him. It's going to be an interesting experiment, because like I mentioned earlier, the format for this is "big budget podcast/NPR," so I wonder how someone whose work is IN that genre will do with the stage show.

This show is going to sell like crazy in licensing, but is probably going to be put on somewhat rarely, because the music rights will make licensing the show prohibitively expensive for many companies.

Between the costume stylings and the overly saturated "bisexual lighting," they look like the love interest characters from those Chinese sci-fi dating sims (Love and Deep Space, etc.)

I sent the photo to the two girls I know who play those, and they both agreed with me.

The first books, the dozen or so by Baum, are now public domain. 

Flop or not, I'd bet that the reason for the film to exist is to keep the Wicked/Oz visuals in the public consciousness perpetually enough that Universal can make one of its theme park realms Oz.

A series of flop Dark Universe reimaginings of their horror staples turned out to be nothing more than extended commercials for the Dark Universe theme park realm... and from what I hear, that place is EXTRAORDINARY and an instant fan favorite, so it was worth the gamble.

I was always curious about Antonio Banderas in the role.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TarotDecks/comments/1qjfzat/sondheim_musicals_tarot_art/

 

This is blowing up on Reddit and in a theatre archivist group I belong to, so I'll share it here. My friend and collaborator, the artist @smee_bucket, loves tarot art, and drew sketches for a Sondheim-based deck last year. When they shared the art on Reddit, people immediately responded to it, and it's been popular enough that they've decided to continue work and develop the full deck.

Just take a look- if you like it, I'll be sure to post an update when more art is created and the deck is available! (Beck, the artist behind the Smee Bucket branding, is also collaborating with me on media for my musical podcast, which I'll be posting about later this year.)

Magenta’s reputation looms huge for a character who canonically only has six or seven lines. It’s a pure vibes role.

Genuinely one of my favorite pop culture personalities. 

Fun fact: he's the "pimp" in the infamous photo of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, tripping on shrooms, dressed as Britney Spears and J-Lo at the MTV Music Awards.

It’s a double meaning also: her name was Gypsy Rose, but it’s also the story of a group of old-school “theatrical gypsies,” nomadic hustling dancers with nowhere to hang their hat but backstage. We don’t call them that anymore, but it’s theatrically relevant to the time.

Plus if they're filming, I'd bet on them replicating the Jamie Campbell Bower reveal in the final moments.