The "Applause" poster/banner ads

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 3:25pm

Anyone else think they look like a TV Guide variety show ad from 1975?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 3:26pm

Sorry, I wasn't able to read in 1975.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 3:39pm

where are they?

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 3:46pm

It's showing up as a banner on BWW.

But here's a small image off the 'Net.





EDIT: "Sorry, I wasn't able to read in 1975."

Oh, Phyllis. So, you have no idea what big band music is, or the Spanish Inquisition or Sputnik, because they were all "before your time?" How simple your tiny world must be.

Updated On: 1/16/08 at 03:46 PM

[nmartin]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 3:48pm

Tonight's guest stars: Charlie Callas and Totie Fields.

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 3:50pm

Totally, nmartin.

I'm hoping when it's bigger it looks a little less like Princess Diana guest-starring on "Donnie & Marie," and a little more like Christine Ebersole doing a musical in NY.

Updated On: 1/16/08 at 03:50 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 3:55pm

Old people are cranky!

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 4:05pm

You may be younger that me, pot, but you're catching up to this kettle pretty fast!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 4:06pm

That's just cause age is slowing you down.

[logan0215]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 4:07pm

Thats not the show's poster

Thats just Saggyboobs McGee who controls the "applause" sign at the Late Show.

[CouldaWouldaShoulda]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 4:43pm

That's some pretty terrible artwork...

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 5:02pm

Princess Diana on "Donny & Marie" right?

[kyle.]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 5:03pm

Most show artwork in New York theatre these days is pretty terrible...

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 5:05pm

"Princess Diana on "Donny & Marie" right? "

Totally...

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 5:15pm

edited Updated On: 1/16/08 at 05:15 PM

[ahmelie]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 5:17pm

Wow. I hate this more than the Gypsy poster.

Which is a lot.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 7:24pm

Absolutely a sagged-boobed Princess Di! Horrible.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 7:49pm

I love how Christine Ebersole, from that ad at least, will be carrying around her Grey Gardens Tony during every performance from now on.

[theaterkid1015]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 7:59pm

Well? Wouldn't you?

[BrianIdol]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 8:17pm

maybe the graphic designers really are on strike?!?!?

[alterego]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 8:20pm

Concept is good but the execution, not good. Still it is better than what they have for NO, NO, NANETTE.

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 8:27pm

"I love how Christine Ebersole, from that ad at least, will be carrying around her Grey Gardens Tony during every performance from now on."

...

Actually I think Applause opens at a Tony Awards ceremony. That could explain why she is carrying one.

...

As for the ad... I "get" it, but what I thought was ugly in the 70's isn't any better today.

[roseaddams]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 11:14pm

It's like Vanna White won a Tony and then decided to return to Wheel of Fortune the next day to continue letter-flipping.

(Yes, I know she doesn't flip letters anymore. I'm old-school for an eighteen-year-old.)

[JulianHookbucks]

Posted: 1/16/08 at 11:18pm

"maybe the graphic designers really are on strike?!?!?"

I agree, Brian. When I first saw it... I couldn't see the title, because I had scrolled too far down the page... and thought it was a new Princess Di Bio-sical.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 1/17/08 at 12:57am

Pretty shade of pink...ugly everything else.