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Gypsy marquee
Londonskyguy
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Londonskyguy
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#52re: Gypsy marquee
Posted: 1/27/08 at 11:24pmMaybe they're going for chic? Sleek? That sorta thing.
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#53re: Gypsy marquee
Posted: 1/27/08 at 11:37pmYuck. I don't like it. It lacks the Mama Rose spark.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#54re: Gypsy marquee
Posted: 1/27/08 at 11:40pmShe's Broadway's greatest star?
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#55re: Gypsy marquee
Posted: 1/28/08 at 12:01amWhy do any of you even care? It's Gypsy. It's Patti Lupone. Been around Broadway for 30 years and to this day have never seen hordes of people rushing to a theater because of the marquee or avoiding one because of it. The box office opens tomorrow. By the time the show opens all the frames will be full of reviews and pictures including the big billboard on the front the theater. No matter how plain it is, it still beats that ridiculously ugly musical instrument, feather boa, kleig light mess of a logo the Bernadette Peters production had.
#56re: Gypsy marquee
Posted: 1/28/08 at 12:02am
I just don't see how ANYONE with a Broadway infused marketing brain could think:
PATTI LUPONE + GYPSY = DARK BLUE!
It's just boring as all heck.
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"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#57re: Gypsy marquee
Posted: 1/28/08 at 12:05amI think it looks FINE. But I don't get the dark blue either. I think it would be awesome if just the PATTI LUPONE Gypsy lit up at night, like someone said earlier.
#58re: Gypsy marquee
Posted: 1/28/08 at 12:05am
Well, they did eventually change Bernadette's to something more fitfully glorious.
It went from this:
To THIS:
Smart move.
Hopefully the producers of this production will make a similar move.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
RyToast1
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/07
#60re: Gypsy marquee
Posted: 1/28/08 at 9:36am
"It looks like a fake revival slapped together simply so Patti can say she played Rose on Broadway. It's so bland and careless you really get the sense that the production's reason for existing is not to give the audience something meaningful but to make the star's dream come true"
^^IT IS!!!!!!!!!^^
broadwaybaby086
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/06
#61re: Gypsy marquee
Posted: 1/28/08 at 10:00amIt's hideous. They need to pull a Grey Gardens and change the artwork, except in this case it would be doing the production a favor, not a disservice.
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#62re: Gypsy marquee
Posted: 1/28/08 at 10:40amApparently a giant version of the poster is going up right now in Times Square. If that's the case, this is definitely the final artwork.
RyToast1
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/07
#63re: Gypsy marquee
Posted: 1/28/08 at 10:45amMy heart is breaking even more, I'll definitely be walking to Times Square today on my break to see it for real.
#64re: Gypsy marquee
Posted: 1/28/08 at 10:48amI'm going to go look when I get out of class.
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DrTheatre
Broadway Star Joined: 9/23/05
#66re: Gypsy marquee
Posted: 1/28/08 at 11:45amHas anyone seen the Marquee in Times Square yet?
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Brick
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#68re: Gypsy marquee
Posted: 1/28/08 at 12:02pm
It looks like a fake revival slapped together simply so Patti can say she played Rose on Broadway. It's so bland and careless you really get the sense that the production's reason for existing is not to give the audience something meaningful but to make the star's dream come true"
^^IT IS!!!!!!!!!^^ "
Um... For real? I think if it was so easy getting a production mounted of anything she wanted to do, she wouldn't have waited until she was 60. If it's anyone's vanity project, it is Laurents'. He is why it is happening. He's got the power, he's got the vanity, now he's got the last GYPSY on Bway in his life being one he likes.
I'm waiting for the board to blame Patti for global warming.
#69re: Gypsy marquee
Posted: 1/28/08 at 12:07pmYawn on this one....VERY underwhelming, but I think the show speaks for itself. Lupone....Gypsy....nuff said.
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#70re: Gypsy marquee
Posted: 1/28/08 at 1:20pm
I'm waiting for the board to blame Patti for global warming.
over the course of a minute, I giggled, thought "but she drives a Prius!" and then laughed at myself for coming up with an actual response.
anyway, I...find the artwork rather bland, but as amoni said, it's not going to stop people from seeing the show. I know I already spent an obscene amount of money on tickets. artwork doesn't decide whether I'll see the show, but it does factor in when I buy posters for my room. poor Patti LuPone Gypsy.
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DrTheatre
Broadway Star Joined: 9/23/05
#71re: Gypsy marquee
Posted: 1/28/08 at 3:51pmI guess nothing is up yet, uh?
"In the U.S.A.
You can have your say,
You can set you goals
And seize the day,
You've been given the freedom
To work your way
To the head of the line-
To the head of the line!"
---Stephen Sondheim
RyToast1
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/07
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#74re: Gypsy marquee
Posted: 1/28/08 at 4:12pmIt would be cooler if GYPSY was in actual lights, not just painted ones, but real ones.
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