Oh my gosh, that is awful! They should just use the logo from the original production.
"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
Regardless of what production it's for, the lettering reminds me of what was used in Grease the movie.
"I don't want the pretty lights to come and get me."-Homecoming 2005
"You can't pray away the gay."-Callie Torres on Grey's Anatomy.
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For me, the main problem is the typeface - it's too early, dating from the 1870s-1880s. And its badly placed, spaced and is too large for the 'window' that holds it.
I like the idea of sepia, but it does make the poster look awfully drab.
I think the FINIANS RAINBOW logo is equally bad.
"Hurry up and get into your conga clothes - we've got to do something to save this show!"
That makes me think of a that a school would use for their production of the show and not one that is slated for Broadway.
"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear"
Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll
For me, the main problem is the typeface - it's too early, dating from the 1870s-1880s.
If it were too late, I could see the problem, but just because the typeface was from the 1880s doesn't mean it couldn't have been used 20 years later in the time period of the show. That's like saying Times New Roman can't be used for contemporary shows. It's not like people just give up and stop using them ten years after they were designed.
Kennedy Center posters have never been attractive. I have four windowcards from the Sondheim Celebration. Sunday and Passion are good graphically, but Merrily and Sweeney are just plain ugly.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never
knowing how
I think if the font and color were changed a bit, and that blue box behind the title was gone, it wouldn't be so bad. It's the blue box that really stands out, in my opinion.
"I don't want the pretty lights to come and get me."-Homecoming 2005
"You can't pray away the gay."-Callie Torres on Grey's Anatomy.
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