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Posted: 7/21/20 at 5:54am

Hi All,

I just had a memory of a (possible) NYT article that explored all the potential artwork designs for the La Cage Aux Folles revival and how much I loved seeing them all.

Ive done a bit of searching and have found some Hamilton, Hadestown and Frozen developments - just wondering if there were anymore?

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Posted: 7/21/20 at 6:03am

I remember one for Amélie and every other design was better than the one they used.

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Posted: 7/21/20 at 7:15am

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I think this was the pre-broadway poster for Wicked??? Might have given away too much of the plot.

- NYTimes did a profile of James McMullan about his posters for Lincoln Center Theatre, including a fascinating development of "The King and I"

- David Edward Byrd chronicles a few of his poster designs including "Follies" on his website.

- In the "Miss Saigon" documentary theres a section where Cameron Mackintosh talks to Russ Eglin about his logo/poster design for the show.

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Posted: 7/21/20 at 10:15am

I hope self-promo is ok - I'm also fascinated by unused/concept Broadway artwork and keep a lil Pinterest board of stuff I come across :) if you fancy a gander!

Updated On: 7/21/20 at 10:15 AM

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Posted: 7/21/20 at 10:45am

Can never figure out how to post images on here, but I remember seeing initial artwork for Mary Poppins that was much different than what was used for broadway and what they are using currently.

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Posted: 7/21/20 at 10:48am

You can always copy the URL of where you saw the image and people can click through to it.

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Posted: 7/21/20 at 11:19am

I can’t find them, but I remember two articles on potential artwork for both Wicked and King Kong. I think there was at least 4 or 5 for each.

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Posted: 7/21/20 at 11:43am

I remember one for the Ragtime revival as well

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Posted: 7/21/20 at 11:46am

jvoom said: "I hope self-promo is ok - I'm also fascinated by unused/concept Broadway artwork and keep a lil Pinterest board of stuff I come across :) if you fancy a gander!"

This is so fascinating and cool! Thanks for sharing!

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Posted: 7/21/20 at 11:59am

NYT also did one of these for China Doll, everybody's favorite play of 2015!

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/theater/selling-china-doll-the-art-of-choosing-the-art.html

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Posted: 7/21/20 at 12:11pm

Here are the Amelie designs.

https://joseph-becker.com/amelie

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