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popular_elphie
#0Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 5:43pm

Since we have a "Worst Show Poster" thread, why not have a Best Show Poster thread?

For me, I think that Hairspray and The Light in the Piazza both had great posters. Both get the message across very simply, and are very appealing to me.

So what do you guys think?

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Smaxie
#1re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 5:46pm

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Everyone will say Follies, but...


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Updated On: 2/26/06 at 05:46 PM

cate_w
#2re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 5:46pm

I love the Miss Saigon poster. The hidden face is so cool. I also like the fun and simplicity of the Thoroughly Modern Millie poster.

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jv92
#3re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 5:48pm

Miss Saigon is pretty brilliant, with its hidden quality, but the crack in the Follies statue on the Follies poster is brilliant and makes is the absolute best.

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Musical_nerd
#4re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 5:50pm

Phantom.

It's simple, but gets the point across with the allure of the show.


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blaxx
#5re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 5:51pm

I think the one for Once on this Island is gorgeous.


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Smaxie
#6re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 5:54pm

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Also pretty perfect...


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wonderwaiter
#7re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 5:57pm

Lost In Yonkers has always been a favorite of mine.


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inlovewithjerryherman
#8re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 6:35pm

Smaxie, i LOVE the Nanette poster.

I also think Miss Saigon's is brilliant, as well as Carrie's. I've always thought Cats had a great poster too (as much as i hate the show)I also like the poster for the revival of Once Upon a Mattress w/ Sarah Jessica Parker.

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BroadwayGirl107
#9re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 6:39pm

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kate2
#10re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 6:43pm

I like the Jersey Boys poster.

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WickedlyPerfect
#11re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 6:47pm

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I love "You're a good man charlie brown" from 1999. I like the simplicity but also I love the friendship of Charlie and Snoopy that the poster elludes to

RENT (the older on) is a favorite too. the new one is actually growing on me


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bwayondabrain
#12re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 6:49pm

i like the "wicked" poster- i just remember the first time i saw it how mesmerized with it, and i dunno, it really makes you wonder (with the whole "before dorothy dropped in" thing), and wanna see the show!

i also love LITP, too- very, very beautiful,just like the show!

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ChrisLovesShows
#13re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 6:55pm

I love the ships-as-eyes artwork for the recent Pacific Overtures revival. Just lovely. It's not one of my favorite shows at all, but I bought the poster just for my cube at work. I thought most posters from previous Pacific Overtures productions were just awful.





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BroadwayGirl107
#14re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 6:56pm

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bwayondabrain
#15re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 7:02pm

i also loved the pacific overtures one- that was very, very creative!
and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels also has a wonderful poster

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Dirty Rotten Scoundrel
#16re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 7:08pm

I love the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels poster. re: Best Show Poster.

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Katurian2
#17re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 7:15pm

JERSEY BOYS!


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Updated On: 2/26/06 at 07:15 PM

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popcultureboy
#18re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 7:23pm

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timote316
#19re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 7:30pm

I really like Jersey Boys for some reason. I also love the OBC Rent poster.

LouW95
#20re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 7:36pm

The Anything Goes poster from the Lincoln Center production with Patti LuPone is one of my favorites

JustChillin8908
#21re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 7:52pm

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I like the Las Vegas Mamma Mia poster a lot more than the normal one. I wish they actually sold it as a seperate poster though.

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PitPro2004
#22re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 7:58pm

I have to agree, the POTO window card is simple, elegant and gothic. Totally fits the theme of the show. My other fave is Crazy for You. It's kindy corny, but so was the show! Last but not least...42nd ST because it's made up of the chorus girls...the heart and soul of any dance show!!


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ProducersFan
#23re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 8:16pm

I don't know if I'd go so far as to say it's my favorite of all time, but I love the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels poster. It sums up the entire plot of the show in one elegant graphic. And it's so art deco - I love it. re: Best Show Poster

I also really like the La Cage revival poster - it grabs your attention with all that pink but stays true to the show's style.

Did The Last Five Years ever have a poster? I love the photo on the CD cover - especially how it changes perspective from the front to the back.


"If you start from a place of joy and charm, you can get away with a lot in the second act. It may be that that's my life. I'm not sure." ~Roger Bart

FosseBoi
#24re: Best Show Poster
Posted: 2/26/06 at 8:41pm

Gypsy(Bernedette revival)
Rent(I dispise the new one)
Wicked
Hairspray
Fosse
La Cage(revival)
many that have already been said...

When yall said PIAZZA's, were yall talking about the poster or whats on the CD? I LOVE that picture on the CD, but hate what they used for the poster.


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