Best & Worst Broadway Logos

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Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:14pm

BEST:
Cats
Wicked
Mame
Evita
Miss Saigon
Hairspray
The Full Monty
Urban Cowboy (MATT!)
Gypsy (Peters)

WORST:
The Boy From Oz
Mamma Mia
Bombay Dreams
Urinetown

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re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:21pm

Best:
Urinetown
Pippin (the players as the letter)
Passion (the heart)
Miss Saigon
Dracula (the color scheme on that woman is hott)
Caroline or Change
Fosse
Pacific Overtures (revival)
Cats (thought it pains me to say)
Les Miserables
Assassins (OOBC)
I agree with Matt saving Urban Cowboy ::drools::

Worst:
TBFO
Assassins (OBC)
42nd Street
Fame
Into the Woods (revival)
Little Women (hasn't grown on me yet)

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re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:29pm

Not everyone realizes it (as I guess baddadnpa's post illustrates), that the Urinetown logo was a riff on "Solidarnosc," given Urinetown's theme of social revolution.

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Updated On: 2/10/05 at 03:29 PM

re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:41pm

I really LIKED the "Boy From OZ" Logo....it was hot.
CABARET the most recent revival was great too

re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 3:47pm

BEST
Wicked
The Lion King
Aida
Miss Saigon
Hairspray

WORST
Avenue Q
Fame
The Boy From Oz
Mamma Mia
Evita
All Shook Up

I most definitely have issues with my word choices on this board.

re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 4:10pm

My mom.

*Kristen*

re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 4:15pm

I dispise the WICKED logo - it's so hideous and pointless. The earlier versions of the logo that they rejected were all beautiful and great - but the one they actually went with is so wooden and nasty.

I loved AMOUR's logo.

I hate the new LA CAGE logo.

I love SUNDAY IN THE PARK's

Hated the new INTO THE WOODS logo

Loved the revival CABARET logo

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 4:38pm

whiterabbit, just out of curiousity .. .what's wrong with the avenueq logo?

" I don't cause commotions, I am one."

re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 4:38pm

munkustrap..
do you have any pictures or links to the original designs for the WICKED logos...I'd like to compare...personally I like the logo now but I have nothing to compare to...

"I?ve been singing since I was born. It?s something I do everywhere I go. In the shower, walking down the street. I don?t need any impetus to do it. I just sing." - Idina Menzel I don't make comotions,I am one- Idina Menzel as Elphie Defying Gravity for the last time 1:09:05 --not the same with out you!-- Galinda-I'll call you...elphie..is that okay?? Elphaba-well it's a little perky- Galinda-and you can call me..Galinda-

#10

re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 4:41pm

There are logos that work as art like the original Follies and the original Glengarry Glen Ross, a production that I did not like and yet have the poster framed as art on my wall.

Then there the one's that do their job of legibly telling you the title and other salient things like the actors. The best show logo in this vein to me is from Habeus Corpus by Alan Bennett which played the Beck in the mid 70s. Brick red letters on a large white circle with the same brick red as background. There was the name of the play plus about five actor's names, an author and a director that contractually had to appear. Every letter could be read from Broadway, over a long block away. Perfect.

Wicked for me, took to long to get what it was about.

I find the logo for the new Sweet Charity to be in a set of colors that makes me wish for sunglasses.

"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable." --Carrie Fisher

#11

re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 4:44pm

"whiterabbit, just out of curiousity .. .what's wrong with the avenueq logo?"

I just thought it was kinda plain. Avenue Q is a hilarious show and I would've expected it to have more developed logo.

I most definitely have issues with my word choices on this board.

#12

re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 4:46pm

I think Cabaret had one of the best in recent years

I think Wicked's is awful (love the show, hate the logo...)

#13

re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 4:49pm

Follies... DEFINITELY Urinetown!

[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.

#14

re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 4:54pm

This one left everyone saying "huh?"

#15

re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 4:58pm

AMOUR and A NEW BRAIN are my two favorite logos.

Both CAROLINE OR CHANGE logos-the famous Broadway one and the original Public Theatre one with Tonya's face on the head of a penny-are terrific.

#16

re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 5:10pm

Liked:

Les Miserables
Cats
Phantom of the Opera
Into the Woods (original)
Urinetown
Falsettos
Annie
Anything Goes (revival)
Cabaret (revival)
Candide (1974)
Crazy For You
Damn Yankees (revival)
Forum (1996)
Jane Eyre
The King and I (1996)
Steel Pier
On the Twentieth Century
The Will Rogers Follies

Disliked:

Assassins (Broadway)
Big
Little Women
Good Vibrations
All Shook Up
Footloose
Chess
Grease (revival)
Gypsy (2004)
Kiss Me Kate (1999)
A Little Night Music
Man of La Mancha (revival)
Saturday Night Fever
Street Corner Symphony
Sweet Charity
Wicked

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

#17

re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 5:20pm

eeewww! remember this one?

#18

re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 5:27pm

I remember the entire theatre painted in that color and being assaulted with it relentlessly in the show. What was with that parachute thing at the begninning?

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

#19

re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 5:27pm

Not sure about the “best,” but some personal faves:

The original production of “Sweet Charity,” with that great photo of Gwen Verdon looking back at you over her shoulder…

The original album art/London production of “Chess.” It’s so simple (the one lone chess square “defecting” from the rest of the board), but it sums up the wonderfully cynical nature of the score perfectly; everyone’s always looking out for themselves and the only person you can really trust is yourself (“...my one true obligation"). The Broadway logo, on the other hand…

#20

re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 5:35pm

They could have done a MUCH better job on the Julius Cesaer marquee.... it's ugly as hell and the picture they used of Denzel is kinda frightening looking.

"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA

If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...

#21

re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 5:38pm

looking up from computer at the wall... LA BOHEME, LA CAGE [revival] & RENT are on the wall [so is WICKED but the logo isn't that "wow"]

i didn't like the CATS logo, the eyes were okay but not the letters.

#22

re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 5:47pm

WORST
Footloose
Into the Woods (revival)

BEST
Rent
Wicked
Avenue Q
Urinetown
Bare
Cabaret (revival)

#23

re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 5:55pm

best:
Cabaret (revival)
gypsy (bernadette)
chicago (original)
big river (both)
1776 (both)
into the woods (original)

worst
good vibrations
all shook up
la cage (revival)
jeckyl and hyde
assassins (broadway cast)
spamalot (sorry for all those who like it but i hate what they have done to the shubert)

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"when dangers near, exploit their fear" ~ Reefer Madness the Musical

#24

re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 6:06pm

spamalot (sorry for all those who like it but i hate what they have done to the shubert)

Hey, I'm just happy there's a show at the Shubert.

"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA

If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...

#25

re: Best & Worst Broadway Logos

Posted: 2/10/05 at 6:08pm

hahahah true cjr but theres spam covering the theatre!

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