Does anyone know why the Playbills have been in black and white lately.

[HollidayForever]

Posted: 7/11/07 at 4:33pm

This past week I came to the city to see a few shows. I didn't understand why most of the playbills were in black and white. Does anyone know?

[ljay889]

Posted: 7/11/07 at 4:34pm

Simple.

It's cheaper.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 7/11/07 at 4:37pm

The producers ain't wastin' money by ordering color ones.

[mominator]

Posted: 7/11/07 at 4:37pm

Also depends on what shows you are seeing.

[ElFantasma14]

Posted: 7/11/07 at 4:46pm

Doesn't Legally Blonde allready have black and white?

[adrian55]

Posted: 7/11/07 at 4:48pm

As of last saturday, LB still had color.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 7/11/07 at 4:50pm

When I saw Chorus Line on July 1st, I think they were making the transition from color to B&W playbills. I got the usual playbill with "A Chorus Line" in gold on a red background. I noticed others had something different (does anyone know what it was, as I don't remember), and it was in B&W.

[moosepower93]

Posted: 7/11/07 at 4:51pm

i just cam back from the city a few days ago and i saw 5 diffrent shows and only one of the playbills was in black and white. (curtains)

[BrianIdol]

Posted: 7/11/07 at 4:52pm

i do wish they were all always in color,....but seeing as most of them get thrown out or left on the ground; I can understand the b & w.

[jordangirl]

Posted: 7/11/07 at 4:52pm

Wow, Curtains has gone to B&W already? Man I'm glad I swooped into the lobby when the show was letting out one day ~ there was a lonely little playbill someone left on the box office ledge. It's now all autographed and in my home. :)

Updated On: 7/11/07 at 04:52 PM

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 7/11/07 at 5:00pm

Curtains and Frost/Nixon have been black-and-white for a while now.

Legally Blonde just went b&w. Chorus Line, as well.

Off the top of my head: Mary Poppins, Xanadu, Les Miz, Spamalot, Deuce, Spring Awakening, Wicked, Hairspray, and Jersey Boys are the only ones in color.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 7/11/07 at 5:02pm

When I saw "Curtains" I got black and white, but I saw some homegirls with colored ones.

So I followed them and took some extras.


YES.


I love the souvenir program from that show, too. I have to have read Rupert Holmes entry over ten times.

[mominator]

Posted: 7/11/07 at 5:27pm

Wow, I am taken a back by Curtains already being in B&W!

[Dirty_Rotten_Guy]

Posted: 7/11/07 at 5:34pm

By the way, some DEUCE playbills are in black & white.
When I went on Sunday, I got a playbill with color (the letters and trophy in color with the black and white picture). The person standing next to me, though, had an all black and white playbill, including the letters and trophy.
Hm, yeah

[mikem]

Posted: 7/11/07 at 5:38pm

It sounds like A Chorus Line, Deuce, and Legally Blonde all decided to go with B&W Playbills for July. Some of the theatergoers may have gotten June Playbills, which were still in color. So of the shows to open in the 2006-2007 season, the only ones to still have color Playbills are Mary Poppins, Les Miz, and Spring Awakening.

[Lm4dham052]

Posted: 8/15/07 at 9:29pm

Anyone know what shows have B & W playbills now.....I believe Xanadu changed theirs (i'll find out next saturday), did Legally Blonde change to B & W yet?

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 8/15/07 at 9:32pm

Im surprised you still have Playbills. Im so amazed when im in NY that when i leave a theatre there are hundreds of Playbills just thrown to the floor.

[Testing1232]

Posted: 8/15/07 at 9:32pm

"Xanadu" is B & W now as well-- but, the good news is that Chey will be listed in the Playbill within a day or two- no longer just an insert

[Lm4dham052]

Posted: 8/15/07 at 9:40pm

Wickedboy....unlike many of my peers who go see shows i value my playbill...of course i'm not talking about anyone on the boards...but yeah it saddens me when people just throw them on the floor....i know people who can't afford to go to the theater who buy playbills because they are fans of certain shows....

My eyes started to water when i went to see Wicked, some girl threw out her playbill that she had just gotten signed...like why bother seriously

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 8/15/07 at 9:45pm

I have 30 years worth of Playbills- UK and US style. Its worth my life and constantly gets viewed.

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 8/15/07 at 11:18pm

^ I have a similar collection that is viewed often as well. I treat them more as archives, not relics. It's so much fun to look through them.

By the way, I DETEST that when many shows swtich to black and white, they keep the regular logo on the cover, which looks cheap and crappy (ie Little Shop in black and white). Shows should alter the cover design if they opt for the cheaper prints (ie the recent Fiddler revival).

[zepka102]

Posted: 8/15/07 at 11:20pm

Xanadu and Legally Blonde were both B&W last week. I was upset about Xanadu... I wanted that in color!

[Ourtime992]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 12:00am

cue Antonijan's playbill wall in 5, 4, 3, 2...

[altoid06]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 12:58am

When I went to Curtains in June the playbill was already in black and white. It surprised me that the show would have already switched over.

Still looks lovely framed and signed on my wall.

[winston89]

Posted: 8/16/07 at 2:24am

I have a playbill collection as well.however, I don't take care of them well enough for them to be cosidered finanically valuable. I instead look at them as a memento for the show i went to. I just like having that shoe box in my room jam packed with playbills from 11 years of going to the theatre ( I saw my first show Big when I was six which is ten years ago).