Favorite Marquee?

[Princeton78]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 5:43pm

Ok boys and girls...I know it's been asked before, but I'm pondering using a Broadway marquee as my desktop background. Any favorites? It could be contemporary or classic. Heck, it could even be a West End marquee....

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 5:44pm

For some reason, I just love the Shubert marquis. Not the current SPAMALOT logo, but the outside design of the theatre and the layout of posters.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 5:46pm

Grrr I can only think of marquees that I hate.
Updated On: 4/15/05 at 05:46 PM

[Princeton78]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 5:50pm

BobbyBubby...
Which ones do you hate?
And Munk..I agree about the Shubert.

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 5:52pm

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE the marquees used at Studio 54.

Updated On: 4/15/05 at 05:52 PM

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 5:52pm

I hate the Belasco marquee - SO ugly.

[WISHIHADATONY]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 5:54pm

the Shubert. and maybe the Wintergarden, .....but the Shubert.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 5:54pm

Yes. I adore the Wintergarden, and I also enjoy the Broadway.

[hannahshule]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 5:54pm

Shubert

[apdarcey]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 5:55pm

the plymouth marquee makes me cry..














there could be a connection to the show that's currently playing there?

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 5:55pm

Most of the ones on Broadway now. I hate the marquees for: Little Women(Ugly), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (cheap looking), Spamalot (looks like a swap meet meets a strip club meets not funny), All Shook Up (too yellow)...

I quess I enjoy the marquees for Hairspray and Ave Q the most out of the ones out.

[Princeton78]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 5:55pm

The Winter Garden has such a prominent marquee. You always know what's playing there.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 5:55pm

The Palace Theatre in London is extremely beautiful.

[Carl Magnum]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 5:56pm

Does anyone have a picture of Studio 54 with the Streetcar Marquee?????

[Princeton78]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 5:56pm

Anyone miss the flag at the Neil Simon for "Hairspray" which was replaced by the giant spray can? I was partial to the flag actually.

[Princeton78]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 5:57pm

Carl...
Go to playbill.com and run a search with the words 'marquee' and 'streetcar'

[WISHIHADATONY]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 5:58pm

and I think the Shubert theater is one of the very few left where you can truly have your name in actual LIGHTS. Real light bulbs. Not the illuminated signs, but real live LIGHTS. ...Barbara Cook mentions this on one of her cds. She is very right.
"Gee I'd like to be, on some marquis, all Twinkling Lights" --as Broadway Baby from FOLLIES says. There is something very exciting about seeing someone's name and lord knows your OWN name in real live light bulbs. It can be a breathtaking part of the theatrical experience. Yes....The Shubert Theater.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 5:59pm

The Winter Garden Marquee looks like what I imagined all Broadway marquees looked like when I was a kid.
Updated On: 4/15/05 at 05:59 PM

[Princeton78]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 6:01pm

London's Palace Theatre

Updated On: 4/15/05 at 06:01 PM

[magruder]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 6:06pm

If you are talking about the actual physical marquee, there is only one clear choice...

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 6:09pm

[Carl Magnum]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 6:14pm

uMMM Cats, where is that from. I thought Charity was at the Al?

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 6:19pm

That WIZ Marquee is from the one night only performance starring Shani Wallis as Dorothy.
Updated On: 4/15/05 at 06:19 PM

[Carl Magnum]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 6:25pm

oHHH, I hadn't heard about that. I thought it was a premature one for the revival that has dropped off the radar. The promo art looked similar.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 4/15/05 at 6:28pm

Oh Carl -- I'm just teasing you. Shani Wallis is seventy years old and white. Can you imagine?

Someone doctored that photo a while back when someone asked "What will replace SWEET CHARITY at the Hirschfeld" - this was after the closing notice was put up in Boston.