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Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
#26re: Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
Posted: 8/22/09 at 6:23pm
I've got too many favorites to post here, but I really hate this new logo they keep trying to push for Phantom of the Opera.
Tonight belongs to... Mysterious masked floating Ken doll head!!
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#27re: Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
Posted: 8/22/09 at 6:33pmThe new Phantom logo looks like the cover of a crappy romance novel.
"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
#28re: Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
Posted: 8/22/09 at 6:36pm
Favorite:
"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#29re: Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
Posted: 8/22/09 at 6:45pm
Good...
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#30re: Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
Posted: 8/22/09 at 6:46pm
"The new Phantom logo looks like the cover of a crappy romance novel. "
Have you seen some of the Vegas promo art?
Would someone kindly remind me when THAT scene happened in the show? I seem to have forgotten.
Updated On: 8/23/09 at 06:46 PM
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#31re: Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
Posted: 8/22/09 at 6:47pm
Bad...
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#32re: Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
Posted: 8/22/09 at 6:49pmThat Piazza artwork is pretty, but it kind of looks like he's throwing the hat to her.
I know you.
I know you.
I know you.
AndAllThatJazz22
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
#33re: Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
Posted: 8/22/09 at 6:52pmThey look like they're in Mexico in that LITP poster.
"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
IfYouCan
Stand-by Joined: 7/1/09
#34re: Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
Posted: 8/22/09 at 6:57pm
I like the original Hair artwork.
I like the revival's, too, but the original fits with the show really well.
#35re: Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
Posted: 8/22/09 at 7:10pm
There is some really good work in those posters, thanks so much for reminding us of them!
Please keep in mind that the object of the artwork is to present the essence of the show or play, and not to present a picture of a cast member, a scene, or anything else that occurs on the stage.
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
#36re: Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
Posted: 8/22/09 at 7:55pm
I like this Light In The Piazza artwork better.
#37re: Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
Posted: 8/22/09 at 7:55pm
I like this Light In The Piazza artwork better.
#38re: Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:06am
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Updated On: 8/23/09 at 01:06 AM
#39re: Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:29amI have too many favorites, but my least favorite is definitely the new Phantom artwork. And I don't get the Vegas art either. How is the mask an "O"? If anything it's an "M" because of the way the bottom is shaped. I also hate that it's just "Phantom" now as that creates further confusion with the Maury Yeston version.
#40re: Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:32amALW trying to get rid of the competition, methinks.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#41re: Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:46am^ Lol, I doubt that Yeston's Phantom was ever ANY competition to Webber's , love.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#42re: Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:53am
BUT Yeston is going to make it big with the NINE movie, then a full-scale Broadway production of PHANTOM will be produced to upstage POTO..
Well, no, and I know he doesn't really have competition, but STILLLL..I was kidding, I think.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 8/23/09 at 01:53 AM
beewai
Chorus Member Joined: 7/30/09
#43re: Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
Posted: 8/23/09 at 1:57am
Grey Gardens had a wonderfully expressive marquee, but the subsequent "Scandal" Ad Campaign later in the run drove that show into the ground in my opinion.
Grey Gardens (the good)
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#45re: Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
Posted: 8/23/09 at 2:33amI actually like James McMullan's artwork for The Light in the Piazza better than "ballet Clara", but I tend to like all the work he does for the Lincoln Center shows. South Pacific, Carousel and Parade were all great.
#46re: Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
Posted: 8/23/09 at 2:42am
I really like the Legally Blonde artwork... It's super fun.
But really the first thing I thought of when I read the title of this thread was BOTH of The Light in the Piazza artworks. They're both pretty stunning.
However my favorite is Marie Christine...SO good.
"...and in a bed."
#47re: Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
Posted: 8/23/09 at 2:50am
How did I forget Urban Cowboy? Brilliant example of putting the show's best asset right on the poster.
heo1128
Broadway Star Joined: 7/9/08
#48re: Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
Posted: 8/23/09 at 3:14am
I can't believe no one's said the new HAIR artwork. I LOVE it.
Updated On: 8/23/09 at 03:14 AM
#49re: Favorite and Least Favorite Artwork
Posted: 8/23/09 at 3:28amI love the new Hair artwork as well. I wish they would have printed a poster with the blue background and the blue sun.
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