#1
Posted: 11/18/08 at 2:13pm
Tix now available at Telecharge...via AMEX gold card promotion..General public sale starts Dec 6
#2
Posted: 11/18/08 at 2:40pm
$37 for the last two rows. That's pretty excellent in this day and age.
#3
Somebody please please please please please please please tell me this graphic is just a temporary placeholder.
Because...oh my God.
Posted: 11/18/08 at 4:54pm
Somebody please please please please please please please tell me this graphic is just a temporary placeholder.
Because...oh my God.
"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit."
(Emanuel Azenberg)
#5
Posted: 11/18/08 at 5:01pm
Ya know, I'm not sure it is. While I would be terribly bored if they kept the summer 2008 design, I at least appreciated that it had a little imagination. And that it used a typeface that looked a little like the old Helvetica, if they were to resurrect the whole big-stark-all-caps-title look of the 1968 poster. What is this orange, digital age mess?? (Yes, the "I" and "R" are very modern and they bother me...I'm picky.)
This new thing is eye-catching but devoid of any creative thought. What a missed opportunity if the real thing ends up looking like that. (Somehow I believe it won't.)
This new thing is eye-catching but devoid of any creative thought. What a missed opportunity if the real thing ends up looking like that. (Somehow I believe it won't.)
"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit."
(Emanuel Azenberg)
Updated On: 11/18/08 at 05:01 PM
#6
Posted: 11/18/08 at 7:23pm
Ewww. I know I complained about the mohawk logo, but I'd rather that than the orange techno mess. Did they actually pay someone to come up with that??? Sadness.
#7
Posted: 11/18/08 at 7:36pm
That's a mowhawk? All this time I thought it was some odd, conceptual sporozoa.
#8
Posted: 11/18/08 at 7:41pm
ChecksintheMayo--that is an excellent icon.
"Salutha: you've kept it tight. Heidi: we no longer want to hit that. Get off MILF Island."
"Salutha: you've kept it tight. Heidi: we no longer want to hit that. Get off MILF Island."
"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit."
(Emanuel Azenberg)
#9
Posted: 11/18/08 at 7:53pm
Nothing says Hair quite like "American Express Gold Card." It really sums up the baby boomer experience in a nutshell.
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#10
Posted: 11/18/08 at 8:36pm
Um...LOVING the Milf Island avatar and (slightly more because it made me remember the actual moment) the quote from SDav 10495. I love me some 30 Rock.
#11
Posted: 11/18/08 at 9:09pm
the orange logo kinda looks like the beginning of the Hairspray movie logo...
#12
Posted: 11/19/08 at 9:19pm
<< $37 for the last two rows. That's pretty excellent in this day and age.
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Was just going to post the same.... AND... tix available to the public for opening night. Nice !
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Was just going to post the same.... AND... tix available to the public for opening night. Nice !
#13
Posted: 11/20/08 at 8:09am
I agree, that is a great price!
"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."
#14
Posted: 11/20/08 at 8:27am
I guess people don't understand that the summer mohawk logo for Hair went together as a tandem image with the skull for Hamlet. The mohawk squiggle made less sense by itself, but this is what it looked like as designed to advertise the two productions. I thought it was a rather whimsical campaign, to be honest.
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#15
Posted: 11/20/08 at 1:18pm
It was very clever and very clean, yes...made me chuckle when I first saw it.
"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit."
(Emanuel Azenberg)
#16
Posted: 11/20/08 at 1:36pm
Incidentally, the logo that was posted earlier in this thread (and which now seems to be gone) is indeed the title treatment for the Broadway version of Hair. But it's not the complete logo. The ad that runs this Sunday in the NY Times has a female cast member, looking up with a grin, surrounded by upraised hands, and there is a sort of woven orange sunburst in back of her, and copy that says "Let the Sunshine In." It's attributed to Amy Guip, the art designer who did those treated photos for the initial Broadway Rent campaign.
Or see it here...
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Updated On: 11/20/08 at 01:36 PM
#17
Posted: 11/20/08 at 2:04pm
Hmm...well I will say I think Amy Guip's style is appropriate for this production. I would have liked a "darker" angle, but the bright colors are rather attractive in hard times. (I hate how people analyze everything through the lens of the economic crisis these days, but that was the first thought that struck me.)
Still though, that typeface...having studied a lot of typefaces as kind of a nerdy pastime, it bothers me that this one doesn't look like anything from 1968. Too angular, as I said before. The concept is appropriate--big bold capital letters aligned in blocks--but the typeface itself looks all wrong. Like if they had to advertise using only that title, which they will have to on some materials, it would give you the wrong idea about the show.
But I'm glad they have a design, and I can't wait to see the show. (Cast member is the awesome Allison Case, by the way.)
Still though, that typeface...having studied a lot of typefaces as kind of a nerdy pastime, it bothers me that this one doesn't look like anything from 1968. Too angular, as I said before. The concept is appropriate--big bold capital letters aligned in blocks--but the typeface itself looks all wrong. Like if they had to advertise using only that title, which they will have to on some materials, it would give you the wrong idea about the show.
But I'm glad they have a design, and I can't wait to see the show. (Cast member is the awesome Allison Case, by the way.)
"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit."
(Emanuel Azenberg)
Updated On: 11/20/08 at 02:04 PM
#18
Posted: 11/20/08 at 2:10pm
Also, I thought this excerpt from the "About the Show" section on the website was interesting:
"Overflowing with the spirit of progress and hope for a better world, "HAIR seems MORE DARING THAN EVER" (Time). Ben Brantley of The New York Times calls this interpretation "A SERIOUS CONTACT HIGH. Revelatory and exuberant!"
Embrace CHANGE... spread LOVE… and come experience the resonant magic of HAIR from its mystical opening to its triumphant finale, when the cast invites the audience to literally join in the celebration and "LET THE SUN SHINE IN!" It’s about time."
One of the things I wondered after seeing the summer production was--what happens if the show transfers to Broadway and Obama has been elected? It seemed so much more dark and urgent with Bush in the White House and the election still uncertain. Clearly the creative team has had the same thought and is trying to recast the show as a celebration of this new era of "change". Interesting.
"Overflowing with the spirit of progress and hope for a better world, "HAIR seems MORE DARING THAN EVER" (Time). Ben Brantley of The New York Times calls this interpretation "A SERIOUS CONTACT HIGH. Revelatory and exuberant!"
Embrace CHANGE... spread LOVE… and come experience the resonant magic of HAIR from its mystical opening to its triumphant finale, when the cast invites the audience to literally join in the celebration and "LET THE SUN SHINE IN!" It’s about time."
One of the things I wondered after seeing the summer production was--what happens if the show transfers to Broadway and Obama has been elected? It seemed so much more dark and urgent with Bush in the White House and the election still uncertain. Clearly the creative team has had the same thought and is trying to recast the show as a celebration of this new era of "change". Interesting.
"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit."
(Emanuel Azenberg)
#19
Posted: 11/20/08 at 2:13pm
>Still though, that typeface...having studied a lot of typefaces as kind of a nerdy pastime, it bothers me that this one doesn't look like anything from 1968. Too angular, as I said before. The concept is appropriate--big bold capital letters aligned in blocks--but the typeface itself looks all wrong.<
You think the typeface is that different from this one? They look so similar to me - just with the letters in the new one overlapping a bit more.
You think the typeface is that different from this one? They look so similar to me - just with the letters in the new one overlapping a bit more.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
Updated On: 11/20/08 at 02:13 PM
#20
Posted: 11/20/08 at 2:29pm
Yeah, the original Broadway poster used Helvetica--a classic, and very 60s. The new typeface, as I said, is more pointy and angular (the "H" and "A" are pretty much the same, of course, but the "I" and "R" are very different). It's similar enough that the designers' hearts were in the right place--you can tell they were trying to emulate the old title in some way, while keeping it fresh. But something about that font still rings untrue to me. Ah well. This is all unbelievably trivial, in the end. 
"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit."
(Emanuel Azenberg)
#21
Posted: 11/20/08 at 4:57pm
I like this better than the original image Telecharge had up. At least this appears to have been an honest effort.
#22
Posted: 11/21/08 at 5:15am
It just makes me sad that the infinity sign over the I is not being used. I know that only the Michael Butler produced productions used that, but I find it so iconically Hair.
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