High Fidelity Playbill
High Fidelity Playbill
#1High Fidelity Playbill
Posted: 2/20/12 at 11:38am
I was browsing Playbill Vault and noticed that they have two different Playbill covers listed for High Fidelity. I'm a Playbill collector and I'm familiar with the first one, but the second one is new to me.
It says 'January 2007' in the description, yet the show closed on December 17, 2006... Has anyone ever come across an actual copy of that second Playbill?
Playbill Vault: High Fidelity
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#2High Fidelity Playbill
Posted: 2/20/12 at 12:04pm
Never seen that one before. I thought for sure this thread was going to be about the Playbill with the photo of Will Chase and Jenn Collella on the front, which was used out-of-town in Boston... but alas.
That mystery one looks rather cartoony.
#2High Fidelity Playbill
Posted: 2/20/12 at 5:28pm
Ah yes, I quite like that Playbill from the Boston run actually. Better design than this mysterious one, which indeed looks (too) cartoony. I guess a proof copy may have been printed, but then the show closed and the new design was no longer needed...
So who needs a Carrie or Moose Murders Playbill? High Fidelity has the rarest Playbill! 
#3High Fidelity Playbill
Posted: 2/20/12 at 5:36pmIt's odd that they would have switched from a black and white picture to a color picture if the show wasn't doing well.
#4High Fidelity Playbill
Posted: 2/20/12 at 10:58pmThe one on the left is in color. Note: the title is in yellow.
#5High Fidelity Playbill
Posted: 2/20/12 at 11:04pm
I have NEVER seen the one on the right! The one on the left is, to my knowledge, from the Broadway run. The Boston run (when I saw it) used a different black-and-white picture featuring Will Chase with Jenn Colella.
Shame about this show. Compared to sludgy rom-com movie adaptations like Rhe Wedding Singer and Legally Blonde, it really deserved to run. What a fun score!
#6High Fidelity Playbill
Posted: 2/20/12 at 11:09pmI worked for that show in a roundabout way and was there on the first preview, a couple times during the "run" and for the final performance and never saw that second one. Very odd.
#7High Fidelity Playbill
Posted: 2/20/12 at 11:22pmJordan; I saw the show in Boston and in New York and I also have no idea where the f%$%@ that second playbill is coming from.
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#8High Fidelity Playbill
Posted: 2/21/12 at 8:45pmNever saw the second one.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#9High Fidelity Playbill
Posted: 2/21/12 at 9:50pm
They were likely trying to save the show with new advertising artwork/ads, since that cover would have debuted the next month. Obviously, the show never made it that far to even see if it would have caught on. I think it's better than the first, that's for sure.
And to whoever said it would cost more: the first playbill is not actually black & white. It also has yellow. To print those in color costs almost as much as full color.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#10High Fidelity Playbill
Posted: 2/22/12 at 2:25pmWould it really cost them more since they already have to print the Playbill box in Yellow to do the Yellow on the title?
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#11High Fidelity Playbill
Posted: 2/22/12 at 2:51pmThanks so much for all the replies, everyone. I'm sure CapnHook is right about the origin of the mysterious Playbill. Too bad that the show closed so early, but I guess different artwork wouldn't have saved the show from closing. It's just interesting that Playbill decided to include it in their Playbill Vault.
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