Is the Playbill logo always yellow?
Is the Playbill logo always yellow?
jessi
Swing Joined: 1/12/09
#1Is the Playbill logo always yellow?
Posted: 1/12/09 at 12:49pmI have a Playbill from 1986 where the logo is in blue. I thought it was always yellow - am I wrong?
#2re: Is the Playbill logo always yellow?
Posted: 1/12/09 at 12:55pm
It's always yellow.
It was green for WICKEDs fifth anniversary, however.
jessi
Swing Joined: 1/12/09
#2re: Is the Playbill logo always yellow?
Posted: 1/12/09 at 1:00pmwhat about the one I have where it's blue?
ThankstoPhantom
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
#3re: Is the Playbill logo always yellow?
Posted: 1/12/09 at 1:01pm"It is always yellow" is a different statement from "It wasn't always yellow." Playbill has gone through many different designs throughout its history.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
jessi
Swing Joined: 1/12/09
#5re: Is the Playbill logo always yellow?
Posted: 1/12/09 at 1:16pmIt's not a Showbill, it's definitely a Playbill - I have lots of them from the 80s and this is the only one I've ever seen that's blue. Do you know when they started using yellow exclusively?
#6re: Is the Playbill logo always yellow?
Posted: 1/12/09 at 3:45pm
The Playbill logo is traditionally yellow. What show was it in blue for?
Some time between 1973 & 1974 they switched to the current logo (yellow and block letters) from the groovy late-60's swoopy script (that took up a larger portion of the front cover)
jessi
Swing Joined: 1/12/09
#7re: Is the Playbill logo always yellow?
Posted: 1/12/09 at 4:42pmIt's the same lettering as now - it's for "Olympus On My Mind" in 1986.
sgv123
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/06
#8re: Is the Playbill logo always yellow?
Posted: 1/12/09 at 4:44pm
I am not sure why it is blue, but is this it?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Playbill-OLYMPUS-On-My-Mind_W0QQitemZ190224308622QQihZ009QQcategoryZ2365QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem?refid=store
jessi
Swing Joined: 1/12/09
#9re: Is the Playbill logo always yellow?
Posted: 1/12/09 at 5:12pmYes, that's it. Is that your ebay ad?
sgv123
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/06
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#11re: Is the Playbill logo always yellow?
Posted: 1/12/09 at 5:55pmWas it Off Broadway? I wonder if shows not on Broadway were a different color? Just an uneducated guess.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#13re: Is the Playbill logo always yellow?
Posted: 1/12/09 at 7:22pmFor a very brief time (I think it was in the 70's), PLAYBILL had a striped, circus-like logo. If I'm not mistaken, the magazine was a tad bit bigger during that period.
Videos