Looking for first Shuffle Along playbill

Hello,

I am looking for the first Shuffle Along playbill to add to my collection. I will be seeing the show this Friday, but want a playbill with the original artwork. Does anyone have one they are willing to sell to me? PM for details and to discuss. I appreciate the help.

-Eddie

Did they have Playbills in 1921?

"I totally understand this, because the original artwork is beautiful. I cringed when I was told that hundreds of the original Playbills were tossed in the mail when the new ones were delivered to the theater, thinking about the change in the artwork!"



Do you mean they were tossed in the trash? Who were they mailing them to?

neonlightsxo-- yes, I meant in the trash. Oops! Will correct my post :)

The artwork that's on the front of house is the first playbill. The current playbill is pink feet.

I have the one with the theatre artwork (with the dancing girl).

Thanks loliveve, you've saved me the trouble.



I have the original cover.



I am guessing that the reason behind the change is that Playbills in the past rarely used the show logo, just a still from the show and the show's title written in white lettering over the still.



If that's what the producers were going for, then they could have taken it one step further and used a black and white photo of the dancing feet. Playbills did not use color photos in the past.

Updated On: 3/29/16 at 03:40 PM

bjh2114 said: "Why did they change it? The original is so much better.



I am guessing that the reason behind the change is that Playbills in the past rarely used the show logo, just a still from the show and the show's title written in white lettering over the still.



If that's what the producers were going for, then they could have taken it one step further and used a black and white photo of the dancing feet. Playbills did not use color photos in the past.

It was very rare for a show to have a color Playbill cover with the show's logo on it, but that doesn't mean it wasn't done. Here is one for the 1970 Broadway production of "Jesus Christ Superstar" which is in full color and used the show's logo.

I hope it's just a Playbill "thing" and that they stick with the original design on their website, marquee and marketing/promotional materials, which are a perfect fit for this production.



Who knows what they have (had) in mind when they decided to change the Playbill cover, maybe the model used in their ads only signed a waiver for her photo to be used in advertising that did not include a Playbill cover and to avoid paying her anymore money they abruptly changed it?

Wow. That's insane!

Happy to hear the originals are coming back!

I feel like the original ones were only popular because they got rid of them. No one is going to be desperately searching for one now if they bring it back.