Lupone Gypsy Poster- Page 6

[RyToast1]

Posted: 1/8/08 at 1:50pm

This new production is a transfer of the City Center version, so I'm still so confused why they're using an image from Ravinia!

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/8/08 at 1:52pm

RyToast, me too! It's pissing me off. We all know Laurents. Wouldn't using an image from a production he had NOTHING to do with piss him off??

That's why I think this is only temporary.
Updated On: 1/8/08 at 01:52 PM

[B3TA07]

Posted: 1/8/08 at 1:57pm

I hope (and will be greatly amused to discover) this is a joke.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/8/08 at 1:58pm

I like it. I think it works.

[kyle.]

Posted: 1/8/08 at 1:58pm

If it turns out not to be only the temp. artwork we should find out what ad agency they are using and all write to them with our disgust.

I have seen posters for Gypsy done by COMMUNITY THEATRES that are better than this.

This even being temp. artwork is crazy to me...if I was directing or producing this show there is NO WAY I would have let the public see that.

How embarrassing.

[TsLondon08]

Posted: 1/8/08 at 2:46pm

Hello. Stupid English Person here, we don't have Amex presale periods over here. Do tickets go on sale to everyone else on the 26th Jan?

Broadway shows seem to start selling tickets a lot later than our westend. Our shows announce they are opening and let you buy tickets sometime up to a year ahead.

[RetroBoy]

Posted: 1/8/08 at 5:13pm

She does look like an over-aged Annie!!!! Hahahahahahaha!!!

[JulianHookbucks]

Posted: 1/8/08 at 9:56pm

"Dear Liam,
Why do you ask?
Love, Patti"


that's all she wrote, folks.

[MovieGuy1031]

Posted: 1/8/08 at 11:44pm

ANNNND I think that's the sign that it is indeed the final poster.

OR that Patti's in on the joke...

[Londonskyguy]

Posted: 1/8/08 at 11:44pm

I do not understand in the least bit why so many people are upset with this poster,, I find it bold, eye catching, and above all it has guts. Ms. LuPone deserves to finally have such a bold billing above the title,, and this pretty much says it all!!!!!

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/9/08 at 12:30am

OH PATTTTTIIIIIII. Please just tell us if it's not official. Are you going to reply to her, Liam?

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 1/9/08 at 12:34am

I know recently August: Osage County, Jersey Boys, The Ritz, The Little Dog Laughed, and Grey Gardens are examples of shows that released fairly generic posters for publicity that weren't much more than the titles of the shows.

Was the Jersey Boys one the white background with Jersey Boys in red?

[RetroBoy]

Posted: 1/9/08 at 12:42am

"do not understand in the least bit why so many people are upset with this poster,, I find it bold, eye catching, and above all it has guts. Ms. LuPone deserves to finally have such a bold billing above the title,, and this pretty much says it all!!!!!

But, you see, no one here has a problem with Ms.LuPone's billing. No one here has stated she doesn't deserve it. She does deserve that billing. She's earned it. She also deserves a BETTER POSTER! If you find it bold, eye catching and um..."full of guts" (whatever the hell that's supposed to mean) that's fine, you're entitled. Just as we are all entitled to the opinion that a better job could have been done.




Updated On: 1/9/08 at 12:42 AM

[bjh2114]

Posted: 1/9/08 at 12:45am

Was the Jersey Boys one the white background with Jersey Boys in red?

Yah, just white background with the title in big red capital letters.

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/9/08 at 3:08am

A picture like this would have been a lot more appropriate for the artwork. Considering it's actually from Laurent's production!

[DaneSaw]

Posted: 1/9/08 at 3:11am

Londonskyguy, it's just a shoddy attempt at artwork that could have been 20 times more effective and creative had some thought and work been put into it. You can't tell me that some graphic designer slaved for hours and hours trying to come up with an idea for the poster and THAT was their best idea?

If they were going for the "recycling photographs and elements/ideas from every other poster that's ever been done" idea, they've done great.

[Brick]

Posted: 1/9/08 at 12:13pm

Actually lJay889, I like really like that pic! I think that would have made a better inspiration/foundation for the poster - even the Rose in lights in the background could say GYPSY.

The poster has grown on me. But it still looks very, very cheap.

[JulianHookbucks]

Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:34pm

I was going to reply with this...

that all of us love the billing she recieved, and that we're all so excited for the production, but we feel it odd that they recycled the Ravinia poster since it's from a totally different production with a completely different look than she has in this production and that we wished that it was a more lavish and creatively concieved official advertisment for the show that she's been waiting her whole life to finally get to headline. We believe she deserves only the best.

Think she could take that the wrong way? A little pander-y... but it's Patti... The only thing is I'm afraid that she loves it, and that she would spew hatred like napalm all the way from Connecticut.

[DMsquared2]

Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:43pm

This might have been mentioned already--I haven't read the entire thread--but what bothers me the most is how out of focus the text is.

Posted: 1/9/08 at 1:46pm

i dont get where the BLUE ON BLUE colorscheme comes from.

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/9/08 at 2:15pm

Julian, I think you should just say something like. "People are just confused why they are using a picture from the Ravinia production. Will your Rose being going back to that look?"

Something like that. So it's not too strong.

[JulianHookbucks]

Posted: 1/9/08 at 3:20pm

sent.

predicted message?

Dear Liam,
No. Rose will look the same as she did this summer.
Love, Patti.

[ljay889]

Posted: 1/9/08 at 3:24pm

Well that would be better than...

Dear Liam,
Wait and see.
Love, Patti.

[JulianHookbucks]

Posted: 1/9/08 at 4:23pm

actually... that'll probably be it...

[Smaxie]

Posted: 1/9/08 at 4:45pm

Complain all you want, but that's the art. It's in the NY Times this Sunday. So live with it.