Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about Wicked. It's not a favorite show of mine, but I've always really liked the poster design--it was so iconic from the start, they practically own that shade of green now. I hate what they've done to it for the West End.
The original Sweeney logo was great--there's something really tounge-in-cheek yet really unsettling about those figures--but I really don't like the new graphic design. Sure, you're walking down the street and you glance at that color blue and you know it's a Sweeney poster, so I suppose it's successful in that sense. But there's something about that color and the mettalic letters and the eyes in the razor that seems too overdone for such a minimalist production. They should have gone with something darker and more to-the-point in keeping with the new staging. (Plus, the font they use for the reviewers' quotes on their posters is really, really ugly and doesn't fit at all...a classic show like Sweeney deserves something less generic.)
"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: 7/23/06 at 06:23 PM