New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 9/3/12 at 6:06pm

I like this one as well as the other one that has been used. This is from the Boneau/Bryan-Brown official site.

Here is the other one if you have not seen it...

[ljay889]

Posted: 9/3/12 at 6:09pm

Standard Roundabout.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 9/3/12 at 6:26pm

I actually really like it.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 9/3/12 at 6:31pm

Encouragingly unembarrassing.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 9/3/12 at 8:03pm

I like it!

[Jonwo]

Posted: 9/3/12 at 8:16pm

I wonder if Roundabout will consider an extended run if Drood is a hit either staying at Studio 54 or transferring to the Stephen Sondheim,

[It's a fine life!]

Posted: 9/3/12 at 8:27pm

God I wish I could see this.

[Proper Villain]

Posted: 9/3/12 at 9:02pm

Love it!

[JakePinckes]

Posted: 9/3/12 at 9:07pm

Like this artwork soooo much better than that awful brown color in the original

[aasjb4ever]

Posted: 9/3/12 at 9:09pm

So much more fitting for the show, I hope Louizos’ set is similar to the design?

[showchoirguy]

Posted: 9/3/12 at 9:32pm

I cannot wait for this show.

[AJChavez]

Posted: 9/3/12 at 10:37pm

I really like it

[macnyc]

Posted: 9/3/12 at 10:41pm

I love the curtain! Are we sure this is the one they're going with?

[SondheimFan5]

Posted: 9/4/12 at 12:30am

This one has above-the-title credits listed, so I would imagine this is the one they are using. Is there a larger version of this out there? Looks great.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 9/4/12 at 12:37am

I hope Louizos’ set is similar to the design?

I hope so! On a side note, I am so sad that she took her website down

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 9/4/12 at 9:09am

Nice, evocative, retro, good use of color.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/4/12 at 9:21am

The new poster is better, but still a bit too slick for my taste. The original is grungy vintage simplicity, and looks more like a period piece ... or perhaps "barebones Baz Luhrmann" if there is such a thing.

At least the new one evokes a Music Hall entrainment, which tells you a little something about the show. I just wish it didn't have the plastic shininess. A bit too Disney for me.

[tazber]

Posted: 9/4/12 at 9:46am

I don't dislike, but I don't love it.

And that's weird because I can't figure out why. It looks good, the curtain conceit is perfect....there's nothing about it I don't like.

Maybe it's because I love the original artwork so much.

[D2]

Posted: 9/4/12 at 9:50am

Unless they're updating the show to take place in the 30s, it's the wrong period. The original production, as written, was set in the late 19th century and the first design captured that look. The new one, while attractive, is as Besty described "too slick" and just not in keeping with the show's setting.

Unless, as I mentioned, they're updating it.

[mikem]

Posted: 9/4/12 at 10:06am

I think the reflections of light in the new logo make it seem like the curtain is made of plastic, like a shower curtain, rather than made of fabric. The contrast is too much. As best12bars and D2 said, it doesn't evoke the period.

I also wish that they had kept the old typefaces and put them on the curtain.

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 3:36pm

Roundabout has updated the DROOD page of their site with a banner of the new artwork:



http://www.roundabouttheatre.org/Shows-Events/The-Mystery-of-Edwin-Drood.aspx

Updated On: 9/5/12 at 03:36 PM

[macnyc]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 4:27pm

I'm happy! Does anyone know if the period of the show is being updated, as a previous poster asked? The new artwork does seem to suggest a more recent decade than pre- 1900.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 4:30pm

^It looks a little 1920s doesn't it?

[tazber]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 4:31pm

I don't know, but I can't imagine why they would update it or change the period. The Music Hall era is what it is. I'm not sure how much updating could be done.

Btw, if this was a shower curtain I would totally buy it.

[Kad]

Posted: 9/5/12 at 4:39pm

It's really only the font choice for "Edwin Drood" that seems a bit anachronistic.