New NIGHT MUSIC artwork- Page 2

[adamgreer]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 12:57am

I'm infinitely amused by the fact that Alexander Hanson's name is above the title, as if anyone in America knows who he is.

[Kad]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 1:07am

Well, he IS the main character. Perhaps it was a stipulation in bringing him over? I don't mind that. It's nice to see a name over a marquee that wasn't put there to reel in the bucks.

As for it, I think it's so bland. I also thought the same for the London artwork. I think both lack the sensuality inherit in the piece... though this more than the London version.

The colors ARE nice. It's too bad Rock of Ages got to use them first.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 1:08am

To me, it just looks like the cover of a trashy airplane novel. I don't know...

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 1:13am

^Agreed.

Where is it written that Broadway artwork has to suck now? Every import gets a much lamer logo. Check out the La Cage website...it's even worse.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 2:03am

Now that is truly hideous. A nightgown hanging on the moon? Trash!

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 5:29am

It's already growing on me. I really like the two fonts that they chose. They compliment each other very nicely.

[mrkringas]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 7:11am

Could we cease the endless bashing of Alexander Hanson?

He may not be a name but he is a fine performer and I'm quite glad he is getting a chance to take his Frederick to Broadway. Fine actor and has a fine voice too (although he won't be showing up his high rock belt in this show!)

[Smaxie]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 7:25am

The billing for Alexander Hanson - in a smaller font than Catherine Zeta Jones or Angela Lansbury - is based on the role, not on name value. It's the same three roles billed together in the original Broadway advertising.

As for the artwork on the La Cage site - that production is more than six months away and the site being used is a placeholder for the eventual Broadway artwork and website. So, no need to beat it up just yet.

Updated On: 10/1/09 at 07:25 AM

[Marquise]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 7:49am

The nightgown hanging off the moon is laughable. What a joke!

[Jenna Maroney]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 8:27am

Pretty but dull, though I like the rope-like font. I prefer the poster with the nightgown, but I don't like things hanging off crescent moons. I think having the dress hanging off a tree, as a nod to the original production art, would have been better.

Kad, I'm looking at the show's Facebook page, and there happens to be an ad for ROA. Snerk.

I'd love it if there were an NYT feature on the rejected artwork like there was for Ragtime.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 9:12am

Honestly, I like it. I thought the London artwork looked very Disney...more so than this.

And, I didn't see anyone bashing Hanson...but I only skimmed. I think the comment was more a "He's not really a name, why above the title?"

[Chrysanthemum62001]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 11:08am

So dissapointed.

I am still in awe with the original artwork with the bodies barely visible in the tree. I wish they would have come up with something as creative as that. Though at the same time, it's not very surprising. I still think this is some very un-creative casting.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 11:49am

I would have loved something with a more impressionist feel, sort of in the style of Monet or Renoir. Or this may be really out there, but Anders Zorn would have been the perfect inspiration. Swedish painter who celebrated sensuality (tons of female nudes). He traveled extensively in the US just before the turn of the century, which to me, perfectly ties together the elements of this musical. I mean, just LOOK at that!

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 11:56am

"Could we cease the endless bashing of Alexander Hanson?

He may not be a name but he is a fine performer and I'm quite glad he is getting a chance to take his Frederick to Broadway. Fine actor and has a fine voice too (although he won't be showing up his high rock belt in this show!)"

Endless bashing? No one is bashing him and he is barely mentioned here. People were merely questioning the billing of his name above the title since many people here haven't heard of him before. I understand the reasoning behind it, but just saying...

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 12:44pm

You were expecting elegance and class from the folks who market Broadway these days?

[alightinthedark23]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 12:56pm

It has like such a 1970s feel to me. I don't know why. It's interesting.

[beewai]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 1:15pm

Anyone else think that the font used for the cast billing is eerily similar to that from Murder, She Wrote? Maybe that's the 70's feeling you're getting ?

[maybethistime]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 1:28pm

I like the one without the nightgown in a very old-school, understated, Trevor-Nunn-could-do-it-again sort-of-way...

[tazber]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 1:39pm

I like it.

The nightgown version is hilarious. I hope they use it just for camp value.

Updated On: 10/1/09 at 01:39 PM

[Princeton2]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 2:45pm

http://nightmusiconbroadway.com/

Looks better on the site, and now dress (thank god!)

BUT I still think the London logo was better, which begs the question, is this not going to be a straight transfer of the London show?!

[ljay889]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 3:04pm

It's absolutely a straight transfer of the London production. It has the exact same design/creative team.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 5:11pm

It's just so friggin' cutesy. Is the merchandising going to be all lockets and charm bracelets? The website looks more appropriate for The Fantasticks.

[Scripps2]

Posted: 10/2/09 at 3:42pm

That poster with the nightgown (except that it doesn't look remotely like a nightgown from the period) is terrible and so not what this production is about.

For all those who are going to be disappointed that this isn't a traditional Broadway staging of ALNM, one thing that it does add is a refreshingly Scandinavian attitude towards sex.

Mister Matt understands the type of poster art this production needs.

[EganFan2]

Posted: 10/3/09 at 12:40am

Ot: Was this the production that may have starred Natasha Richardson and Vanessa Redgrave?

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 10/3/09 at 12:42am

No, the Roundabout was interested in doing an unrelated production with them this season. Obviously, that did not happen, so we are getting this instead.