New Next To Normal Artwork?

[brandonm2]

Posted: 3/1/09 at 4:16pm

I was on telecharge searching for info about Next To Normal and saw this new picture as the artwork. Does anyone know if this is definitely the Artwork they're using for the Broadway Production?

http://www.telecharge.com/BehindTheCurtain.aspx?prodid=7295

[legally_popular]

Posted: 3/1/09 at 4:20pm

Wow, I hope they use that artwork. It's definitely better than the previous ones they've used.

[being.jeremiah]

Posted: 3/1/09 at 4:22pm

Here's the (rather) new Broadway website:
http://www.nexttonormal.com/

[Sondheim_Geek]

Posted: 3/1/09 at 6:32pm

I like the new artwork. I can picture on the marquee better than the 2nd Stage 'dangling feet' and the Arena 'face explosion'.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 3/1/09 at 6:34pm

The 2nd Stage artwork always puzzled me. This is a definite improvement.

Any word of a discount code yet?

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 3/1/09 at 6:35pm

Oh, wow, I love it!

I missed seeing "Next To Normal" at Arena Stage because I didn't know what it was about until my friend raved over it, and the logo really turned me off. I didn't think I'd like the show just based on the scary logo.

[KingKong]

Posted: 3/1/09 at 6:41pm

Any word of a discount code yet?

Tickets don't go onsale til tomorrow, and the back row of the mezz is 36 bucks. Its a small theatre a 3 tier set, there won't be bad seats, just save your money and grab a seat in row h.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 3/1/09 at 6:51pm

Thanks, but I know this show will inevitably have a discount code. I'd rather not sit in the last row, even if it's a small theater.

[Magica]

Posted: 3/1/09 at 7:15pm

Schmerg, I also HATE the artist that does the Arena Stage programs.

[broadwayman17]

Posted: 3/10/09 at 7:57pm

Second Stage Artwork
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hi4TbVj_QiY/SZs2shhI7MI/AAAAAAAAD0E/HsCKedl8m7g/s320/Next+To+Normal.bmp

Arena Artwork


Broadway Artwork

[heo1128]

Posted: 3/10/09 at 8:00pm

I love the 2nd Stage artwork...however it reminds me of fishing, for some reason haha.

[withoutlovewithoutU]

Posted: 3/10/09 at 8:42pm

Ooo I love the new artwork!

[Kad]

Posted: 3/10/09 at 9:39pm

I think it looks like a poster for a horror movie about a vengeful piano teacher.

[KingKong]

Posted: 3/10/09 at 9:48pm

And yet its still more relevant to the story than that dreadful Second Stage art with the family (with two young children) hanging their feet of the end of a dock.

[legally_popular]

Posted: 3/10/09 at 10:20pm

I love the eyes, coloring and the house. Not so much the notes and the tagline. But it's definitely better than the previous ones.

[Elke]

Posted: 3/11/09 at 3:21am

I do like the new artwork and think the new tagline is original.

But, brandonm2, where can we see a bigger version of your avatar? That looks like a great promo shot!

[jordangirl]

Posted: 3/11/09 at 7:21am

I first saw it on the Arena Stage blog.

[Elke]

Posted: 3/11/09 at 7:22am

Thanks, jordangirl. That's a nice picture

[PiraguaGuy2]

Posted: 3/11/09 at 7:29am

Am I the only one who likes the Arena Stage artwork?

[KingKong]

Posted: 3/11/09 at 7:43am

I didn't hate it, but it did kind of have a nightmare inducing quality.

[Craww]

Posted: 3/11/09 at 10:58am

I think they have a really poor idea of how to market this show visually.

The newest artwork might be my least favorite. They actually finally land on the right concept, kind of, and blow it with flat/boring/amateur execution. Especially the cheap-Photoshop-brush effect of the music bar.

[DMsquared2]

Posted: 3/11/09 at 11:07am

It makes me think of Rosemary's Baby for some reason.

[HaveToFinishTheHat]

Posted: 3/11/09 at 11:15am

I really like the new artwork! Actually I liked the arena artwork as well - though it always made me think "dark comedy" for some reason. The new art is very Hitchcockian which I think fits oddly enough...

[Kad]

Posted: 3/11/09 at 11:57am

"Am I the only one who likes the Arena Stage artwork?"

No, I like it, too. I think it's probably the strongest of three designs.


I really don't like the Broadway artwork. I think it looks a little amateurish and is incredibly vague. For a show that will almost certainly be fighting an uphill battle for financial success, I would think they would be able to find a better way to draw people in.

Face it- if you had no idea what Next to Normal was, would that poster draw you in? Or would you get distracted by a shinier poster?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/11/09 at 12:05pm

I prefer the Broadway artwork I guess, though it's pretty obvious whoever designed it doesn't know a thing about music. It's a rather lazy attempt. I just hope they have a new set design. It's the one thing I truly detested about the show.