New playbill design? — Page 2

The size is still the same.

Here's the new design for CHICAGO, possibly my favorite.



https://www.instagram.com/p/BHTfkCYBl7i/?tagged=broadway



Maybe we will see more beginning tomorrow? Do PThespian and any other members here who work FOH have any info on this seemingly sudden change?

Wow and Waitress has gone black and white...doesnt look good.

I really like the On Your Feet and Matilda ones.

http://www.playbill.com/article/check-out-playbills-new-cover-design

Something Rotten also doesn't seem to have a new one.

Also I know the Phantom cover is still the same, but it looks SO good with this format.

I'm all for the new Beautiful playbill! No pun intended.

I really like the new design! Perhaps because we've gotten used to seeing it with Rudin's revivals, but I find it looks best with the black and white covers. That being said, I hate most of the black and white covers when they are just the color design gone grayscale. They look great when they have people in them - Beautiful and Chicago are both stunning! Waitress, however, looks really horrible. I can't believe they have switched out to B&W so soon.

I do think the lack of space between the yellow banner and a color show design sometimes makes it clash a little, depending on the colors used. It doesn't look great for Hamilton.

I love the new Matilda design

Weird question, but I wonder if expanding the color will increase the amount Playbill charges to account for extra ink. I guess I wouldn't mind if that meant more shows going to black and white, as we've seen there's some smart usage of black and white on the new covers (new images, logos, etc.).

RE: Something Rotten and Book of Mormon - maybe it has something to do with the fact that both of them have white designs anyway, so changing it wouldn't make much of a difference - just a thought.



Back when we were talking about Rudin's use of these designs, someone mentioned that it must be much more expensive to print these ones than the usual ones. I wonder what kind of options they are giving to Off-Broadway theatre companies that use the Playbill brand. It occurs to me that many prominent theatre companies already choose to use their own programs (or another brand), presumably for financial reasons. If these Playbills are significantly more expensive, and if they didn't have the choice to continue using the previous Playbills, I wonder if more Off-Broadway companies will start defecting from using Playbill

re: bleed printing - are any ads inside printed to the edge of the paper? (I've never had an actual Playbill to clarify)

As much as I love the SHE LOVES ME one I daresay it would've looked better with black lettering on white:



I wonder if the new banner will prompt some shows to make their playbills designs a little different, rather than just putting the show logo on. When the actual old banner was the norm most playbills used either the title treatment on white (as above) or a production photo. As many have said and I agree, the black and white designs look a little better especially those using production photos.