PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season- Page 6
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#125
Posted: 4/4/18 at 5:36pm
According to Instagram, yes it did. Hmm.
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#126
Posted: 4/4/18 at 5:39pm^ Absolutely dreadful. Just like the production itself.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#127
Posted: 4/4/18 at 5:40pm
bwayphreak234 said: "^ Absolutely dreadful. Just like the production itself."
I just don't know why they wouldn't use their beautiful key art that's on the marquee and every other promotional material across the city. Seems like a no-brainer to me.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/17
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#128
Posted: 4/4/18 at 5:41pmYikes. Shoulda just stuck with the rehersal shot.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/06
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#129
Posted: 4/4/18 at 6:10pm
This is not that bad. It's stark and dramatic. I like it. Is it the best? No. But I think it's very sleek.
Broadway Star Joined: 7/28/13
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#130
Posted: 4/4/18 at 6:17pmI really like it...heh. I do wish Jessie was included, but it’s very dramatic and places the focus on Billy.
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/12
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#131
Posted: 4/4/18 at 6:26pmIt kind of looks like a shot from the revival of Pippin
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#132
Posted: 4/4/18 at 7:32pm
Ugh, Carousel.
I didn’t think was was possible to create a second cover that was worse than the first.
Congratulations guys, you found a way.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/16
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#133
Posted: 4/4/18 at 7:55pmI actually like the playbill. Mainly because Joshua Henry is such a hunk.
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#134
Posted: 4/4/18 at 8:58pm
BroadwayConcierge said: "bwayphreak234 said: "^ Absolutely dreadful. Just like the production itself."
I just don't know why they wouldn't use their beautiful key art that's on the marquee and every other promotional material across the city. Seems like a no-brainer to me."
This is my question. It's some of the nicest key-art of any show currently running on Broadway, and yet they have gone out of their way to not use it on the Playbill. Very strange decision.
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#135
Posted: 4/4/18 at 9:03pm
It might be Scott Rudin's hang-up about releasing production shots. I remember how Hello Dolly! they released like a total of 3 or 4 production photos.
As for the playbill I like it. Joshua Henry is really amazing as Billy and that picture captures some of his intensity.
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#136
Posted: 4/4/18 at 10:11pmGeorgeandDot said: "I actually like the playbill. Mainly because Joshua Henry is such a hunk."
I feel like the new cover emphasizes his skin color (because of the lighting plus the B&W) and his physical build (because of the costume and angle of the photo) which seems to imply that the show is delving into the significance of casting a black man as Billy... which by all accounts, it does not.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/15/14
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#137
Posted: 4/4/18 at 10:14pm
poisonivy2 said: "It mightbe Scott Rudin's hang-up about releasing production shots. I remember how Hello Dolly! they released like a total of 3 or 4 production photos."
It's definitely a Scott Rudin "thing", but it doesn't seem like there's any rhyme or reason for the productions that have this photo cover + non-logo font. Skylight, View from the Bridge, Humans, Blackbird, Crucible, Front Page, and Glass Menagerie had covers like this. But then Dolly, Doll's House, 1984, and Shuffle Along used their regular color logos.
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#138
Posted: 4/4/18 at 10:18pm
If the title of the show was taken off the cover, no one would have any idea which show it was.
I simply think it’s too abstract.
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#139
Posted: 4/4/18 at 11:02pm
SomethingPeculiar said: "poisonivy2 said: "It mightbe Scott Rudin's hang-up about releasing production shots. I remember how Hello Dolly! they released like a total of 3 or 4 production photos."
It's definitely a Scott Rudin "thing", but itdoesn't seem like there's any rhyme or reason for the productions that have this photo cover +non-logo font. Skylight, View from the Bridge, Humans, Blackbird, Crucible, Front Page, and Glass Menagerie had covers like this. But then Dolly, Doll's House, 1984, and Shuffle Along used their regular colorlogos."
Book of Mormon also used their regular logo font for the playbill.
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#140
Posted: 4/4/18 at 11:24pm
Once On This Island has updated their Playbill to feature the art with Hailey Kilgore:
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#141
Posted: 4/5/18 at 5:18pm
msmp said: "BroadwayConcierge said: "bwayphreak234 said: "^ Absolutely dreadful. Just like the production itself."
I just don't know why they wouldn't use their beautiful key art that's on the marquee and every other promotional material across the city. Seems like a no-brainer to me."
This is my question. It's some of the nicest key-art of any show currently running on Broadway, and yet they have gone out of their way to not use it on the Playbill. Very strange decision."
One of the reasons I like the Playbill covers of the and 60's and 70's is because their emphasis was always on the actors and their acting. I love Rudin's retro Playbills because I think it's his attempt at returning us to a time when acting was the priority over marketing. It's a small gesture (as I'm sure most people don't care what Playbills looks like), but I see it as an important one in terms of how theater is viewed.
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#142
Posted: 4/5/18 at 10:27pmOoh, I want one of those new Once on This Island Playbills.
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#143
Posted: 4/5/18 at 11:12pm
Once on this Island has been that cover for like the past 3 months
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#144
Posted: 4/6/18 at 3:15pmI want the new Carousel playbill...anybody have a spare?
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#145
Posted: 4/6/18 at 4:08pm
@z5 said: "Once on this Island has been that cover for like the past 3 months"
I know, but no one had shared it here and wanted to make sure that the Playbill fans got to see it.
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#146
Posted: 4/13/18 at 10:32am
It looks like Kinky Boots is using a 5th Anniversary Playbill for the entire month of April. I am amazed no one has posted this already.
What was the last production to mark an anniversary or closing with a unique Playbill cover?
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Not to answer my own question but It looks like its the Phantom 30th this past January which I actually like the cover because its really unique.
and before that it was the Lion King's 20th in November, which simply changed the color of the Playbill logo to from Playbill Yellow to Lion King Yellow, and added a "Celebrating 20 years" tag line.
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#147
Posted: 4/13/18 at 6:35pmAnybody have the Head Over Hills Playbill images yet?
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#148
Posted: 4/14/18 at 8:44pm
BroadwayConcierge said: "bwayphreak234 said: "^ Absolutely dreadful. Just like the production itself."
I just don't know why they wouldn't use their beautiful key art that's on the marquee and every other promotional material across the city. Seems like a no-brainer to me."
I whole-heartedly agree with this. It's better than the rehearsal photo, but I think their WONDERFUL marquee art would look great on a playbill.
PLAYBILL Covers of the 2017-2018 Season#149
Posted: 4/15/18 at 2:23am
Frenchbacon said: "BroadwayConcierge said: "bwayphreak234 said: "^ Absolutely dreadful. Just like the production itself."
I just don't know why they wouldn't use their beautiful key art that's on the marquee and every other promotional material across the city. Seems like a no-brainer to me."
I whole-heartedly agree with this. It's better than the rehearsal photo, but I think their WONDERFUL marquee art would look great on a playbill."
EXACTLY!!! I love the marquee art more than the current Playbill design and I can't see why they are deciding not to put the marquee art on the Playbill.
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