PLAYBILL changing its banner to rainbow for the month of June

[loliveve]

Posted: 4/17/14 at 9:05pm

I'm really not sure what I think about this....



Though it will definitely add a bit of color to those black and white playbills out there right now
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[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 4/17/14 at 9:11pm

Paying extra for more colors are we, Playbill? Kudos.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/17/14 at 9:16pm

Years ago they had sort of a rainbow colored one.

It will look a bit off kilter unless the rest of it is in color as well.

[veronicamae]

Posted: 4/17/14 at 10:06pm

Can't wait to get one!

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 4/17/14 at 10:19pm

Reminds me of this.

Updated On: 4/17/14 at 10:19 PM

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 4/17/14 at 10:27pm

It would be nice if they were also doing it for national tours. I'll be seeing Joseph in June and the rainbow colors would certainly look great on that cover, but it's cool that New York audiences at least will get them.

[AntV]

Posted: 4/17/14 at 10:33pm

So for whatever I see in June I'll have to somehow obtain the regular versions of those playbills for my collection? Ugh.

[Broadway Bob*]

Posted: 4/17/14 at 10:49pm

Why would you need to? What's wrong with having the rainbow versions since those will be more special and specific to the time you are seeing those shows?!?

[haterobics]

Posted: 4/17/14 at 11:36pm

It would make sense that, as a collector, you would want the more common version than the rarer, more limited version, I guess.

[Kad]

Posted: 4/17/14 at 11:40pm

Somehow obtain them? Have the multitudes of regular Playbills on eBay suddenly vanished?

Updated On: 4/17/14 at 11:40 PM

[haterobics]

Posted: 4/17/14 at 11:55pm

Maybe just tell the theater staff that you don't support the homosexual lifestyle, so you would prefer one with a yellow banner? They may have some on hand for emergencies like that.

[AntV]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 1:39am

Sure they'll be rarer, but it's more of a uniform thing to fit with the collection. One "somehow" to obtain them would of course be eBay, but that costs money. Another is indeed asking the theater the next month, and not because of that snarky reason.

[FishermanBob]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 1:51am

If uniform is what you truly want, why not just keep 50 copies of the same Playbill you like the most and toss all those others with different words and pictures on the cover.

[Idiot]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 2:08am

This rubs me the wrong way a bit. It wouldn't have had they done it when it was actually a brave thing to do.

[theatregeek6]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 7:22am

For the first time in its 130 years, Playbill will alter its logo on the covers of all Broadway and Off-Broadway theatres

But that's not true-look at the entire 1974 season (as shown by Mr Nowack above) Updated On: 4/18/14 at 07:22 AM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 7:27am

That's lovely.

[MaddieBB12]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 8:47am

I love it. But I wonder, will this include the Playbills given out at the Tony Awards?

[WayTooBroadway]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 10:17am

Playbills aren't given out at the Tony Awards anymore. It's more of a book published by Where.

[kade.ivy]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 11:19am

This is a bit off topic, but this makes me wonder about the issue of Playbill distributed at theatres.

For example, for this month, are they distributing the March 31 issue or the issue that will become the April 30 issue?

I have a Playbill subscription in the mail, but when I receive it, it is dated for the last day of the previous month. For example, the issue I received a few weeks ago was the March 31 issue. So is it the issue that was distributed in March or the issue that is being distributed for the month of April? I hope this makes sense.

[WJR2]

Posted: 4/18/14 at 11:37am

I can't believe that people are upset about this... I think it's wonderful.

[divarobbie2]

Posted: 5/29/14 at 4:20pm

The first rainbow Playbill was tweeted.




First Rainbow Playbill tweet Updated On: 5/29/14 at 04:20 PM

[Alix]

Posted: 5/29/14 at 4:45pm

Aw, man! Seeing Hedwig this Saturday, 5/31. I wonder if they'll give me a pretty rainbow Playbill anyway...

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 5/29/14 at 4:48pm

Will this include the Tony playbill?

[KirbyCat]

Posted: 5/29/14 at 4:55pm

Last year, the Tony program was not printed by Playbill, so assuming it's the same company again this year, I highly doubt it'd come with the rainbow Playbill banner.

[Joviedamian]

Posted: 5/29/14 at 5:03pm

I guess that means some regional/touring theaters that don't use Playbill anymore will be out of luck. SF Best of Broadway recently changed from using Playbill as their official program distributor. They now print their playbills in-house. I wonder if other touring theaters do that?