Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

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Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 8/31/09 at 2:44pm

BURN THE FLOOR (Longacre Theater)


BYE, BYE BIRDIE (Henry Miller Theater)


A STEADY RAIN (Gerald Schoenfeld Theater)

#2

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 8/31/09 at 2:46pm

Interesting - I thought Roundabout always did B/W covers.

#3

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 8/31/09 at 3:04pm

The Steady Rain cover is for real unattractive, no?

#4

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 8/31/09 at 3:23pm

Bye, Bye Birdie will probably go black and white, but this is a rare case where I think I actually like it better that way. It looks even more vintage.

Updated On: 8/31/09 at 03:23 PM

#5

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 8/31/09 at 3:26pm

A Steady Rain's artwork is pretty awful.

#6

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 8/31/09 at 3:48pm

I fully agree on the artwork for A Steady Rain. It makes me feel like I'm watching this type of thing...



Would have been better with just the title on that black grungy background. Or a more stylish picture of the two gentlemen.

#7

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 8/31/09 at 3:49pm

I don't like the look of Bye-Bye Birdie in black and white. The color gives it more energy and excitement. And the eye they share in A Steady Rain is really creepy. I thought we already saw the Burn the Floor artwork. I at least recognized it from the picture of the opening night playbill they sell on playbillstore.com. I wonder if Finnian's Rainbow will be in color.

#8

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 8/31/09 at 4:51pm

I'm sure Finnian's Rainbow will be color for the first month. I love that Artwork.

#9

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 8/31/09 at 5:22pm

I love the Bye Bye Birdie Playbill. I was hoping that would be the picture. Not that it really matters.

#10

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 9/1/09 at 11:59am

I actually think the A Steady Rain playbill is really interesting, but it doesn't work for the show IMO. The artwork almost seems to imply that the two men are one (like brothers/split personalities), which is not the case if I understand the show correctly.

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#11

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 9/2/09 at 8:19am

Two more from playbill.com:


MEMPHIS (Shubert Theatre)


HAMLET (Broadhurst Theatre)

#12

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 9/2/09 at 9:02am

I love the Memphis colors.

#13

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 9/2/09 at 9:14am

the Hamlet Playbill looks nice, but the marquee creeped me out a little, since it reminded me of Dr. J. T. Eckleburg.

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#14

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 9/2/09 at 3:09pm

I think the advertising for MEMPHIS looks great. It is unlike any other Broadway artwork right now. Is this Spotco? If so, GO DREW, (finally).

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#15

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 9/2/09 at 4:50pm

Guess I'm in the minority--I vaguely, kinda like the Steady Rain artwork...it's Birdie I find incredibly boring/stock art-ish.

#16

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 9/2/09 at 4:53pm

Daniel Craig looks like the unibomber in that photos.

#17

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 9/2/09 at 6:26pm

Memphis looks great & hope the show will be as good.

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#18

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 9/2/09 at 6:31pm

It's awful Roxie. Truly awful.

#19

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 9/2/09 at 7:45pm

Sorry to hear that.

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#20

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 9/2/09 at 10:43pm

care to elaborate, bobbybubby? i'm interested to hear what you have to say about the show. i dont know squat about it

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#21

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 9/2/09 at 11:05pm

I was hoping they'd use simply this for Bye Bye Birdie:

#22

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 9/2/09 at 11:24pm

I actually really like "A Steady Rain"'s..and I'm a graphic designer...go figure. Memphis's is also great, and Hamlet's is very simple and very nice.

#23

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 9/4/09 at 4:06pm

Playbill just put up the playbills for After Miss Julie, and Wishful Drinking. I don't know how to post pictures on here though. You can find them in the multimedia section of playbill.com

#24

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 9/4/09 at 4:08pm

Thanks for the heads up, bandit964!


AFTER MISS JULIE (American Airlines Theatre)


WISHFUL DRINKING (Studio 54)

#25

re: Playbill covers for the 2009-2010 season

Posted: 9/4/09 at 4:24pm

The Wishful Drinking Playbill is hysterical.

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