Playbills - b/w or color?
Playbills - b/w or color?
Lynnespock2
Broadway Star Joined: 5/14/04
#1Playbills - b/w or color?
Posted: 7/7/08 at 10:15pm
I have two questions for the board. First, which shows still use a color Playbill? Also, which shows have the lead(s) on the cover?
This will settle a bet.
#2re: Playbills - b/w or color?
Posted: 7/7/08 at 10:19pm
Grease, November and (arguably, because its not really clear that Jeff and Hunter are on the cover, and they're not the selling point) [title of show] have leads on the cover.
Roundabout uses black and white playbills, and Passing Strange used both color and black and white. August: Osage County also uses black and white, as does Xanadu, and Legally Blonde.
Thats all I know...
Most others use color.
Updated On: 7/7/08 at 10:19 PM
#2re: Playbills - b/w or color?
Posted: 7/7/08 at 10:23pm
The ones I have:
Color-Spamalot and In The Heights
B/W-Mamma Mia! and Chicago
jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#3re: Playbills - b/w or color?
Posted: 7/7/08 at 10:24pmGypsy has gone to black and white. Miss Thing is on the cover, obviously.
LIVE THAT LESSON!!!!!!
#4re: Playbills - b/w or color?
Posted: 7/7/08 at 10:26pm
Color:
HAIRSPRAY
IN THE HEIGHTS
JERSEY BOYS
MARY POPPINS
SOUTH PACIFIC
SPAMALOT
SPRING AWAKENING
THE LION KING
TEH LITTLE MERMAID
*I'm almost positive all those are still using color. I know SPAMALOT switched back to color around the time Clay started.
#5re: Playbills - b/w or color?
Posted: 7/7/08 at 10:26pm
A lot of shows every year switch to black and white Playbills in July. Gypsy, Grease (the B&W Playbill only features the title logo -- the leads are NOT on the cover), and Young Frankenstein all switched to B&W this weekend.
#6re: Playbills - b/w or color?
Posted: 7/7/08 at 10:27pm
A CATERED AFFAIR - color cover (at least, as of last week) with photos of leads (in character) on the cover
RENT - B/W
39 STEPS - B/W
#7re: Playbills - b/w or color?
Posted: 7/8/08 at 1:09am
chorus line is color i believe....and wicked has its 2 dimentional (sp?) star kerry ellis on the cover (you'd think that with the way she does the role...
is south pacific's playbill color, i thought it was.
altar boys is black and white but its also off-broadway
thats about it of the ones not mentioned earlier
#8re: Playbills - b/w or color?
Posted: 7/8/08 at 1:14amWICKED has Kerry Ellis on the cover? Did they switch it from the previously used logo?
#9re: Playbills - b/w or color?
Posted: 7/8/08 at 1:16amno, its the same cartoon....much like the caracter kerry portays, flat
#10re: Playbills - b/w or color?
Posted: 7/8/08 at 2:11pmA Chorus Line is in black and white. They changed from the red logo playbill to a black and white one of about 1/3 of the line. Weirdly enough it features actors that left and began after the cast change in August.
#11re: Playbills - b/w or color?
Posted: 7/8/08 at 2:14pmXanadu's Playbill cover has Kerry and Cheyenne on the front.
#12re: Playbills - b/w or color?
Posted: 7/8/08 at 2:15pm
xanadu's playbill changes what, every day?
and didnt legally blonde have a color one until the first OBC cast member left?
#13re: Playbills - b/w or color?
Posted: 7/8/08 at 2:17pmXanadu actually has a different playbill this month. Curtis isn't listed as an understudy and is above the title with Kerry and Tony. The playbill is just the cartoon of Kerry like outside the theatre.
#15re: Playbills - b/w or color?
Posted: 7/8/08 at 2:41pmWhoops, sorry for the misinformation. I was just going off the playbill that I got in mid-June.
#16re: Playbills - b/w or color?
Posted: 7/8/08 at 2:51pm
Does this seem right?
• [title of show] - color
• A Catered Affair - started in color, now B&W
• A Chorus Line –now B&W
• August: Osage County – always B&W
• Avenue Q – now B&W
• Boeing-Boeing – color
• Chicago – now B&W
• Cirque Dreams - always B&W
• Grease- B&W as of this week
• Gypsy – B&W as of this week
• Hairspray - color
• In the Heights - color
• Jersey Boys - color
• Legally Blonde – now B&W
• Mamma Mia! – now B&W
• Mary Poppins - color
November – always B&W
• Passing Strange – now B&W
• Rent – now B&W
• South Pacific – still color
• Spamalot – was color, then B&W, now color
• Spring Awakening – still color
• The 39 Steps - was B&W at Roundabout, then color at Cort, now B&W (thanks, verynewyorkcurious!)
• The Country Girl - was color drawing, now color photo
• The Lion King – still color
• The Little Mermaid – still color
• The Phantom of the Opera –always B&W
• Thurgood – still color
• Wicked –still color
• Xanadu –now B&W
• Young Frankenstein – B&W as of this week
#17re: Playbills - b/w or color?
Posted: 7/8/08 at 3:03pm
The Gypsy playbills look pretty horrible black and white. I think it would have been better if they got rid of Patti's picture and just had the logo... that'd wouldn't have looked so bad.
Updated On: 7/8/08 at 03:03 PM
#18re: Playbills - b/w or color?
Posted: 7/8/08 at 3:55pm
The 39 Steps at the Cort is B/W. They changed it for June. I asked if they had any extra color ones but of course they did not.
I'm glad Xanadu went back to the illustration of Kira with the hands. I never liked the one with Kerry Butler and Cheyenne Jackson.
Updated On: 7/8/08 at 03:55 PM
DRSLOL776
Chorus Member Joined: 5/22/08
#19re: Playbills - b/w or color?
Posted: 7/8/08 at 4:10pm
why do they change it back and fourth? Cause it costs more for color?
Just wondering -- do the Playbills appear color when shows open brand spankin’ new and then they change it to black and white later on?
#20re: Playbills - b/w or color?
Posted: 7/8/08 at 4:13pm
why do they change it back and fourth? Cause it costs more for color?
Yes.
Just wondering -- do the Playbills appear color when shows open brand spankin’ new and then they change it to black and white later on?
Usually. Some shows go straight to B/W.
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