Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway

[Julie Yard]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#1

Posted: 12/31/14 at 3:23pm

Thought this was a fun article and other's might have some thoughts.

I loved the Stage Kiss poster, and all the Hedwigs are spot on. The Yentl poster is great too. If other posters sold you maybe you can post the image.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/31/arts/posters-the-fine-art-of-selling-theater.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&module=inside-nyt-region®ion=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region

Dolittle

[Fantod]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#2

Posted: 12/31/14 at 3:23pm

Every single one of those posters aside from Stage Kiss is hideous

[Fantod]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#2

Posted: 12/31/14 at 3:28pm

The nicest poster this year was Act One

[macnyc]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#3

Posted: 12/31/14 at 3:29pm

Yentl was good too!

[JoseLee_]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#4

Posted: 12/31/14 at 3:30pm

My favorite poster of the year is Side Show.. if i had no idea what the show was about.. i'd still want it

[RippedMan]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#5

Posted: 12/31/14 at 4:08pm

See I think all of those are really clever.

I thought Side Show was terrible. It was just bland and unimaginative, which I think reflects some of the show's problems.

[gleek4114]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#6

Posted: 12/31/14 at 4:36pm

I've always been partial to the Broadway Next to Normal poster. The sorrow filled eyes looming over a suburban neighborhood. But Next to Normal has lent itself to some great designs for various regional productions. The show has so many "iconic" and/or thought provoking images that could be centered around in a design.

[Fantod]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#7

Posted: 12/31/14 at 4:42pm

If we're talking all time, then Mame, Carousel, Dear World, Gypsy (revival), Follies, and Hallelujah, Baby!

Updated On: 12/31/14 at 04:42 PM

[uncageg]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#8

Posted: 12/31/14 at 6:23pm

I love the poster for The Last Ship. It is my favorite B'way poster right now. Also love the posters for "Nevermore". Especially the one of the guy wearing the cool glasses.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[Wee Thomas2]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#9

Posted: 1/2/15 at 4:04pm

That Act One poster is great.

This is my favorite one of all time, though. Just love the colors

[Fantod]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#10

Posted: 1/2/15 at 4:34pm

Yes, that poster is beautiful. Did McMullan ever do an Our Town poster?

I still say this is the best poster

[Mr. Nowack]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#11

Posted: 1/2/15 at 6:08pm

This has always been one of my favorites. The way the title makes a shadow and the way the powerline poles get smaller to suggest the unending desert is just wonderful.

Keeping BroadwayWorld Illustrated

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[Fantod]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#12

Posted: 1/2/15 at 6:10pm

The Broadway version in color looks even nicer

Updated On: 1/2/15 at 06:10 PM

[Mr. Nowack]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#13

Posted: 1/2/15 at 6:10pm

This one is bizarrely modern and I love it.

Keeping BroadwayWorld Illustrated

[Mr. Nowack]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#14

Posted: 1/2/15 at 6:12pm

This one is even more striking than the OBC on a black background with those purple letters.

Keeping BroadwayWorld Illustrated

[Mr. Nowack]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#15

Posted: 1/2/15 at 6:12pm

This one is just so elegant and beautifully painted

Keeping BroadwayWorld Illustrated

Updated On: 1/2/15 at 06:12 PM

[Mr. Nowack]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#16

Posted: 1/2/15 at 6:13pm

These next two I just stumbled across and have no idea what the plays are about but I'm so intrigued by the posters.

Keeping BroadwayWorld Illustrated

[Mr. Nowack]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#17

Posted: 1/2/15 at 6:13pm

Keeping BroadwayWorld Illustrated

[Mr. Nowack]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#18

Posted: 1/2/15 at 6:14pm

And this is one of my all-time favourites as well. So simple but so great.

Keeping BroadwayWorld Illustrated

[Fantod]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#19

Posted: 1/2/15 at 6:16pm

I love how simple and cheerful this one looks:


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[Fantod]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#20

Posted: 1/2/15 at 6:18pm

And Mr. Nowack, I don't know about The Midnight Sun, but The Moon is Blue is a delightfully funny play.

[Kad]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#21

Posted: 1/2/15 at 9:38pm

How did you come to be familiar with The Moon is Blue, Fantod?

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[Fantod]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#22

Posted: 1/2/15 at 9:40pm

The script

Updated On: 1/2/15 at 09:40 PM

[Mr. Nowack]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#23

Posted: 1/2/15 at 10:03pm

Just one more I just stumbled across today. I love the art deco look of it, evoking the posters of the '20s and '30s in 1975.

Keeping BroadwayWorld Illustrated

[Robbie2]

Posters: The Fine Art of Selling Broadway#24

Posted: 1/3/15 at 3:18am

~ SWEENEY TODD ~
Just one of my favorites over the years

"Anything you do, let it it come from you--then it will be new." Sunday in the Park with George

Updated On: 1/3/15 at 03:18 AM