The Music Man is up on the Marquee!!- Page 2

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 9/18/20 at 10:03pm

blaxx said: "The artwork sure makes me want to stay six feet away from the theater."

Or rather, seventy-six feet away???

[blaxx]

Posted: 9/18/20 at 10:08pm

Jordan Levinson said: "blaxx said: "The artwork sure makes me want to stay six feet away from the theater."

Or rather, seventy-six feet away???"

Ohhh, you got trouble!

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 9/18/20 at 10:36pm

blaxx said: "Jordan Levinson said: "blaxx said: "The artwork sure makes me want to stay six feet away from the theater."

Or rather, seventy-six feet away???"

Ohhh, you got trouble!"

Whaddya talk, whaddya talk?

[Luminaire2]

Posted: 9/19/20 at 12:48am

Wow. It’s hideous. Who thought this was enticing? Is this the aesthetic merch people have to work off of?

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 9/19/20 at 2:18am

Yeah that’s ugly. And to whomever said Rudin didn’t think about his mistakes with Dolly... uh, he made coin off Dolly.


It’s weird times. But this is hopeful!

[SmoothLover]

Posted: 9/19/20 at 2:20am

Has anyone ever done a version of The Music Man that takes place in the (pre-Covid) present? Seems like it could work......

[Tom5]

Posted: 9/20/20 at 5:15pm

I'm sure it was designed to reassure everyone that The Music Man was set at least one hundred years away from 2020.

[jo]

Posted: 9/20/20 at 6:12pm

Tom5 said: "I'm sure it was designed to reassure everyone that The Music Man wasset at least one hundred years away from 2020."

 The series of art work support the premise that this will be a period Americana revival...and I am pleased to go along with that.

 

[jo]

Posted: 9/20/20 at 6:12pm

Tom5 said: "I'm sure it was designed to reassure everyone that The Music Man was set at least one hundred years away from 2020."

 The series of art work support the premise that this will be a period Americana revival...and I am pleased to go along with that.

 

Updated On: 9/20/20 at 06:12 PM

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 9/20/20 at 8:10pm

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 9/20/20 at 8:10pm

Updated On: 9/20/20 at 08:10 PM

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 9/20/20 at 8:11pm

[Theatrefanboy1]

Posted: 9/21/20 at 8:40am

I actually love the vintageness or this. Just like hello dolly. It seemed more of an event. I look forward to seeing signage like this whenever he decides to product a star studded Mame or Gypsy or funny girl or Oliver!

[jonah3500]

Posted: 9/21/20 at 8:47am

Theatrefanboy1 said: "I actually love the vintageness or this. Just like hello dolly. It seemed more of an event. I look forward to seeing signage like this whenever he decides to product a star studded Mame or Gypsy or funny girl or Oliver! "

Hello again, Scott!

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 9/21/20 at 8:52am

I also love the vintage look.

[blaxx]

Posted: 9/21/20 at 9:10am

Theatrefanboy1 said: "I actually love the vintageness or this. Just like hello dolly. It seemed more of an event. I look forward to seeing signage like this whenever he decides to product a star studded Mame or Gypsy or funny girl or Oliver! "

That's not vintage. That's basic 30 min photoshop. It's the laziest marquee design in recent memory.

[dianamorales]

Posted: 9/21/20 at 10:11am

From a design perspective- it's extremely busy/hard to read, uninteresting, and the color scheme is awful and exacerbates the other problems. It has NONE of the honest vintage feel of Hello, Dolly's marquee.

I'm confused. Who approved this??

[mamaleh]

Posted: 9/21/20 at 10:22am

To the poster who wrote that Hugh will have aged out by next year, didn't Norm Lewis play Harold Hill last year at the Kennedy Center?  He's 57, by the way. 

And Jonah? I know "Jo."  That person is definitely NOT Scott Rudin, just an ebullient fan of Broadway, THE MUSIC MAN and Hugh Jackman.  

[jo]

Posted: 9/21/20 at 11:18am

Worry not, Mamaleh

It seems he has trouble recognizing people - he also called someone else "Scott" 

[LaneBryant]

Posted: 9/21/20 at 1:26pm

Gross. That mess isn't opening in April. And after everything that's happening right now, after artists are fighting to make spaces more equitable and inclusive, and less racist and unsafe, nobody wants to mask up and risk catching Corona to watch that many White people do anything..... Do Better!!!!!!!

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 9/21/20 at 1:50pm

Based on the ticket sales, I think you're wrong. 

[Robbie2]

Posted: 9/21/20 at 2:32pm

[Robbie2]

Posted: 9/21/20 at 2:33pm

jo said: "



Sometime in 2021!


The Music Man IS coming to Broadway ... and he's selling a million dreams!



"

[Robbie2]

Posted: 9/21/20 at 2:36pm

jo said: "Thanks for the great photos, BWW!

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Up-on-the-Marquee-THE-MUSIC-MAN-Prepares-for-Broadways-Return-at-the-Winter-Garden-Theatere-20200918

You've added a true sense of excitement! Seeing those early signs that Broadway may awaken in the not too distant future is already a gift formany us !"

now and then...

[itsjustmejonhotmailcom]

Posted: 9/21/20 at 2:45pm

blaxx said: "Theatrefanboy1 said: "I actually love the vintageness or this. Just like hello dolly. It seemed more of an event. I look forward to seeing signage like this whenever he decides to product a star studded Mame or Gypsy or funny girl or Oliver! "

That's not vintage. That's basic 30 min photoshop. It's the laziest marquee design in recent memory."

You can dislike the Music Man key art, and you can think it won't help sell tickets, but I don't think you can accurately say it is lazy design. Rudin uses an agency in LA to create his key art (and then it used to get passed off to SpotCo, who knows who he's using now.) But that agency and his key art had less many movies to getting Oscars and many shows to getting Tonys, so like it or not, it seems to be working for him.