Ugliest Broadway posters
Ugliest Broadway posters
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#1Ugliest Broadway posters
Posted: 1/2/15 at 10:12pm
The other thread had me thinking. What are the ugliest posters created for Broadway? Obviously, Welcome to the Club is a given.
Updated On: 1/2/15 at 10:12 PM
#2Ugliest Broadway posters
Posted: 1/2/15 at 10:14pm
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#2Ugliest Broadway posters
Posted: 1/2/15 at 10:15pm
Bridges of Madison County (original red). The show looked so boring to me, and I didn't want to take a chance so I rushed instead. If they had done a better job with the marketing I might have bought a full-price ticket (and if I had time to see it again I would have). The staff looked so cringeworthy walking around in that red merchandise.
The new marketing campaign was a lot better, but far too late to help save the show.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#7Ugliest Broadway posters
Posted: 1/2/15 at 10:28pmBeautiful hasn't gotten new posters yet, and I'm not sure why. I like the new cover a lot more.
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#8Ugliest Broadway posters
Posted: 1/2/15 at 10:29pm
Do you mean the one with the piano? Because, yes they do
http://tritongallery.com/triton/posters/beautifulphoto.htm
#9Ugliest Broadway posters
Posted: 1/2/15 at 10:38pm
I'm gonna dredge up some from the mega-flops of the '70s. Perhaps these hideous designs contributed to their failures??
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#11Ugliest Broadway posters
Posted: 1/2/15 at 10:38pm
This is one that I kinda like but kinda hate at the same time.
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Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#12Ugliest Broadway posters
Posted: 1/2/15 at 10:40pmI feel the same way about Via Galactica. I think I really like the typography for the title, but that's it.
Fantod
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/3/14
#14Ugliest Broadway posters
Posted: 1/2/15 at 11:26pmkeep in mind posters are very influenced by the periods they were designed in.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#15Ugliest Broadway posters
Posted: 1/2/15 at 11:27pmRachel the show was as ugly as the poster.
Poster Emeritus
#16Ugliest Broadway posters
Posted: 1/2/15 at 11:36pmA Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder's poster looks ugly. Its orange & gave me the impression that the show would suck... and it did. Posters do make me want to see shows sometimes... like the Gigi revival design looks amazing!
#17Ugliest Broadway posters
Posted: 1/2/15 at 11:36pmA Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder's poster looks ugly. Its orange & gave me the impression that the show would suck... and it did. Posters do make me want to see shows sometimes... like the Gigi revival design looks amazing!
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Stand-by Joined: 4/4/11
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Visceral_Fella
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/18/12
#20Ugliest Broadway posters
Posted: 1/3/15 at 2:44amThe Carrie poster is actually quite fierce, especially when you take into account that her face is made out of telepathy symbols.
#21Ugliest Broadway posters
Posted: 1/3/15 at 3:06am
IF/THEN
"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 03:06 AM
#22Ugliest Broadway posters
Posted: 1/3/15 at 3:50am
They must have just gotten new posters at Beautiful. I know that the playbills have had the new design for awhile. I LOVE the new version, and really dislike the older one.
I agree that the original Carrie artwork kicks butt. As for Gentleman's Guide I hated the poster with just the hat, but I love the new one with the piano that advertises the show's Tony win.
#23Ugliest Broadway posters
Posted: 1/3/15 at 8:00amFinding Namo
Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiae
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
Bell0708
Stand-by Joined: 7/23/13
#24Ugliest broadway posters
Posted: 1/3/15 at 4:44pmThe poster for Footloose is hideous! Looks like a 6 year old drew it!
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