Ugliest Broadway posters — Page 3

"The point is that the poster doesn't have a REASON for his dislike."

One doesn't have to give a reason.

"This being a DISCUSSION board makes an explanation important. It is immature to say, "just because", so therefore age IS A FACTOR. "

The posters who cited Soon, Rachel Lily Rosenbloom, Footloose, Carrie, and others gave no reasons. Does that make them them equally "immature?"

And age is not a factor. There are 30 somethings here who were biting their nails over the outcome of the Tony Awards, who shriek/cry hysterically at nonsense, and who use words such as "fav." Not to mention the eminent elder statespeople here who regularly use the sn*ing gutter language of junior high school students in their everyday discourse and in their lame and embarrassing attempts at "bon mots."

Kindergarteners display greater maturity.

Alway nice to see an educator who has open contempt for his/her students. I feel sorry for the kids you "teach"... for many reasons.

I have never been a fan of the Assassins revival poster. I think it's a totally fangless and poor representation of the show with a terribly literal design concept. And I know those colors were used heavily in the show's lighting design, but here they don't inform you much of what the show is.

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Delirious for not mindlessly discriminating based on age?? I may be delirious but it's better than overwhelmingly cynical and pretentious.

And the fact is these posters are art, no matter how you feel about them, and a person may not know why a piece of art just seems hideous or gorgeous to them.

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The original poster for Jane Eyre was hideous.
If I recall correctly, it was a terrible drawing of her reading under a tree.
I saw it once in the times before it opened and never again.

The final poster art was much better.

I recall the curtain changed as well in previews.

Re: Gentleman's Guide:

"Its orange & gave me the impression that the show would suck... and it did."

If a poster gives you the impression that you won't like the show, and you then don't like the show, wouldn't that mean it was an effective poster?!

The majority of your class gets C's????? And I'm not superior, I'm just glad that my teachers actually are interested in hearing what their students have to say instead of just telling their kids to blindly accept what their teachers say. For example, we learned about Henry David Thoreau this most recent semester, and for my final on the subject I wrote about how Transcendentalism is detrimental to our society and received a pretty good grade on it, despite it conflicting with the teacher's viewpoints because it was reasonably well put together and thought out. Now, here on this website, I am under no obligation to give a research paper on each of my opinions, but the fact still remains that I am capable of having my own thoughts and don't have to copy how others feel. If you just tell kids what to think, how will they ever find their own thoughts? I don't claim my opinions are better than others', just that they should be equally valued. So, I will repeat, I am very glad that you are not my teacher because I cannot imagine how stressful it must be to be in a classroom where varying opinions are not accepted, because then I could never learn to say what I actually meant. Have you ever heard the song "The Company Way" from How to Succeed? Well that is exactly the philosophy you are teaching. Because we are young, we have absolutely nothing smart to say so we must never learn to speak for ourselves until what we have to say is exactly like everyone else.

"I have constantly been told that my classes are their favorites and have always been one of the most popular teachers in my school."

Are they going to tell you you're their worst teacher? And what do you think they are telling their other teachers?

"Why?"

Perhaps to suck up to you?

Our school systems are shortchanging our young people badly.

Teachers with attitudes like yours are part of the problem.

The Carrie and Sunday in the Park windowcards are both conceptually fantastic.

Fantod. It is not your opinion that rubbed posters the wrong way. It is the fact that you did nothing to back it up with a substantive argument (until later pushed to do so).

Even though I loved the show, HANDS ON A HARDBODY had a difficult one to do.

Pray tell: WHAT is wrong with the Sunday in the Park with George poster? I've always loved it.

Nothing. It is a brilliant distillation of the show's two acts set a century apart and ties in a hint of the Seurat painting that inspired it. I think a good show card looks god full sized in color and shrunk down to 1/8 of a page in the N Y Times and in either format plants a seed of intrigue in the viewer's mind.

BTW if you think the poster for FOOTLOOSE looks hideous you should have seen what they did to the exterior of the Richard Rodgers theatre.

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(In a related note, I thought this thread was about the ugliest people posting on the message board.)

No that thread would be titled: Ugliest BroadwayWorld.com posters.