Are thet still in color??? Which shows are always in color?
All the disney shows are I think.
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/06
beauty and the beast was black and white. yes wicked is still in color
I just figured that they do almost all in colour now, except for the older shows that were in b&w who just stay in B&w.
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/06
Trying to think of others....Hairspray is color. Phantom too (well, black but it's the same). The Wedding Singer was still in color at the end of its wrong. Jersey Boys still is, I think.
B & W
Avenue Q
Beauty and the Beast
Chicago
Company
Curtains
LoveMusik
Mamma Mia!
Old Acquaintance
110 in the Shade
Rent
Radio Golf
The Color Purple
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Phantom of the Opera
Color
A Chorus Line (still?)
Deuce
Frost/Nixon
Grey Gardens
Inherit the Wind
Jersey Boys
Legally Blonde
Mary Poppins
Spamalot
Spelling Bee
Spring Awakening
Tarzan
The Lion King
The Pirate Queen?
The Year of Magical Thinking...kind of
Wicked
ACL is still in color- I got ALL of those playbills basically when i was in NY so thas how i know.
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/06
I think Grey Gardens is actually black and white. It's kind of hard to tell though.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/05
Grey Gardens is now black and white.
Les Miserables is in color as well
The Pirate Queen is in color. I am a little surprised that Curtains changed to B&W so quickly. It's too bad that Company, The Drowsy Chaperone, and Grey Gardens all went to B&W -- I really like that type of design where most of the Playbill is a rich, deep color. I guess A Chorus Line is the only current Playbill with that design.
Why are they switching over to B&W? Was the price of using color ink getting too expensive?
Usually, since they save in the insides being in colour cause every playbill has the same info (the stories, not the cast list) but they have to change the covers, so they would save money having it as just a 2 colour job (black & white logo and yellow header) although the add on the back is in colour, so who knows.
Does Roundabout usually just do B&W, because both my Apple Tree and 110 Playbills are in B&W?
Roundabout always uses B&W because it saves money.
Shows that switch to black and white usually do so to save money.
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
A pet peeve of mine is when a logo that only looks good in color. It looks cheap...as if it were xeroxed.
The 2004 Fiddler Revival did a great thing....they simply put the title on the front for the black and white version.
I believe that both MTC and Roundabout only use B&W Playbills. Looking at the playbill.com site, it looks like the Grinch and Talk Radio also had B&W Playbills on opening night, which is surprising, especially for the Grinch, as did Radio Golf.
Broadway Star Joined: 7/24/06
Curtains is already in black and white? That wasn't very long.
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