Worst Show Poster — Page 4

oh, it's SO. UGLY.

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I was in the city Sunday, and when I looked up and saw the new Rent billboard, I cringed. It's just so...cheesy.

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Oh, Mister Matt, oh no. I've seen similar artwork for dinner theatre in Frankenmuth, Michigan. *shudder*

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Although I like it because I know the show and the story behind why they used the picture...a lot of people who see my poster of LaChiusa's The Wild Party hate it. They say the face is scary and it looks like the eyes are following them around the room LOL.

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FINALLY! A chance to discuss this!

I'm sorry to have to report that, IMO, my beloved Sweeney Todd has the worst poster in town!
Did the artist(s) even SEE the production?!
Blue?
Why BLUE! Tell me!!
There's not a stitch of blue anywhere on that stage that I can see - even Tobias' pj's look steel gray to me.

Home runs could easily have been hit by using the excellent black, white, and red color themes displayed throughout.
(White Stripes, anyone??)

For a show that is so iconically designed, how could a poster like that be let out onto the public? It does not indicate at all, IMO, the harmonious, luscious lighting, costume, and scenic successes nestled and pulsing within the theater walls.

I know Fidelity Investments is sponsoring the show, but must they
make its posters and ads look like bank circulars?

(don't get me started on the website... they had/have a chance to pull in A LOT more viewers if they'd update it - make it fun, modern and fresh - duh!)

Wow - been waiting to vent about that one for a while!
Thanks Broadwayworld.com!

Updated On: 2/24/06 at 05:37 PM

I believe that the ugliest posters ever for a Broadway show are:

the Broadway version of "Chess" (How Trevor Nunn could replace that terrific one from the concept album with this, I'll never know. This looks like the cover of a very bad spy novel. And one that was published by a "vanity" press, at that!)

and

"A Doll's Life" (Supposedly, the New York Times refused to print the original poster that featured a topless doll. But this one looks like it was doodled on napkin at lunch.)

And both of these were done by reputable poster artists. The "Chess" was done by the same people who did "Cats" and the original "Chess" and "Les Mis" etc. And "Doll's Life" was done by Fraver, who did the original "Sweeney Todd" and "Deathtrap"!
You can view both of them at the Triton Gallery website.

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the new RENT poster is SO UGLY

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It's not really bad, but the poster for "The Drowsy Chaperone" confused the HELL out of me when I saw in it L.A. I just couldn't tell if it was, like, serious, or if all the pictures of the cast would really be on the playbill, or what. I'm just not a fan.

When I saw the Little Women poster, I thought, that LOOKS like a flop poster

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I guess I'm a sucker for the simple posters with a very recognizable logo (Lion King, Cats, Wicked) ...for this reason, I really really liked Little Women's poster (blushes..). I know it was kind of cheesy, buy I thought it was pretty clever and simple. shrugs..

I wouldn't be surprised if the RENT Now campaign didn't have some strange subliminal message. The colors are all 70's and blend together. Not to mention there are so many images on the poster you never know what hidden messages could be on that poster. So maybe it has teens across America chanting "RENT now. RENT now. RENT now."

...or maybe it's just ugly.

Yeah, guessing it's the latter.

Well, I'll aruge the other side. I really like the new RENT poster. I think speaks to the new generation of teens. It is the sort of "style" that is circulating right now, just look at some of the new CD covers of some of the new punk/emo/poprock artists. It might not work for some of ya'll, but as a teenager, I'm really drawn to it. Although, its hard to beat the original. But I applaud them for trying to keep it contemporary.