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#26

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 11/12/09 at 10:38am

I LOVE both the High Society and Footloose artwork. Perfect!

<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES

#27

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 11/12/09 at 10:42am

Joanna Gleason's legs look pretty nice in that Nick & Nora poster, though.

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

#28

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 11/12/09 at 10:44am

"I didn't make the poster, love."

wow..

<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES

#29

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 11/12/09 at 3:43pm

Bosoms and Neglect
Got Tu Go Disco
Teaneck Tanzi
Welcome to the Club

they were all pretty dismal

#30

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 11/13/09 at 2:02pm

I think I get the concept behind the High Society poster...they're supposed to be aristocats.

(I couldn't help it).

"I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and dreamer of improbable dreams." - Doctor Who

"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables

#31

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 11/13/09 at 2:04pm

... Is it wrong that I think a T-shirt with that High Society poster on it would be hardcore? I kinda love it. It's so freaking weird.

#32

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 11/13/09 at 11:38pm

I can see it being sold at a kiosk at a mall. You know those kiosks. With the shirts with the paintings of wolves on them, or cats in a basket.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

#33

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 11/14/09 at 12:24am

Man, I have at least three great responses to Drunky's idiotic policing of blaxx's quite funny remark. Must...resist...urge...

#34

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 11/14/09 at 12:53am

I've always hated that abysmal, pedestrian artwork for FOOTLOOSE.

But then in retrospect if any artwork represented a show perfectly it was that one.

#35

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 11/16/09 at 1:35pm

This is one of the worst ones that comes to mind. I find it mildly disturbing... there's something almost indecent/frightening about it!

#36

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 11/16/09 at 2:36pm

I agree ^ that's pretty ugly.

<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES

#37

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 11/16/09 at 2:37pm

"Man, I have at least three great responses to Drunky's idiotic policing of blaxx's quite funny remark"

Here's one - He raised the bar of snark to a new high.

<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES

#38

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 11/16/09 at 2:51pm

OK, THE WILD PARTY logo (and show) is beyond brilliant.

The picture on the playbill/poster is a vintage 20s painting. I would link the full picture, but it is a nude so I don't wanna get in trouble. Needless to say, if you see the entire painting you will never forget it! It's very disturbing. Back to the close-up of just the face...

Does the face belong to a man or a woman? Is he/she screaming in pain or ecstasy? Why are his/her eyes so vacant?

All those elements (gender roles, actual sexuality vs. perceived sexuality, vapidness and feeling empty inside) are such important themes in the show.

Did you guys even see the show? If you did, you'd realize this was a very appropriate poster for the show as it was done on Broadway.

P

P.S. You prove my point with your original post, Wenn!

Updated On: 11/16/09 at 02:51 PM

#39

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 11/16/09 at 3:06pm

Good point, Pgenre. I did not see the show, and if I did, I probably would see what an apt symbol the Playbill is.

I was judging the art as shown which, as a cropped image, emphasizes the rawness of the original painting. I much prefer the painting in its entirety.

<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES

#40

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 5/12/10 at 4:22pm

I love the Broadway The Wild Party poster. I remember seeing it around NYC that year and being transfixed by the jazz age aesthetic.

This is a fun thread, and I'd like to get some discussion about artwork for Broadway musicals rolling.

I am researching artists, and one question I have at the moment is: Who designed the Got To Go Disco poster? Frankly, I love it.

With Irma you gotta do something!

#41

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 5/12/10 at 4:37pm

Joe Eula designed the Got Tu Go Disco poster. He's a great artist. He designs all of Liza's stuff. He also drew the poster for the Supremes' Lincoln Center concert in 1965.

#42

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 5/12/10 at 4:44pm

I should have guessed that! Thank you so much! Is he still with us, one wonders?

With Irma you gotta do something!

#43

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 5/12/10 at 4:53pm

LOOOOVE the THE WILD PARTY poster!

The old PROMISES, PROMISES, however...

"Wheee! Let's go girls and pose against this giant phallic key! Look! It's tilting UP! Tee-hee-hee!"

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

#44

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 5/12/10 at 5:38pm

The girls around the key was way better than the one with the girl with her legs wide open...talk about lewd and suggestive...what was up with that?!! All that's missing is her va-jay-jay.

re: You want bad artwork?

Updated On: 5/12/10 at 05:38 PM

#45

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 5/12/10 at 5:44pm

Promiscuous, Promiscuous

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22

#46

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 5/12/10 at 5:46pm

I love that someone would say the Wild Party has a bad logo, because it is mildly disturbing and "indecent/frightening". You are basically showing that it is good.

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

#47

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 5/12/10 at 5:49pm

lol @ besty. That logo belongs on a show entitled. "Come F*ck Me Fellas".

#48

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 5/12/10 at 6:55pm

Both Promises artwork are pretty over the top, but I think they are aesthetically interesting.

Joe Eula was artistic director on Got Tu Go Disco so that would make sense that he would design the poster. He passed away in 2004.
RIP EULA

With Irma you gotta do something!

#49

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 5/12/10 at 7:26pm

I've always thought the poster for the Papermill revival of 'Applause' with Stefanie Powers was incredibly boring.

Updated On: 5/12/10 at 07:26 PM

#50

re: You want bad artwork?

Posted: 5/12/10 at 7:29pm

I've always liked the HIGH SOCIETY and FOOTLOOSE artwork.

And THE WILD PARTY is one of the best ever...I don't know WHAT you're talking about.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

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