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rockfenris2005 08:40 am UTC 08/03/11 |
| In reply to: | re: Zoltar's BOOH The Musical Poster - steven_stuart 12:02 am UTC 08/03/11 |
Yup, I think the Bat logo should be really powerful and striking, like the logos for "Cats" and "Phantom", as you said, and "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Les Miz". I don't like these new logos like "Spider-Man" and "The Wizard of Oz". I don't know, they feel cluttered to me. And "Love Never Dies" doesn't really have an identity because the logo's always changing, first the death mask, then the Phantom movie ripoff where Christine looks more deformed than the Phantom, hehe, and the Melbourne logo which could have been used for the original, and the recent London advertisement that looks like the cover of a romance novel, and they actually called it "Phantom 2: Love Never Dies". But "Cats" was the eyes, "Les Miz" was the young Cosette, and "Phantom" was the mask and the rose (originally a gloved hand as well but ALW removed it because he was superstitious about "Jeeves" which had a gloved hand in the logo, and played at the same theatre where "Phantom" opened), and also, "Rocky Horror" with the lips. I like the one that Meat Loaf used on his 2007 tour, with the splattered blood in the shape of a bat... Yeah, something striking and bold and daring, like that, but way cooler. And then later on you could add all sorts of images. And there's no reason why you couldn't print the original artwork in the programme etc. > >(forget Bat 3, which apart from the Bat, was a bit > > of a mess). > > You can say that again. Jim won't even acknowledge the > existance of Bat 3. > > > Most show posters are quite clean and uncluttered, with > > emphasis on a large title. > > This is true. I like the work that Cameron Mackintosh did > with Dewynters for "Phantom", "Cats" and "Les Miz". > > > I envisage a large angry Bat (similar to Bat 3) with 'Bat > > Out of Hell' tattooed across it's wings. > > I can see that. > > > But then does a Bat have anything to do with the show? > > Some people ask that question. Or they ask if Neverland > has anything to do with a Bat. The other way round. I > think they are connected but its difficult to explain. > > > Should references to Peter Pan be on the poster? Is Peter > > Pan still relevant to the story? Is Obsidian an > > apocalyptic NYC? Should there be a motorbike somewhere? > > Peter Pan is the story. Obsidian is a future NY but some > people don't like the apocalyptic bit. I'm not sure why. I > love it. It helps to make this Peter Pan or Neverland > unique. The Obsidan concept and the music will result in a > completely different Peter Pan. Hopefully the best Peter > Pan ever. > > > Whoever the designer is, will have a tough job (if it > > hasn't been finished already). > > The designer has a very difficult job. He has to turn > Jim's wonderful imagination into reality on stage. | |
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