Picnic poster art
Picnic poster art
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#1Picnic poster art
Posted: 11/13/12 at 12:45pm
Funny, I didn't know Nicholas Sparks wrote Picnic!
http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/11/13/broadway-picnic-maggie-grace-sebastian-stan-poster/
#2Picnic poster art
Posted: 11/13/12 at 12:58pm
Really? This is the poster?! I hope they just use the title for the Playbill.
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Updated On: 11/13/12 at 12:58 PM
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#3Picnic poster art
Posted: 11/13/12 at 8:03pm
That artwork is a damn shame.
Looks like generic Lifetime movie art. It's just lazy.
#5Picnic poster art
Posted: 11/13/12 at 8:16pm
^^^ Totally agreed.
I admit, I was expecting a generic poster with no images, for some reason--but I don't like this more. If I saw it in a subway I don't think I'd even know it was a play.
#6Picnic poster art
Posted: 11/13/12 at 8:37pmLAME
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#7Picnic poster art
Posted: 11/13/12 at 8:37pmLAME
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
#8Picnic poster art
Posted: 11/13/12 at 8:42pmGAWDAWFUL...so chick-flicky...i think i'm gonna hurl!
#9Picnic poster art
Posted: 11/13/12 at 8:46pmI think the major thing wrong with this is that it makes it look like a new Nicholas Sparks movie, especially with Sebastian Stan on it. It tells me nothing about the play besides that there will be kissing in it...
Xanadu! Can't cry on cue!
#10Picnic poster art
Posted: 11/13/12 at 9:23pmWilliam Inge's "Chicflic."
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#11Picnic poster art
Posted: 11/13/12 at 9:58pmIs every dream seems big meant to be some sort of innuendo? While the leads in the play are, I guess, dreaming of something more than what they have, that tagline irks me nearly as much as the overall image.
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#12Picnic poster art
Posted: 11/13/12 at 11:11pmThe bigger issue for me is the seasonal timing: does this show scream spring or summer? Somehow, the winter opening just seems odd, and the artwork is generically sunny and 2012ish, if not offensive. They would've been wise to play up the 50s, which conjure up baby boomer childhoods and/or retro chic. The era is missing entirely, other than the font, and the photo is, yeah, Sparks-ian.
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#13Picnic poster art
Posted: 11/13/12 at 11:55pmI'm a little surprised that the era isn't played up more, as well. I don't think there's any reason why it shouldn't open in the Winter (it's not exactly a show that is all about celebrating Summer, despite the setting or the *long* ridiculous shots of Summer fair "fun" in the movie version), but otherwise agree.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#14Picnic poster art
Posted: 11/14/12 at 10:39amThe Entertainment Magazine logo in the lower left corner suggests that this is a print ad, not a poster.
#15Picnic poster art
Posted: 11/14/12 at 10:45amThe Roundabout website is still using the text-only treatment, so I hope this one is just a print ad. It's really tacky.
