Sardi's Caricatures
Sardi's Caricatures
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#1Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/7/13 at 4:02am
I always thought they were cute to look at. But for the past few years, they have looked nothing like the celebrity. There's still some decent ones, but some...yikes! Maybe they need a caricaturist with a younger eye?
Is this Cyndi Lauper or Jane Krakowski?
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
Updated On: 6/7/13 at 04:02 AM
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#2Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/7/13 at 4:07am
Clay Aiken does NOT look like Zac Efron...
Hugh Jackman?!
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
Updated On: 6/7/13 at 04:07 AM
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/7/13 at 6:43amThey really aren't caricatures anymore. Aren't they supposed to exxagerate a feature? These have become more like cartoon drawings.
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#3Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/7/13 at 6:51amI know it's a time-honored tradition, but these aren't very good. They aren't recognizable as the people.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#4Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/7/13 at 6:53am
Cyndi Lauper's looks more like this '80s photo of Donna Mills.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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yankeefan7
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/12
#5Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/7/13 at 7:04amblaxx - Funny I thought the same thing. That is sad because they used to be very good.
yankeefan7
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/12
#6Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/7/13 at 7:05ambestbars - Since Donna Mills was absolutely gorgeous back then guess it is not a bad thing - just teasing.
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#7Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/7/13 at 8:40amYeah, they're not really caricatures anymore. Not sure how the current artist got the job in the first place, but IMO it's time for someone new.
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egghumor
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/9/11
#8Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/7/13 at 9:06amLet's just flat-out say it: Sardi's caricatures are TERRIBLE! I've never seen one that wasn't a supreme disappointment, or worse.
GilmoreGirlO2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/05
#9Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/7/13 at 9:09am
Norm Lewis' is, for me, one of the worst offenders (I do love what he wrote on there, though!):
http://www.playbill.com/multimedia/gallery/3991/The-Gershwins-Porgy-and-Bess-Star-Norm-Lewis-Honored-With-Sardis-Caricature
#10Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/7/13 at 9:32amThat Norm Lewis looks more like Mit Romney.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#11Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/7/13 at 10:08amNorm's is insulting. I can't believe he let them display it.
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#12Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/7/13 at 10:13am
I was thinking the same thing yesterday (though I couldn't quite get to Donna Mills--you nailed it, besty).
#13Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/7/13 at 10:14am
And in the photos of Cyndi, you can see really GOOD ones on the wall behind her.
But I think it's sweet they gave Hugh Jackman a picture of Robert Pattinson as a souvernir of his visit.
#14Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/7/13 at 1:58pm
Jackman looks like Douglas playing Liberace.
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John Adams
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/13
#15Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/7/13 at 2:13pm
blaxx,I thought the EXACT same thing and was going to create a thread yesterday.
I started making a collage of "the worst of the worst" caricatures that included the three posted here. It was going to be a Where's Waldo type of thing, where you're supposed to spot the Sardi's caricatures amidst a sea of illustrations from Butterick dress patterns...
#16Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/7/13 at 2:29pm
There are plenty of talented artists out there who could do much better and would LOVE the opportunity to have their work hanging at Sardi's.
I've seen better portraits done by pushcart sketchers at theme parks.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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PattyO'Furniture
Featured Actor Joined: 8/12/04
#17Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/7/13 at 4:25pmThank you for this thread! I was thinking the same thing yesterday about Cyndi's. Norm's is awful. Tom Hanks' is awful, as well. Who's responsible for selecting the artist?
John Adams
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/13
#18Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/7/13 at 5:21pm
>> Who's responsible for selecting the artist?
If it were up to Bette Midler, Sardi's caricature artist Richard Baratz would not have a job.
#19Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/7/13 at 10:16pm
They seem to be going off the deep end not to offend. It's true, they aren't really caricatures any more- bland, bland, bland!
(My favorite one has always been Judith Anderson's. Evidently, she HATED it.)
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
#20Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/7/13 at 11:30pmIt's funny that the test was to sketch Midler-she hated it and they hired him. Sounds like a brainiac runs Sardi's. Those drawings are terrible.
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#21Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/8/13 at 12:06amThe strange thing is if this guy has been there since the mid-70s it means he has done some of the ones that I love, like Liza's, which I remember so vividly from the scene in The Muppets Take Manhattan when Kermit replaces her caricature with his, only to have her walk in and be worried that she had been replaced by a frog.
mamaleh
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#22Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/8/13 at 12:53amActually, I always thought Hugh's caricature looked more like Luke Perry.
dexter3
Featured Actor Joined: 9/13/08
#23Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/8/13 at 1:09am
This artist MUST be working for free.
These drawings are embarrassing.
What the heck is Sardi's thinking?!?!?! This guy must be stopped!
#24Sardi's Caricatures
Posted: 6/8/13 at 2:42am
I agree with everyone else that Mr. Baratz's images have been dire. They are successful neither as caricatures nor as portraits. As caricature, they lack any sense of exaggeration, of satire, or of humor and as portraiture, they frequently don't even resemble their subjects.
I notice he gives everyone this certain ruddy glow, almost to the point of being red (scroll through the pictures posted above). Even Norm Lewis. I remember when the wonderfully talented Mr. Lewis was black.
