New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
jacobsnchz14
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#1New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Posted: 9/3/12 at 6:06pm
I like this one as well as the other one that has been used. This is from the Boneau/Bryan-Brown official site.
Here is the other one if you have not seen it...
#2New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Posted: 9/3/12 at 6:26pm
I actually really like it. 
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#3New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Posted: 9/3/12 at 6:31pmEncouragingly unembarrassing.
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#5New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Posted: 9/3/12 at 8:16pmI wonder if Roundabout will consider an extended run if Drood is a hit either staying at Studio 54 or transferring to the Stephen Sondheim,
#6New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Posted: 9/3/12 at 8:27pmGod I wish I could see this.
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#7New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Posted: 9/3/12 at 9:02pmLove it!
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JakePinckes
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#8New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Posted: 9/3/12 at 9:07pmLike this artwork soooo much better than that awful brown color in the original
#9New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Posted: 9/3/12 at 9:09pmSo much more fitting for the show, I hope Louizos’ set is similar to the design?
showchoirguy
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#10New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Posted: 9/3/12 at 9:32pmI cannot wait for this show.
#12New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Posted: 9/3/12 at 10:41pmI love the curtain! Are we sure this is the one they're going with?
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#13New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Posted: 9/4/12 at 12:30amThis one has above-the-title credits listed, so I would imagine this is the one they are using. Is there a larger version of this out there? Looks great.
#14New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Posted: 9/4/12 at 12:37am
I hope Louizos’ set is similar to the design?
I hope so! On a side note, I am so sad that she took her website down 
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henrikegerman
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#15New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Posted: 9/4/12 at 9:09amNice, evocative, retro, good use of color.
#16New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Posted: 9/4/12 at 9:21am
The new poster is better, but still a bit too slick for my taste. The original is grungy vintage simplicity, and looks more like a period piece ... or perhaps "barebones Baz Luhrmann" if there is such a thing.
At least the new one evokes a Music Hall entrainment, which tells you a little something about the show. I just wish it didn't have the plastic shininess. A bit too Disney for me.
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#17New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Posted: 9/4/12 at 9:46am
I don't dislike, but I don't love it.
And that's weird because I can't figure out why. It looks good, the curtain conceit is perfect....there's nothing about it I don't like.
Maybe it's because I love the original artwork so much.
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#18New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Posted: 9/4/12 at 9:50am
Unless they're updating the show to take place in the 30s, it's the wrong period. The original production, as written, was set in the late 19th century and the first design captured that look. The new one, while attractive, is as Besty described "too slick" and just not in keeping with the show's setting.
Unless, as I mentioned, they're updating it.
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#19New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Posted: 9/4/12 at 10:06am
I think the reflections of light in the new logo make it seem like the curtain is made of plastic, like a shower curtain, rather than made of fabric. The contrast is too much. As best12bars and D2 said, it doesn't evoke the period.
I also wish that they had kept the old typefaces and put them on the curtain.
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jacobsnchz14
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#20New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Posted: 9/5/12 at 3:36pm
Roundabout has updated the DROOD page of their site with a banner of the new artwork:
http://www.roundabouttheatre.org/Shows-Events/The-Mystery-of-Edwin-Drood.aspx
Updated On: 9/5/12 at 03:36 PM
#21New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Posted: 9/5/12 at 4:27pmI'm happy! Does anyone know if the period of the show is being updated, as a previous poster asked? The new artwork does seem to suggest a more recent decade than pre- 1900.
#22New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Posted: 9/5/12 at 4:30pm
^It looks a little 1920s doesn't it?
#23New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Posted: 9/5/12 at 4:31pm
I don't know, but I can't imagine why they would update it or change the period. The Music Hall era is what it is. I'm not sure how much updating could be done.
Btw, if this was a shower curtain I would totally buy it.
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#24New Artwork for Roundabout's MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Posted: 9/5/12 at 4:39pmIt's really only the font choice for "Edwin Drood" that seems a bit anachronistic.
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