It would be nice if they were also doing it for national tours. I'll be seeing Joseph in June and the rainbow colors would certainly look great on that cover, but it's cool that New York audiences at least will get them.
Why would you need to? What's wrong with having the rainbow versions since those will be more special and specific to the time you are seeing those shows?!?
Maybe just tell the theater staff that you don't support the homosexual lifestyle, so you would prefer one with a yellow banner? They may have some on hand for emergencies like that.
Sure they'll be rarer, but it's more of a uniform thing to fit with the collection. One "somehow" to obtain them would of course be eBay, but that costs money. Another is indeed asking the theater the next month, and not because of that snarky reason.
If uniform is what you truly want, why not just keep 50 copies of the same Playbill you like the most and toss all those others with different words and pictures on the cover.
This is a bit off topic, but this makes me wonder about the issue of Playbill distributed at theatres.
For example, for this month, are they distributing the March 31 issue or the issue that will become the April 30 issue?
I have a Playbill subscription in the mail, but when I receive it, it is dated for the last day of the previous month. For example, the issue I received a few weeks ago was the March 31 issue. So is it the issue that was distributed in March or the issue that is being distributed for the month of April? I hope this makes sense.
Last year, the Tony program was not printed by Playbill, so assuming it's the same company again this year, I highly doubt it'd come with the rainbow Playbill banner.
I guess that means some regional/touring theaters that don't use Playbill anymore will be out of luck. SF Best of Broadway recently changed from using Playbill as their official program distributor. They now print their playbills in-house. I wonder if other touring theaters do that?