Download Musicals in the 1960`s Broadway

Broadway theatre, commonly known as Broadway, refers
to the theatrical performances presented in the 40
professional theatres. Along with London's West End
theatres, Broadway theatres are widely considered to
represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the
English-speaking world.
After the great depression Broadway hit a golden
age of blockbuster hits, Oklahoma!, in 1941 but in
the 1960s and 1970s saw a worsening of the area
like Times Square and numbers began to drop of
legitimate shows produced on Broadway
Most theatre productions made around the 1960s
had a political message around it like Cabaret,
Sound of Music, West side story, Oliver, Fiddler
on the roof and etc.… which did change the way An Off-Broadway theatre is a professional venue in New York City
with a seating capacity between 100 and 499. These theatres are
of how a few Americans did think
smaller than Broadway theatres.
An "Off-Broadway production" is a production of a play, musical
or revue.
The play was put on Broadway in 1966. The play
was based on John Van Druten's 1951 play I Am a
Camera, which was adapted from the short novel
Goodbye to Berlin
The play was about 1931 Berlin as the Nazis are rising to
power, it is based in nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub,
and revolves around the 19-year-old English cabaret
performer Sally Bowles and her relationship with the
young American writer Cliff Bradshaw.
The play showed how Germany was like when Nazis
were rising to power. It shows you how the war is
still having an impact on Americans in 60s because
they were loads of plays that were also made
around the was like Fiddler on the roof and Oliver
Twist. The production became a hit, inspiring many
following productions in London and New York,
This poster has a small image of the play
compared to our Sweet Charity poster that
uses the characters to sell the play with
Cabaret they sell the actor that will be
starring in the play more than the actual
play it’s self. This poster we did take its
Idea on how the colours do need to stand
out.
Oliver Twist is sold to a Dunstable undertaker after
asking for more dinner at the orphanage. Escaping to
London he is taken in by Fagin to join his gang of child
pickpockets. Wrongly accused of a theft he meets a more
kindly gentleman who takes him in, to the concern of
one of Fagin's old pupils, the violent Bill Sykes. In the
middle is Nancy, Sykes' girl whom Oliver has come to
trust.
Oliver! is an English musical, with music and lyrics by
Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the novel Oliver
Twist by Charles Dickens, set in the 1830s.
It premiered in the West End in 1960, enjoying a long
run, and successful long runs on Broadway, tours and
revivals, after being brought to the US by producer David
Merrick in 1963. It was made into a musical film in 1968
This showed that the British were having an impact on
America at the time, it was one of the first British musicals to
be shown on Broadway at the time. This showed that the
British invasion was changing America slowly
We got Ideas from this poster because you
can see that it sells the character and the
colours help make the poster abstract,
which we wanted for our sweet charity
poster the only problem with this poster for
us was that it didn’t have the 60s them to
it but we used the Idea with the image
being the bigger part of the poster
Fiddler on the Roof," a musical about a small Russian
Jewish village, opens and is a huge hit. Came on
Broadway in 1964
Had the first musical theatre run in history to beat 3,000
performances. Fiddler held the record for the longestrunning Broadway musical for almost 10 years until
Grease beat its run.
It remains Broadway's sixteenth longest-running show in
history. The production was very profitable and highly
praised. It won nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical,
score, book, direction and choreography.
It produced five Broadway revivals and a highly
successful 1971 film adaptation, and the show has
enjoyed enduring international popularity. It is also a
very popular choice for school and community
productions
This poster has the same look as our
poster when it comes to the format
they had, with the information of the
play they got it coming out of the
poster which is were we got the Idea
for our poster for sweet charity
Looking at loads of different posters and researching
about different plays, This helps me with my
production role and how I can improve my posters
better. Looking at different posters you can see that
they all use really abstract colours or odd colours like
in the Oliver! poster and Fiddler on the Roof, They
also did fit a lot of information about like the actor,
the music, venue and etc.… it helps me with the
type of information I should put on the posters but it
also shows me how time has changed and how styles
for poster are much different to what they where in
the 1960s like Fiddler on the roof, Sweet Charity and
etc..
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With are own poster of sweet charity you can see that it
follows a things that other posters have done in the
1960’s:
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Bright colours
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Abstract lines
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Clear title
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where it’s being performed
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Clear picture of what the play is about
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Our poster does innovated a bit because we are trying
to meet a target audience of this time of era. The
poster shows us that the play is from the 60’s which is
what we were going for because of the colours and the
art work that was also made in that time. Looking at
different posters for the 60’s you can tell that a poster
does not look that different from it, the other posters
are just little bit more simple than our one and the
sizing of looks a bit smaller compared to our poster