Lincoln Center Performing Arts Library & Museum
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DESIGN: FRAVER
DESIGN: FRAVER
Four Decades of Theatre Poster Art
Did
seeing that Dynamic-Poster for Sweeney Todd make you want to buy
tickets for that dynamic show?
How
about getting two-on-the-aisle for The
Lion King?
That
Powerful-Poster with the Black Lion-Head
& Bold Black Title on a rich
Desert-Yellow-Ground suggests the powers of that marvelous Musical on the
Broadway-Stage.
Now, on
the Plaza-Corridor gallery-walls of the Lincoln Center Library for the
Performing Arts, these colorful—even unforgettable—Show-Posters
march along the walls, in company with Follies,
Our Town, Forbidden Broadway, The
Adding Machine, Jekyll & Hyde,
& a host of other Show-Biz-Hits.
These
are all the ingenious inventions of FRAVER—FRAnk VERlizzo, to name names—who has
given many a show its Definitive-Image.
Who
would have thought to give Steve Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George a Poster that’s one part—the upper section—an extract from the famous Seurat-Painting,
showing a Top-Hatted Parisian-Gentleman
with a Black-Clad Lady with a Black-Umbrella…
As if
this had been ripped from a
Color-Print…
But below this image, walking
outside the frame, are a man’s legs—in blue-jeans & cowboy-boots—striding
alongside the sleekly black-stockinged & black-shoed legs of a
black-skirted woman?
Sheer, Sexy Genius!
If you are a Show-Poster-Collector, you should have all of these great Ticket-Purchase-Lures
on your own walls. Maybe you can get Fraver
to autograph them for you?
Glenn Loney