THIS IS OUR YOUTH Marquee

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jnb9872
#1THIS IS OUR YOUTH Marquee
Posted: 8/1/14 at 5:59pm

Ok, so I'll cop to a fascination with graphic design when it comes to branding and marquees, and this looks pretty awesome. Has anyone gone by and seen it? I can't tell from the pictures: did they actually just duct tape their stuff over the INISHMAAN signage? I'll have to swing by the Cort sometime soon to check it out myself, but I really love this.
Up on the Marquee: THIS IS OUR YOUTH


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Islander_fan
#2THIS IS OUR YOUTH Marquee
Posted: 8/1/14 at 6:26pm

I was asking myself the same thing. I can't tell if they in fact just used duct tape, or if it was put up in such a way that it creates the illusion of being duct taped.

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#2THIS IS OUR YOUTH Marquee
Posted: 8/1/14 at 6:36pm

I love it! It does look genuinely duct taped.


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#3THIS IS OUR YOUTH Marquee
Posted: 8/1/14 at 6:46pm

I think it is literally duct taped. You can clearly see "Martin McDonough" and other parts of the Inishmaan marquee underneath. It looks really cool though!


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#4THIS IS OUR YOUTH Marquee
Posted: 8/1/14 at 6:53pm

I actually walked by and touched it and it's fake. But it is cripples design under the marquee, doors and display boxes

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#5THIS IS OUR YOUTH Marquee
Posted: 8/1/14 at 7:06pm

Too bad it's secretly fake, but either way it looks pretty genuine and gets the idea across. What an unusual but wonderful concept for a marquee design!


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#6THIS IS OUR YOUTH Marquee
Posted: 8/1/14 at 8:06pm

There is no way they would have actually duct taped it. They'd have to continually pay union workers to go up and fix it every time the tape adhesion was weathered off.

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#7THIS IS OUR YOUTH Marquee
Posted: 8/1/14 at 8:31pm

I imagined the actual marquee itself was a well-done simulation, but was hoping against hope that the window cards and posters over the doors were practically done.


Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

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macnyc
#8THIS IS OUR YOUTH Marquee
Posted: 8/1/14 at 8:48pm

Hilarious! I wonder if they have to pay the Inishmaan production for using its material, even partially.

iluvtheatertrash
#9THIS IS OUR YOUTH Marquee
Posted: 8/1/14 at 9:20pm

Such a clever little piece of marketing that I actually want to see it now!


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rjm516
#10THIS IS OUR YOUTH Marquee
Posted: 8/1/14 at 9:24pm

I love it!

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RippedMan
#11THIS IS OUR YOUTH Marquee
Posted: 8/1/14 at 10:36pm

Love it. Gives me high hopes for the production.

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#12THIS IS OUR YOUTH Marquee
Posted: 8/2/14 at 5:30pm

As I recall Dirty Rotten Scoundrels did something similar when Jonathan Pryce replaced John Lithgow, they "duct taped" Pryce's headshot over Lithgow's face on the front of house images.


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#13THIS IS OUR YOUTH Marquee
Posted: 8/2/14 at 6:05pm

They could never actually tape the marquee up in case it fell off, in which case people would believe the show to be THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN instead of THIS IS OUR YOUTH, but it's still clever.


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#14THIS IS OUR YOUTH Marquee
Posted: 8/2/14 at 6:12pm

I think it's wonderful. And it captures the feel of the show perfectly.


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