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re: Check out the logo for February's Parade concert

Posted by: Chromolume 08:50 pm EDT 08/16/14
In reply to: re: Check out the logo for February's Parade concert - davei2000 11:22 am EDT 08/16/14

Besides, I don't believe anyone hangs himself at the end of Parade.

And to go back to my other example, I assume no one was forcibly pushed out of the trade center towers the way they are in Urinetown. Yet I'm sure no one seeing the show in the months after that missed the (unintentional) parallel.

Yes, you're right that people deal with tragedies all the time. But are you really speaking for the family, that you know they are "dealing with it?" Just because they haven't spoken publicly very much doesn't mean they aren't still very much in grief.

And I wasn't really targeting Williams' family as much as I was that the news of the death affected many of us and is still fairly fresh in our minds. When a tragedy like this is national/world news, I think it's a slightly different story than "tragedies happen all the time."


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re: Check out the logo for February's Parade concert

Posted by: davei2000 11:04 pm EDT 08/16/14
In reply to: re: Check out the logo for February's Parade concert - Chromolume 08:50 pm EDT 08/16/14

"Dealing with it" means that it's their tragedy, not yours or mine. Sensitivity is owed to them, and I doubt they're looking at this ad campaign. I can't compare the upsetting death of one man to 9/11 and I neither require nor am owed protection from imagery that has no conceivable connection, but is certainly intended to evoke somber thoughts about a historical tragedy.


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re: Check out the logo for February's Parade concert

Posted by: Chromolume 11:33 pm EDT 08/16/14
In reply to: re: Check out the logo for February's Parade concert - davei2000 11:04 pm EDT 08/16/14

Just to clarify - as i said above, personally I'm fine with the logo. I just wonder if, given the news of this past week (and it's not often these days that hanging - either someone being hanged, or in this case, a suicide by hanging - tends to be in the news), some people might see that logo and find the timing unfortunate.

I'm not speaking for the family of the deceased, nor you and I. But I do have to think that if I were in charge of marketing the show, I might have wanted to replace that image with something that didn't tie in so specifically with a major news event. (Had this been a production of Assassins, and the logo were solely an image of a gun, based on the events going on in Ferguson as we speak, I might have thought the same of that choice - even though the image is obviously fitting for the show, and shootings happen all the time unfortunately.)

I'm really not trying to argue with you. I just feel that maybe the noose at this moment might not have been the most tactful choice. Just my gut feeling.


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