My Broadway Parody Posters
We all needed some light relief. 🎭 😷 While in quarantine / isolation since Christmas in 2019 in Shanghai, I’ve been teaching myself Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop (just by trial and error) and I’ve re-imagined and parodied over 100 iconic posters of many Broadway shows since February 2020. It’s been a great way to rekindle remote friendships, and for others to copy/create their own Broadway parodies.
I hope you enjoy them…
Broadway Parody May 2020
Musical Parody April 2020
Theatre Parody March 2020
Broadway Poster Parody February 2020
My Broadway Parodies include:
- A Quarantine at Home (parody of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS)
- A Little Night Mucus (parody of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC)
- A Covid Line (parody of A CHORUS LINE)
- American Covidiot (parody of AMERICAN IDIOT)
- An Insane Thing Is Happening Every Day at the White House (parody of A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM)
- AnyDayOus (parody of AMADEUS)
- Anyone Get Your Gin (parody of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN)
- Assassin (parody of ASSASSINS)
- Bats (parody of CATS)
- Belly (parody of BUDDY)
- Betrayal (parody of BETRAYAL)
- The Blame Game (parody of THE GIN GAME)
- The Book of Moron (parody of The BOOK OF MORMON)
- Bored Brothers (parody of BLOOD BROTHERS)
- Brigadoom (parody of BRIGADOON)
- Bye Bye Virus (parody of BYE BYE BIRDIE)
- Can Can Choose (parody of MOULIN ROUGE)
- Can’t Pay the Rent (parody of RENT)
- Can’t Come Away (parody of COME FROM AWAY)
- Cease (parody of GREASE)
- The Conspirator’s Guide to Covidiot Stupidity (parody of A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE & MURDER)
- Coughalot (parody of SPAMALOT)
- Coughspell (parody of GODSPELL)
- COVID (parody of WICKED)
- Damn Hankies (parody of DAMN YANKEES)
- Damn Yankees (Trump parody of DAMN YANKEES)
- Defiance of Life (parody of TRIUMPH OF LOVE)
- Dirty Rotten Fingers (parody of DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS)
- Divorce of a Salesman (parody of DEATH OF A SALESMAN)
- Don’t Visit (parody of THE VISIT)
- Don’t Catch Me Even If You Can (parody of CATCH ME IF YOU CAN)
- Empty Sunset Boulevard (parody of SUNSET BOULEVARD)
- FAJITA (parody of EVITA)
- SHAME (parody of FAME)
- Grannie (parody of ANNIE)
- Haircut (parody of HAIR)
- Heckle & Lied (parody of JEKYLL & HYDE)
- Hell, Dolly! (parody of HELLO, DOLLY!)
- High School Mayhem (parody of HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL)
- Holiday Off (parody of HOLIDAY INN)
- How to Succeed at Anything Without Leaving Home (parody of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOT REALLY TRYING)
- I Save My Own Life (parody of I AM MY OWN WIFE)
- I Want A Haircut (parody of HAIRSPRAY)
- I Will Rock Me (parody of WE WILL ROCK YOU)
- Impatience (parody of ALLEGIANCE)
- Into The Wards (parody of INTO THE WOODS)
- Jesus Christ Stayhome (parody of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR)
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Facemask (parody of JOSEPH & THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT)
- King Fear (parody of KING LEAR)
- Leading Women (parody of LITTLE WOMEN)
- Les Incompetents (parody of LES MISERABLES)
- The Little Germaid (parody of THE LITTLE MERMAID)
- Little Shop of Hoarders (parody of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS)
- LiverChance (parody of RIVERDANCE)
- Long Days Journey At Home (parody of LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT)
- The Lying King (parody of THE LION KING)
- Man Who Didn’t Come to Dinner (parody of THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER)
- Mary Poopins (parody of MARY POPPINS)
- The MaskTrap (parody of THE MOUSETRAP)
- The Most Unhappy Fella (parody of THE MOST HAPPY FELLA)
- The Mucus Man (parody of THE MUSIC MAN)
- My Fair Malady (parody of MY FAIR LADY)
- No Boat (parody of SHOW BOAT)
- No Company (parody of COMPANY)
- O’CORONA! (parody of OKLAHOMA)
- Off The Town (parody of IN THE TOWN)
- One Flu Over The Cuckoos Nest (parody of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOOS NEST)
- Pajama Fame (parody of THE PAJAMA GAME)
- President Dolittle (parody of DOCTOR DOLITTLE)
- Priscilla, Queen of the Deserted (parody of PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT)
- Prisoner is a Goof (parody of THE FIDDLER ON THE ROOF)
- The Queen and I (parody of THE KING AND I)
- Racisim (parody of RAGTIME)
- The Roar of the President, The Fear of the World (parody of THE ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT, THE SMELL OF THE CROWD)
- SHAME (parody of MAME)
- SHAME (revival) (parody of MAME)
- Siesta (parody of AIDA)
- Sippin & Trippin (parody of PIPPIN)
- Sneezy Todd, The Infected Fool on Your Street (parody of SWEENEY TODD, THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET)
- The Snotty Shocker Show (parody of THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW)
- The Sound of Money Lost (parody of THE SOUND OF MUSIC)
- Spic n’ Span (parody of PETER PAN)
- Stay Home (parody of FUN HOME)
- Stayin In (parody of MOVIN’ OUT)
- The Stir Fry Whirl (parody of THE GOODBYE GIRL)
- STOP (parody of STOMP)
- Sweaty Night Fever (parody of SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER)
- They’re Plaguing Our Song (parody of THEY’RE PLAYING OUR SONG)
- This Dragon (parody of MISS SAIGON)
- Trojan (parody of FROZEN)
- Trumpanic (parody of TITANIC)
- Two Gentlemen with Corona (parody of TWO GENTLEMEN FROM VERONA)
- All Unite Express (parody of STARLIGHT EXPRESS)
- Virus/Victorius (parody of VICTOR/VICTORIA)
- Witty Ditty Clang Clang (parody of CHITTY CHITTY, BANG BANG)
- Zoom (parody of ZORRO)
- 2020 (parody of 1776)
Many have asked my process…
- Think of a suitable subject for this special time;
- Find the best original source material (either scanning what I have or searching);
- Use the original Broadway windowcard or poster as a positioning and color template;
- Recreate the base original theatre art in as many separate layers of Photoshop as possible;
- Avoid using more than 20% of the original Broadway poster, ideally none;
- Use font matching app on smartphone to try and find similar fonts;
- Once the original Broadway windowcard is re-created and formed, copy the layers and commence editing;
- Respect the original brand and artists work;
- Manipulate the newly created theatre art to form my Broadway parody vision;
- Try and match the color, positioning and general aesthetic;
- Use my face wherever possible;
- Edit the title font to parody desires;
- Positioning and layout size for Broadway Parody Window Card;
- Add parody or funny billing credits;
- Add the layers of theatre name, buying choices etc…;
- Compare general aesthetic to original side by side;
- Final color correct;
- Write a short descriptor;
- Save and publish.