The Postered Walls

3 Sondheim posters and the language of rupture

A crack through a showgirl’s face. Blood on a barber’s blade. Bodies torn in half, a century ripped open.

The original posters for Follies, Sweeney Todd, and Sunday in the Park with George share a visual language: rupture. Each establishes a relationship to damage, danger, and attention before the curtain rises. Let’s look closely at how each poster mak…