David Edward Byrd, an artist whose swirling, psychedelic, instantly entrancing illustrations gave the rock mecca Fillmore ...

The poster focuses on a crumbling, brilliantly colored Art Deco bust of a showgirl ... to his office near the Winter Garden Theatre where Follies was in previews. As Byrd told Playbill, ...

So I did that and there was my giant Follies on the marquee of the Winter Garden ... clown imagery of the musical but might just as easily be a drop of blood. In the 1980s, Byrd worked as Art Director ...

In teh 1970s, he designed the iconic posters for notable stage musicals including Follies, Godspell ... The Psychedelic Art & Technicolor Life of David Edward Byrd, written with co-author ...