I think the Barbra Streisand CD went for $600, but it's still crazy pricing. And it wasn't like it was signed in a special way or anything. It was just a regular signed CD.
$9000 for the Elphaba broom must have been the highest price for the silent auction part. A lot of the auction prices were awfully high; I think people were getting caught up in the moment. Someone paid $2020 for a signed Boy from Oz poster. Someone else paid $3000 for a signed Smash pilot script. Jennifer Cody, who is usually a great MC for the silent auction, made it a little too obvious that she thought that a Smash script doesn't deserve that kind of price, which I thought was not a great way to get high bids.
I wish that the younger auctioneer would stop identifying bidders entering the auction as "new money"; it sounds kind of crass to me.
I noticed in general that the musical phrases signed by the composer didn't generally go for nearly as much as in the past. Usually they're at least $700 or so, but a couple went for less than $300.
"What was the name of that cheese that I like?"
"you can't run away forever...but there's nothing wrong with getting a good head start"
"well I hope and I pray, that maybe someday, you'll walk in the room with my heart"
Does anyone know how much the Cassie costume went for?
"I've always secretly longed for an actress to get to the top of the cherry picker and projectile vomit all over the guards below."- Wonderwaiter in the "Defy Gravity?" thread.
~~~~~~~~My dream? Sutton Foster as Cassie in A Chorus Line