Replacing playbills
Replacing playbills
Nomusicalsforme
Chorus Member Joined: 11/14/15
#1Replacing playbills
Posted: 3/20/22 at 7:31am
My office is moving and saw fit to toss about a dozen playbills I had displayed. Most shows were current(since the re-opening). Any suggestions on the best way to replace them? Visiting all the theaters is not possible for me right now.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2Replacing playbills
Posted: 3/22/22 at 7:28am
You can write to to theater, and they'll send it to you as long as you provide a SASE.
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Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#3Replacing playbills
Posted: 6/4/22 at 10:03pm
After my lengthy hospitalization, the family decided that my house needed a good and deep cleaning, (the house had been shuttered tight with the heat on for 6 months) so a cleaning service was hired to make things spic and span for my return.
The cleaning ladies threw out about 2,000 of my Playbills--including all the ones from the recent DOLLY revival. They said they were full of bugs. I didn't believe them.
They can't be replaced.
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Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#4Replacing playbills
Posted: 6/18/22 at 12:46pm
Dollypop said: "After my lengthy hospitalization, the family decided that my house needed a good and deep cleaning, (the house had been shuttered tight with the heat on for 6 months) so a cleaning service was hired to make things spic and span for my return.
The cleaning ladies threw out about 2,000 of my Playbills--including all the ones from the recent DOLLY revival. They said they were full of bugs. I didn't believe them.
They can't be replaced."
I am sorry to hear that. I have saved all my playbills, although they are not all in one place. My wife periodically tells me I need to get rid of them -- I probably have more like 1,000, as I never saved the playbills from local theatres and touring productions. (Probably a little OCD...they are all types of sizes...it is easier to store playbills, as I think there have only been two sizes in my theatregoing life, more than 55 years).
In any event, a couple of times a year, I go through them, and pick out ones to look at. I am reminded of productions that I have forgotten, have discovered a huge number of performers that I have seen before they were famous, and have been frequently brought back to highlight moments from less revived shows, e.g., Charlie's Place in Over Here, You I Like from The Grand Tour, Maureen Stapleton coming on-stage in a Scarlett O'Hara gown in The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild, etc.
From your postings, I have no doubt that you have an incredible memory, but it is still a real shame. When I am gone, they can do whatever they want with them, but for now, they stay.
