So im wondering among those of BWW do you just collect the playbills from shows you see or firends see and give to you or do you go out of your way to get them from all the shows you like or opening night ones etc. Just curious.
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OK, I had to read that run-on like 3 times. But to answer what I think you were asking, I usually only keep the ones I get myself at those shows. Occasionally friends send them to me if it's a show I'm sure I won't have a remote chance of seeing.
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I generally only like to have ones from shows I saw. I like to have it as a memento of my experience. I did buy an original cast Rent playbill, because I didn't see it for the first time until about '98. Once in a while I'll buy an opening night playbill for a show I love. I also bought the Tony playbill this year.
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I'm a horder, so I need to impose limits on myself. Therefore I only have Playbills from shows I see. If I opened myself up to having Playbills for any show for any reason, then I would spend too much of my life and money on eBay seeing what they have and making sure I get them ALL. And that would be bad. XP
Same as Steve, I always put the ticket on the first page of the playbill that's about the show (don't know if this has a specific name, but the one with the logo and the cast and creative). I'm OCD like that. it's also why I've stopped printing my tickets at home and get them mailed, they look nicer!
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Re: "Opening Night Playbills" -- that whole Playbill.com selling the special ones with the "Opening Night" stickers on the cover -- it's a scam. Playbills from Opening Nights look just like Playbills from any other performance. I've been to plenty of Opening Nights, and there is never a special sticker on the front that says "Opening Night." Sorry to break the news to those of you who have spent $15.00 + tax + shipping per Playbill for those stickers.
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"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
yeah, when i'm rich, i'm planning on doing the same thing with all my playbills (i've seen over 60 broadway shows, plus tours, so that would cost a lot and i'm broke...)...but for now, i have the ultimate playbill binder to store them all safely haha
i am still unfortunately missing a couple of playbills from back in the day when i was young and didn't save them, but thankfully ebay has been helping me out
i only like to hang onto playbills from shows that i've seen, but my mom keeps the ones from rare shows that she sees without me, so we always have an extra copy...but those don't go in my special binder (but usually i end up seeing the show with someone else anyway)
I just started collected them, so I have like 8 in my collection. I get them from shows I see myself not from my friends. I can't wit to collect more- a LOT more.
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I keep them from the shows I've seen (except Talk Radio which I only went to as a favor to a friend to get Stephanie March's autograph for her girlfriend...that one got sent the next day). Some are in frames, others are awaiting. And yes, I keep one from each time I see a show.
The only one I have that I haven't seen the show yet is Curtains. I was hanging with luckydave and another friend (forget her name on here) for Elephant Project stuff and grabbed one that was sitting all lonely on the box office window ledge. It's signed, because I was there. And I DO intend to see the show. :)
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I started bringing them home w/me after seeing a show w/mom and dad when I was 10 yo. (1963) In high school got a union ushering job on Bway p/t during the summer and still have that 2nd job today, 35 years later. I used to be obsessive re: duplicate, triplicates, etc. Not any more. 98% of my 1,000+ playbills are from shows I've seen. Now I add "old" ones(1800s-1959 at street fairs, bway street fairs, apt. sales., etc.) It's amazing what you can find easily. I applaud all of you that are young and collectors. It's the only thing I've collected and refuse to give up, even w/lack of space! They're fun to whip out 20yrs. later and read !!
Foster: You are correct in saying that actual opening night playbills do not come with the sticker; however, if you check the title page, an opening night playbill will blatantly state "Opening Night: (The Date of Opening)". This is also true with the ones you can buy from Playbill, so it is a somewhat unique piece of memorabilia.
I normally just keep the ones from the shows I see.
But just this year I went to a flea market, and there were bunches of really old playbills, some from way before I was born. I couldn't resist so I bought some.
To name a few:
The Star Spangled Girl Minnie's Boys More Stately Mansions Hair Jesus Christ Superstar Once More, With Feeling Tribute Sugar Babies with Mickey Rooney Harvey from I think 1945...that's when a picture was Copywrited Where's Charley? - St. James Theatre - late 1940s Annie Get Your Gun with Ethel Merman Cabaret - 1969 The Glass Menagerie
I had saved all my Playbills since my very first show. When I moved from NYC to DC it was then I threw out most of them. I kept ones for the 1988 revival of "Our Town" which featured Helen Hunt and Don Ameche, and also kept the ones if a friend of mine was in the show.
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Same here. I've saved up all of my Playbills. Mostly for reading, some for autographs and for adding to my collection from attending at each of the future Jersey Boys National Tour stops.
Also, I've kept my Producers and Spamalot playbills because they were exceptional plays as well.