Old Playbills and Stagebills
Old Playbills and Stagebills
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#0Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 10:39am
I found in a box:
West Side Story – Michael Todd Theatre, Chicago, 1962 starring Natalie Wood
Affairs of State - The Music Box, Broadway, 1951 starring June Havoc
Barefoot in the Park, Blackstone Theatre, Chicago, 1965 with Myrna Loy and Richard Benjamin directed by Mike Nichols
Man of La Mancha, Shubert Theatre, Chicago, 1969 starring Jose Ferrer
And, my favorite - Florence Henderson in The Sound of Music, 1961 at the Shubert in Chicago.
Anyone else have treasures such as these?
#1re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 10:45am
Oh my gosh, what a find! 
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
#2re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 10:48am
I bid on stuff like thta on Ebay. I happen to have 2 old ones.
Sweeney Todd - 1979 Uris Theatre - Cariou and Lansbury
Carnival - 1961 - Anna Maria Albergehtti, Jerry Orbach and Kaye Ballerd. (I forgot what theatre and since Im not home I cant check)
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#3re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 10:49am
There are a few more:
The Original London Chess with Murray Head, Elaine Paige.
Also A Flower Drum Song directed by Gene Kelly.
TB49 - The Sweeney is "priceless."
Updated On: 6/2/05 at 10:49 AM
#4re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 11:39am
Playfare-Cherry Lane Theatre...opening night of "Godspell"
Pippin circa 1974 with Northern J. Callaway, Betty Buckley and Pricilla Lopez
Original London Hair-Elaine Page, Paul Nicholas
Orig. London Godspell-Jeremy Irons, David Essex, Gay Soper, Julie Covington, Marti Webb
Camelot-Apollo Victoria, London with Richard Harris
Orig. London Me and My Girl w/ Robert Lindsay Emma Thompson
"Y'all have a GRAND day now"
alwy15
Stand-by Joined: 4/26/04
#5re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 11:43ami have the original playbill of every musical to win best musical at the tony awards, and then many of the classics like oklahoma, carousel, gypsy. but then the best are the flops i have. and my favorite one is carrie. mmmmmm
#6re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 12:03pmI have lots of fun ones from Ebay too. My favorite is a MINT condition Playbill from Rodgers & Hart's "I'd Rather Be Right" at the Alvin Theatre staring George M. Cohan from 1937. :)
#7re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 12:49pm
I have TONS of old playbills. I have the OBC of all of the following:
Bye Bye Birdie
Gypsy
The Music Man
West Side Story
Carousel
The Sound of Music
Brigadoon
It's a bird, it's plane, it's Superman!
Woman of the Year
Golden Boy
Cabaret
Annie Get Your Gun
etc. etc. etc.
Then I have a bunch from the 70's and 80's, and my most prized playbill is one from a Judy Garland show at the Palace.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#8re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 1:01pmNo. My oldest is a CATS one from the late '90s. Lol.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#9re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 1:02pm
Orig. Fiddler, Cabaret, Chicago.
Some more...don't feel like getting up.
Avigdor
Featured Actor Joined: 3/14/05
#10re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 2:06pmi'm looking for any by john mcmullan. specifically the time of the cuckoo at lincoln center and prides crossing..if anyone has them i can trade ? or buy?
#11re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 2:16pmI know its only 1996, but I was claning out a file cabinet in drama class a few weeks ago and found an original cast of Rent playbill. I asked my teacher about it, and she told me that the former head of the communications department had given it to her after her last trip to New York, before she passed away. I thought it was sweet
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#12re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 2:18pmOne question is whether Margo has seen all shows mentioned?
#13re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 3:08pmwow great finds! i wish that i could find old playbills and stagebills in a box somewhere lol.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#14re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 3:22pmYes, and I sat behind Mrs. Lincoln at "Our American Cousin"
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#15re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 3:26pmAnd how did she enjoy the show?
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#16re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 3:27pmI have an original Theatre Program from The Music Man, but I have so interesting Playbills.. Touring shows and some from Broadway.. My favorite is a Mandy Patinkin concert that was signed by him and Paul Ford.
Life is like a patio door, you never know which side is open... and then you run into the glass.... ~Connie and Carla
Oscar Jaffee
Stand-by Joined: 5/15/03
#17re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 9:24pmI am three shy of having the complete collection of "On the Twentieth Century" Playbills during its entire 13-month run. Probably means nothing to anybody else, but to me it's heaven!!!!!
BJC899
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/04
#18re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 9:42pmMy grandma sent me her playbills that she found from the OBC of My Fair Lady and Camelot. Awesome stuff.
#19re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 9:46pmI bought this at a BC/EFA event but I have an "Annie" playbill starring Sarah Jessica Parker as one of the orphans and it's signed.
#20re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 10:35pm
I have the Original Cast PLaybills of:
The Apple Tree
Chicago
Do I Hear a Waltz?
and Pippin
"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#21re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 10:40pmIn high school I was in Pippin and Apple Tree!!
kitkatgirl54
Leading Actor Joined: 5/19/04
#22re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 10:48pmi have a whole box that i bought at a flea market ... how much would you say playbills like these are worth ? (some are pretty old and with some pretty famous people).
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#23re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 10:52pmI have no clue. These that I have here given to me years ago. I did not see them for years, and now appreciate them. Ask one of these posters that buy them on e-bay, also tell us what you have!
#24re: Old Playbills and Stagebills
Posted: 6/2/05 at 10:52pm
Eh, the oldest one I have I think is of the original Miss Saigon (Broadway). I also have a Playbill of when Lea Salonga was in Les Miz somewhere...
~Steven
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