do you keep
do you keep
renthead2005z
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/2/05
#0do you keep
Posted: 1/11/05 at 10:52pmYour Playbills you get? Even if you don't get them signed? I grab extra...haha i guess i go a little crazy.
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#1re: do you keep
Posted: 1/11/05 at 10:54pmAlways. But I think it's partly because I am a MAJOR packrat
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#2re: do you keep
Posted: 1/11/05 at 10:54pmof course, it's how i remember each and every show. plus, i'm not a 'stagedoor' person
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#3re: do you keep
Posted: 1/11/05 at 10:57pm
I always grab more and get strange looks from people.
But if someone gives me too strange a look, I just ask them if they would like one of them.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
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Updated On: 1/11/05 at 10:57 PM
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#4re: do you keep
Posted: 1/11/05 at 10:57pmAlways, its to make up for not keeping the Playbill to my first Broadway show
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#5re: do you keep
Posted: 1/11/05 at 10:58pmThe only Playbill I didn't keep was the one for Rent, and that was an accident. I, too, am a packrat. Updated On: 1/11/05 at 10:58 PM
BEKA531
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#6re: do you keep
Posted: 1/11/05 at 11:00pmalways. and i often take extras when i see a pile, or the extras that people leave in seats as i'm walking out.
#7re: do you keep
Posted: 1/11/05 at 11:03pm
Always, now that I realized how much I love theatre. I don't have any from when I was very young, unfortunately. I always grab extras on the way out, too. 
#8re: do you keep
Posted: 1/11/05 at 11:05pmAbsolutely! I have the playbill binders and playbill protecters, and I've even framed a few of them. I have almost every playbill since 2000. Before that, I have most of them.
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
sweetiedarlinmia
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/8/04
#9re: do you keep
Posted: 1/11/05 at 11:06pmalways, and I grab an extra one for my mother since she doesnt get to see all the shows with me.
BEKA531
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#10re: do you keep
Posted: 1/11/05 at 11:09pm
yeah, i started when i was like 12. i don't have any of the old lion king or beauty and the beast, but i wish i did.
my grandma is MAJORLY into theatre. she sees a show about every weekend in the summertime for YEARS. and she saves every single playbill. she has one from almost every show since the 60's. i go through them sometimes, they're amazing.
gettinhep
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/9/04
#11re: do you keep
Posted: 1/11/05 at 11:11pm
Yes. Playbills are fine, tangible reminders of evenings at the theatre - both wonderful and terrible.
I keep mine in a large box where they won't be crushed.
'Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.' - Lucy Van Pelt
#12re: do you keep
Posted: 1/11/05 at 11:19pmI keep mine as well. Sometimes I do get them framed.
"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
Feodor Sverdlov
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/21/04
#13re: do you keep
Posted: 1/11/05 at 11:26pmI never keep them. When I think of the shows I've seen...I try not to think about it. I never keep anything. I'm the complete opposite of a pack-rat!
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CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#14re: do you keep
Posted: 1/11/05 at 11:59pmI have all the playbills from the shows I've seen in the past 10 years (which amounts to a LOT of playbills!). I have some framed ones that I've had signed (hairspray, nine, chicago and so forth) and those are hanging on my walls. Any playbills preceeding the past 10 years were unfortunately tossed by my parents long ago.
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#15re: do you keep
Posted: 1/12/05 at 12:04amYes, I do keep all my playbills. The only one I dont have was from Joseph and the... All my playbills are in a cabinet next to my bed. I really wanna frame my Wicked one (that I got signed by Laura Bell Bundy and Sean McCourt) and my All Shook Up one (that i got signed by Leah Hocking, Cheyenne Jackson, Jonathan Hardary, and ALix Korey).
"Chicago is it's own incredible theater town right there smack down in the middle of the heartland. What a great city! I can see why Oprah likes to live there!" - Dee Hoty :-D
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#16re: do you keep
Posted: 1/12/05 at 12:06amI have most of them, I'm only missing a couple. Plum, I did the same thing as you, I lost my Rent playbill (actually my mom threw it away by accident). I'm really disappointed that I'm missing that one.
Alix7272
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/04
#17re: do you keep
Posted: 1/12/05 at 12:06ami happily keep mine. i have from my first show - beauty and the beast and almost every show since. but they're sitting squished in a bookcase which probably isn't very good
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#18re: do you keep
Posted: 1/12/05 at 7:49am
I always did, and I had older ones in a box in the basement. Unfortunately the basement flooded this summer and ruined them along with my high school year book 
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