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Autographs--What Do You Do With Them After You Get Them?
#25re: Autographs--What Do You Do With Them After You Get Them?
Posted: 7/2/08 at 7:50am
How about everybody else?
What do you do with YOUR autographs?
colleen_lee
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/05
#26re: Autographs--What Do You Do With Them After You Get Them?
Posted: 7/2/08 at 7:57amPJ, you need to write a play about your stage door experiences. I am sure it would be EPIC!
DefyGravity777
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/28/08
#27re: Autographs--What Do You Do With Them After You Get Them?
Posted: 7/2/08 at 8:05am
I usually frame my signed Playbills. I look at them and try to figure out who the hecks signature is on them and when I can't I have to take them out of the frame so I can look inside at the cast list to see who actually signed it...LOL
The Wicked ones I have signed are usually easy to read but I have a Rent one with 5 signatures on it but I have no clue whos signature is whos. I know I met Anthony,Adam and Tamyra but nothing on there resembles those names in any way.
#28re: Autographs--What Do You Do With Them After You Get Them?
Posted: 7/2/08 at 8:16am
I have one of those safe deposit boxes at the bank where I keep all my autographed Playbills. A few times a month, I'll go and visit with them. Each time I go I'll take a few out, caress the autographs, look through them, and just relive the glorious day/night of that performance and stagedoor experience!
Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch.
Puppies are babies in fur coats.
Tinfoil...The Terrorizing Terminator
#29re: Autographs--What Do You Do With Them After You Get Them?
Posted: 7/2/08 at 8:16amI usually sign the program, smile and say "thank you" and move on, glad that they don't know what I'm really thinking.
#30re: Autographs--What Do You Do With Them After You Get Them?
Posted: 7/2/08 at 8:17amI have a small mailbox on my desk for stationary, so I just keep them in that, along with the tickets - I like to look back and see what row I was in, and how much I paid lol.
#31re: Autographs--What Do You Do With Them After You Get Them?
Posted: 7/2/08 at 8:20am
Oh, bdwaygirl, a safe-deposit box at the bank! That's sooooo smart!
That way you couldn't lose them or have your former-bff steal some of them--or if your house burned down or there was, like, one of those catastrophic floods or a nuclear attack, your autographs would be safe.
#32re: Autographs--What Do You Do With Them After You Get Them?
Posted: 7/2/08 at 8:20amSeveral are framed: Mary Martin, Chita Rivera, Gwen Verdon and Ann Reinking, the autographed books are kept separately (Bernadette, Harvey, Wendy Wasserstein), the Playbills are kept in binders (Madonna, John Lithgow, Mercedes Ruel, Avenue Q orig cast). The majority are on posters, including Cheyanne, Patti Lupone, Glenn Close, Jude Law, Kathleen Turner, and some are on pix with me-Leah Salonga, Jonathyn Pryce, Alice Ripley, Liz Larson. Bebe Newirth signed a beer bottle from Here Lies Jenny. Michael Rupert, Audra McDonald and Lea DeLaria signed CD's. I've amassed appx a hundred of them, and those who have passed on are the most special. I'd ALMOST sell my soul for an authentic Ethel Merman...but now that just wouldn't be worth it...would it?
#33re: Autographs--What Do You Do With Them After You Get Them?
Posted: 7/2/08 at 8:21amBut D2, you chatted with me a bit more than the others that one night. So I know we're BFF's. Right? RIGHT??!!
Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch.
Puppies are babies in fur coats.
Tinfoil...The Terrorizing Terminator
#34re: Autographs--What Do You Do With Them After You Get Them?
Posted: 7/2/08 at 8:22amYeah. Of course. Which one are you, again?
mikeyb16
Broadway Star Joined: 1/22/06
#35re: Autographs--What Do You Do With Them After You Get Them?
Posted: 7/2/08 at 8:33am
I put mine in poly pockets, place them in files and using a sticky label, I write the name of the actor and the date I received the photo.
I have so many autogrpahs (over 200 I think), I had to break them up and make 3 files. I have one for all actors who have been in WICKED, one for all actors who have been in the Disney Shows and another for Hollywood, Broadway, West End & Television and I'm still continuing to fill them all!
#36re: Autographs--What Do You Do With Them After You Get Them?
Posted: 7/2/08 at 10:10am
I wear them.
Well, sort of.
I don't really bother with autographs much now...except on my old leather jacket.
The night Hugh Panaro did his last show as The Phantom, I was not going to ask him for an autograph. I already had a couple of programs he'd signed...so there was no point in another. But he was there with a Silver Sharpie, signing for everyone else and he said something like, "What about you, Paula?" I didn't want to make him wait while I hunted for a Playbill. So, on an impulse, I said, "Oh, just sign my jacket!" He said, "Are you sure? I might ruin it!" I told him to go ahead...so he did and added "O.G." for Opera Ghost.
Six months later, when I saw him on the first night of "Lestat" previews at the Palace, I was wearing the jacket again. I told him, "Since you 'ruined' one sleeve, you might as well 'ruin' the other." So, he laughed and signed it as Lestat.
Well, it's now become a little "scrapbook" of the roles I see him in. When I went to visit in Seattle during "Company," he was just a bit obsessed with these amazing cookies there. We were sitting in the bakery before the show and he wrote on the back of my jacket, "Hope we figure out the Seattle cookie recipe <3 Hugh."
Most recently, he signed "A <3 Full of Love" right over the heart for Les Miz in Philly.
It's actually pretty funny when I'm standing in line at the store and total strangers are reading my jacket.
But the rest of my autographs...Playbills and so on...those are just stored in a little wooden box on my bookshelf.
#37re: Autographs--What Do You Do With Them After You Get Them?
Posted: 7/2/08 at 12:34pmI have an autographed copy of Ethel Merman's autobiography.
#38re: Autographs--What Do You Do With Them After You Get Them?
Posted: 7/2/08 at 12:45pm
I keep them in a database for an elaborate identity theft scheme I have in the works in which I shall no doubt have access to the millions of dollars stashed by the likes of Nick Adams, Spencer Liff and Justin Clynes.
But perhaps I've said too much...
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#41re: Autographs--What Do You Do With Them After You Get Them?
Posted: 7/2/08 at 2:17pm
THIS Justin Clynes?
#42re: Autographs--What Do You Do With Them After You Get Them?
Posted: 7/2/08 at 2:30pm
I have framed them....
Some of them I have in boxes.
Of course if it was Cheyenne I would have licked the sweat off his.... uh.... um.....
#43re: Autographs--What Do You Do With Them After You Get Them?
Posted: 7/2/08 at 2:31pm
I think that's him.
It didn't really register at the time.
#44re: Autographs--What Do You Do With Them After You Get Them?
Posted: 7/2/08 at 2:32pm
"Of course if it was Cheyenne I would have licked the sweat off his.... uh.... um.....
Gum?
#45re: Autographs--What Do You Do With Them After You Get Them?
Posted: 7/2/08 at 2:48pmHow do you get sweat on chewing gum?
#46re: Autographs--What Do You Do With Them After You Get Them?
Posted: 7/2/08 at 3:06pm
I was just dreaming. Sweat, drool, slobber, slime... you name it if it is on Cheyenne (or Paulo for that matter) I would like it.
#48re: Autographs--What Do You Do With Them After You Get Them?
Posted: 7/2/08 at 3:56pmI put the signed Playbill in my Playbill binder, then frame the signed poster and put it on my wall.
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