BCEFA Flea Market 2018 Collectors Unite! — Page 6

Jordan Catalano said: "That’s a quite from ROMY AND MICHELE’S HUGH SCHOOL REUNION."

That's what I thought... but was it also in a play? It was a weird thing to be at the Roundabout table (if I'm remembering that right). They had a bunch too, like at least 5, so it wasn't a one-off oddity.

atuomala said: "This is unlikely, but I’m curious to know if anyone on this board bought the Norbert Leo Butz signed mug of beer from My Fair Lady? I’m jealous of you whoever you are."

Wow! I didn't see any items from My Fair Lady when I went (I arrived after 6pm.... when most vendors were already packing up.) I did watch the remainder of the live auction and felt it wasn't as exciting as last year's (when people had a bidding war for Springsteen opening night party tix and Ben Platt's last performacne and Bette's last performance.) This year, I think one of the exciting ones was the auction for Mean Girls --- when 2 teenagers and their parent were trying to outbid each other! The auctioneer stopped and even commented he wishes he had that kind of allowance! lol

My post with what I bought seems to have not posted earlier. Hmm...

My haul:


A sign from Mean Girls that reads "#FollowMe I'm the line for the ladies room"

Sunday in the Park With George tee

Cabaret hoodie

Ornament made by one of the kids from School of Rock

Hello, Dolly! Program booklet

School of Rock program booklet

Company OBC CD

Many sippy cups

And a few odds and ends of office supply stuff.

I do agree that the merchandise wasn't the most exciting for the most part. Like I used to get so many cast recordings, but it was a lot of not that kind of stuff. And the end of the day bargains were barely there. Or maybe I just came back too late.

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I'll post my flea haul here! I was there from 9:20 (a booth was open) to about 4:30. I also had a friend who traded with me a bit... Ready?

-Newsies Broadway Window Card

-Fun Home Off-Broadway Window card

-Great Comet Mailer

-In the Heights Pre-Broadway

-Spring Awakening Pre-Broadway

-Falsettos, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Waitress (with flyer), Opening Night

-The Band's Visit Pre-Broadway

-Hamilton, Kinky Boots, and Next to Normal OBC

-A Bronx Tale at Papermill

-Ghost Quartet at NYTW

-Shrek, Spiderman: Turn off the Dark, Les Miserables, and Something Rotten

-Second Stage and Kindness Day Hansen flyers (as well as Days of Rage and Head over Heels new)

-Fan Day ticket sleeve of Hansen

-Mean Girls cup signed by Barrett

-Great Comet T-Shirt

-Mean Girls "We make fetch happen" T-Shirt

-Connor Murphy undershirt from Mike Faist run, "Fake News Editor" T-Shirt from Will Roland run in Dear Evan Hansen

-Lights of Broadway Flea 2018 pack

And I also hit the selfie stage with Fankhauser and Kara, took photos with Barrett and Nikil, and got a cupcake from School of Rock. Maybe I was just lucky, but this year was an amazing haul. PS, lots of this was from Dancing over 40, which was the strongest table with every rare I got.

As for crowds, they were alright but I agree with the lined being routed awfully. Not only that, but Mean Girls was very poorly managed when Barrett showed up, and people pushed to the front very often.

Updated On: 9/30/18 at 10:35 PM

I had a great time, as usual. I took a red eye back from a wedding in LA just to be there at the start. I had to miss it for travel last year... Never again!

There were definitely some interesting curiosities if you kept your eyes open, but they are increasingly few and far between. A lot of it is just luck and being in the right place at the right time.

My haul:

-Opening night gift from the original Broadway production of Les Miz in 1987- an engraved pewter wine chalice- $40
-First edition Assassins and paperback Sweeney Todd libretti both signed by Stephen Sondheim- $50
-Seven foot-long A Chorus Line poster with a picture of every cast, commentating when it became the longest-running musical- $10
-Once On This Island OBCR vinyl record signed by Flaherty and Ahrens
-Livent hard hat from the unveiling of the Ford Center for the Performing Arts- $5
-Angels in America Playbill signed by the entire revival cast- $5
-The Theatre Posters of James McMullan coffee table book- $2
-Playbill from the 1980s flop musical, The Wind in the Willows, starring a young Nathan Lane- $2
-Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark mousepad- $1

Posters:
-The Rink 3-sheet- $20
-Joan Rivers in Sally Marr and Her Escorts window card- $20! (Sorry to the other poster from earlier in the thread... )
-Bob Fosse’s Big Deal window card- $25
-Framed, original Marat/Sade window card- $15
-Diary of Anne Frank window card, signed by Natalie Portman and the full cast- $35
-Starlight Express window card with full credits- $25
-Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark pre-Broadway window card- $25
-Paul Davis Three Penny Opera rolled poster- $10
-Charles Strouse’s Marty window card, starring John C. Reilly- $5
-In the Heights OBC window card- $5
-Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Broadway window card $5
-Sleep No More window card- $5
-A Doll’s House Part Two window card- $5
-Sutton Foster in Anything Goes window card- $5
-War Paint window card- $5
-Mamma Mia pre-Broadway window card- $5
-Paul Davis For Colored Girls... window card- $5
-James Earl Jones/Christopher Plummer Othello window card- $5

I wish I could’ve made my money go a little farther, but I agree that some of the tables were being really stingy in not wanting to mark stuff down at the end of the day. They ended up leaving with a lot unsold. I too got the “it’s for charity” line, which I found rather obnoxious, considering the three giant bags full of purchases I was lugging around all day. Why not get something for the cause rather than just lug boxes back to the office?

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I almost forgot my other big item. It was a fake Tony award given to the cast of Spiderman: Turn off the Dark as an opening night gift.

I also got a Once Christmas ornament for free somewhere because they had 2 boxes of them that were forgotten to be put out at the end of the day. Was hoping for more things like this then. Heck, nobody was even very enthusiastic about end of the day sales, which has happened in past years.

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Marianne2 said: "I almost forgot my other big item. It was a fake Tony award given to the cast of Spiderman: Turn off the Dark as an opening night gift.

I also got a Once Christmas ornament for free somewhere because they had 2 boxes of them that were forgotten to be put out at the end of the day. Was hoping for more things like this then. Heck, nobody was even very enthusiastic about end of the day sales, which has happened in past years.

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I would love to see a photo of that faux Tony

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Random question, but did ANYONE find anything from the 2009 revival of Hair? At the last minute I couldn't go to Flea so I had some people digging around for me. I normally look on eBay but there's not really much coming up.

I didn't see any HPCC items aside from the mentioned tote bag. Not quite sure why they didn't have a table.

I'm so sad that I missed My Fair Lady! I was really curious about what they'd have. Let's see...



Neva Club Anasttasia opening night shot glass

Christy's cronuts (I went early specifically so I could try them because I hadn't been able to last year)

A Carousel magnet

Two Amelie shirts for $2 each! I had to-the high school I went to is performing it. One tank top that just says Amelie and a t-shirt that says Amelie on the front and "The Time Is Right For Dreamers" on the back

A Public Theater magnet that says "All Are Welcome Here"

A Bombshell T-shirt

A Broadway Cares towel

Hurt Locker and Little Miss Sunshine Playbills

Souvenir program from Carousel

Posters: Sweeney Todd, Hair 50th anniversary celebration, Bright Star

A serving tray with a whole bunch of Broadway show logos on it

A sweater that might have been worn by Laura Dreyfuss in Dear Evan Hansen,. but when I went back to the table later in the day, she told me a lot of the stuff was cut from being used in the show, so that was kind of a let down, but it's so cozy, I'm fine with that. Plus it was a bargain for the company it was from (…Free People? I got it for $10, I think).

My only photos of the day:

Erika and Barrett from Mean Girls

An actor from the revival of Sweeney Todd at the Barrow Street Theater



Overall, I'm very happy with my haul this year. I am sad I didn't get a OOTI goat, but I also couldn't afford to get a ticket to the show, and wasn't that the only way to get one? I'm sad I didn't get one-I really love the show.

Also--just curious--what kind of things did My Fair Lady have to offer?

Updated On: 10/1/18 at 08:18 AM

Danielle49 said: "Lauren2 said: "What HP stuff did they have? "

The only Harry Potter stuff I spotted were a thin tote bag with the show title on it and some #KeeptheSecrets pins here and there"

I bought pt 1 & 2 playbills for $1 each. I spotted one of the pins but didn't buy those

jkstheatrescene said: ""Besides the odd item here and there, it was a lot of the same and the same seemed extremely overpriced and even as of a couple minutes ago, tables (I’m looking at you Head Over Heels & Pretty Woman) "

Yes... and asking about a possible bargain at both tables at around 6PM, I was greeted with two rather ...um... rude (another word I'd like to use, but I'm a gentleman) replies... A rather smug woman at the HOH booth gave me a "well, of course not! It's a collector's item. At that price, it's a steal." At Pretty Woman, the guy just laughed at me...

Still, I found some great things for gifts for friends... one of whom reads these boards, so my lips are sealed!

Best "bargain" The Once On This Island Tony Voter "virtual reality" box. At one table , it was $25. Three tables down, it was $5. Sold!

Funniest thing... the cast hawking DEH prop casts for $5!! Last year they were in the hundreds...And this was at about noon. How the mighty have fallen. Mean Girls was the mob scene this year... next year Be More Chill."

The cast for five dollars was actually the entry fee for a raffle to win the cast. They did a similar raffle last year.

Good to know! Didn't realize it was a raffle...

Still I was surprised at the relative lack of traffic at the DEH table throughout the day.

The DEH cast was $500 if you wanted one outright but $5 to enter the raffle.

I came after 6pm and one of the tables was quite generous with the sippy cups. I think one was $3 but I was able to buy 8 for $10... .and on top of that they gave me 2 extra just to get rid of inventory. I plan to use them next time I have bway friends over to my place for drinks (each sippy cup is from a different show so it's an easy way to identify which drink is which person's!)