BCEFA Fundraising Has Begun...

[TheaterLover2]

Posted: 10/27/08 at 12:10am

Broadway Cares Fundraising has started...

What are the different shows selling this year?

Anything besides signed posters and playbills?

[Broadway Baby 2]

Posted: 10/27/08 at 2:12am

All show are selling Carols For A Cure volume 10.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 10/27/08 at 8:09am

What is Spamalot (Broadway, not tour) selling?

Also, I am curious about the Legally Blonde tour.

[flaemmchen]

Posted: 10/27/08 at 12:57pm

Spamalot hasn't started BC/EFA yet, and may not for a while yet. Last spring, they only did fundraising for the last two weeks.

[metoog]

Posted: 10/27/08 at 2:13pm

Saw the Legally Blonde tour yesterday and nothing was being sold.

[sgv123]

Posted: 10/27/08 at 3:06pm

At Avenue Q:

Some sort of button
Carols for a cure
Pictures with Christy Carlson Romano


I can't remember what else.

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 11/4/08 at 12:09am

Updated On: 4/3/10 at 12:09 AM

[singingbackup]

Posted: 11/4/08 at 12:20am

Don't forget you can go online and support your favorite show.

Bcefa.org

Click on Donate and follow the instructions. It's super easy!

[musicman_bwayfan]

Posted: 11/4/08 at 4:14am

How much were the signed Tale of Two Cities posters going for?

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 11/4/08 at 7:32am

Updated On: 4/3/10 at 07:32 AM

[JbaraFan1]

Posted: 11/4/08 at 3:20pm

son of a gun and singingbackup, thank you both for those links and info! I've made a donation button link from Greg's web site for the BILLY ELLIOT show team.

Barb

[BRDWYrobb]

Posted: 11/4/08 at 4:08pm

i know hairspray is selling PPHS shirts for $20

wat about like ITH or little mermaid?

[erinrebecca]

Posted: 11/4/08 at 10:53pm

In the Heights - signed posters and playbills. Scarves knitted by castmembers. Paper cubes made out of playbill inserts.

Equus - also signed posters and playbills. Not sure if they're doing this every night but on Sat. night, they auctioned off a signed My Little Pony and it went for $900!

[popstarjim3]

Posted: 11/5/08 at 11:08am

How much are the signed items at Equus?

Are any other shows selling signed items?

[musicman_bwayfan]

Posted: 11/5/08 at 11:56am

Equus items are unfortunately, in my opinion, way too much. Complete cast signed posters are $250 (the most expensive BCEFA item out there) and signed playbills that are signed by only Daniel and Richard are $100 (yes you read that correctly). With the current state of the economy, I personally feel that those prices are too high. I splurged and bought the poster because now the only people that sign after the show are Daniel and Richard. I figured that the posters for this show would be closer to $100 or maybe even a little over...never ever expected $250.

Any show that is not in previews will participate in BCEFA...so the new bigger shows like Shrek and Billy Elliot will not be participating until the spring. As far as prices go, signed posters for the other shows are probably between $40-60 with the few exceptions like Little Mermaid which was $75 and In the Heights which was $100. I hope Young Frankenstein doesn't continue to sell their posters for $100 since Sutton, Megan, and Andrea have left...who knows.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 11/5/08 at 2:26pm

I also thought the EQUUS windowcards were really high priced. I expected about $100. Also, I dont know how other posters feel, but sometimes after an intense show like EQUUS or SEAGULL, it really breaks the mood to for the actors to go right into the hawking of merchandise. I sometimes feel like a stage manager or chorus should come out. Seeing Daniel Radcliffe acting like Vanna White and bouncing around while I was still reeling from the show was a little disconcerting. I would have walked out (for those of you who would tell me to just leave) but I couldnt get out-it was too crowded and I was too close to the front of the theatre.)

It's not that I so bothered by it, but it certainly interrupts some of the more intense, visceral responses to theatre that are there when you go out and wander into the street after a performance still with your suspension of disbelief intact.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 11/5/08 at 2:32pm

Sunday matinee at Equus...only the poster and the playbill were available.


They take turns with the pitch...no one has to do it that doesn't want to. Didn't bother me at all...kind of lightened things up before heading out actually.

[musicman_bwayfan]

Posted: 11/5/08 at 6:10pm

How much were the signed Seagull posters?

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 11/5/08 at 6:19pm

There were no signed Seagull posters the night I was there-only signed Playbills for $50. I didnt even see windowcards for sale at the Kerr.

[popstarjim3]

Posted: 11/19/08 at 9:46am

Any word on shows that are now selling signed posters?

[SillySara]

Posted: 11/19/08 at 10:30am

Hairspray has a lot of great stuff. Signed posters, signed autograph books, signed hairspray bottles (which were adorable), and jelly bracelets. There may have been a couple more items, they had quite a few things on sale. Also, the best part was that everything was reasonably priced. The majority of the items were $20 and under.

[gilliane]

Posted: 11/19/08 at 11:57am

Equus was still selling them at the same price as of this past Sunday matinee. I don't know why their stuff is so much, how many posters can they sell at $250? If it had been $100 or maybe even $150 I'd have bought one, but as it was I was so annoyed at the price I didn't even put any money in the bucket on the way out as I would normally have done (I'll still contribute, just at another show with less ridiculous prices).

I'm not sure what signed stuff, if any, Spamalot is selling, but on the days they do something (I was there Sunday night and they weren't collecting at all) you can get photos with some of the cast. I heard the cost varies depending if Clay is doing them or not ($20 when he's not there, $50 or $100 if he is).

[Just_John]

Posted: 11/19/08 at 12:17pm

Is Billy Elliot selling anything?

[dshnookie]

Posted: 11/19/08 at 1:39pm

how about Gypsy?

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 11/19/08 at 1:48pm

I didn't see anything on Saturday, but I also wasn't looking very hard.