Best finds at the Flea Market?- Page 2

[jv92]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 6:15pm

Wow, I really should have looked through the old Playbills. Sounds like there was some good stuff.

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 6:21pm

I just got home after spending the entire day at the Flea Market from 9 am on. I had my best year purchase-wise by a mile! Somehow I managed to get some epically insane deals! My most expensive purchases were:

- 9 to 5 windowcard signed by the cast and Dolly ($60- won at the silent auction)

and

-Bernadette/Stritch full cast-signed windowcard ($50 first thing in the morning)

My coolest finds though were:

-Bob Fosse signed Christmas card, and a hand-written note from Ginger Rogers ($5 each!!!)
-Bernadette signed Gypsy windowcard ($20)
-Caroline, Or Change at the Public, opening night gift from Tony Kushner signed by Tony K. ($30, it's a cute little porcelain alligator bank from Lake Charles, Louisiana)
-Exit the King full cast-signed oversized, foam core poster ($25)
-Vintage "Zero Mostel in Fiddler on the Roof" T-Shirt ($20)

And then I got a ton of other assorted goodies (apparel, windowcards, etc.)! I always make sure I save up a good amount of money for this event so I can have an awesome spree! :)

Updated On: 9/26/10 at 06:21 PM

[FunnyGirl617]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 6:44pm

original Funny Girl & Barefoot in the Park playbills ($20 for both)
original A Little Night Music, The Life, Jerry's Girls, Grand Hotel, Seesaw, and Me and My Girl playbills ($0.50 each)

[JudasIscariot]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 7:05pm

I envy you guys that got to go. The only reason that I wanted to go was to find an A Behanding In Spokane script, but unfortunately I had rehearsal today so couldn't get one. Hopefully I'll find one next year.

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 7:17pm

The guy who sold me the Exit the King signed poster tossed the Behanding script into my bag for free! Maybe I'm cute or something? :-P

[wdwfreak]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 7:22pm

Even though I went and bought a ton of stuff, if anyone decides that you don't want something you want, send me a PM please!

[JudasIscariot]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 7:28pm

Similarly, if anyone has A Behanding In Spokane script that they'd be willing to part with for a huge McDonagh fan, PM me if we can work something out!

[adamgreer]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 7:29pm

My big purchase...I won the grand auction item to meet Elaine Stritch at A Little Night Music!!
Ljay and I will be enjoying "an afternoon with Madame Armfeldt"!!

[jagfkb]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 7:33pm

Signed Wicked Understudy Board (Lets not discuss how much I paid... lol)
Drowsy Chaperone Frisbee- $2
Little Night Music Letter/ Invitation- $10
Shrek Opening Night Turntable Magnet gift- $2
And so much more... Categories:

POSTERS:
Sweeney Todd (2006)- $5
Company (2007)- $5
Camelot (paper mill, 2003)- $5
The Baker's Wife (Paper Mill, Alice Ripley)- $5
GIGANTIC Drowsy Chaperone CD Poster- $10
Squigs Title of Show Print- $30
Drowsy Chaperone- $5
Curtains- $5

RECORDS:
Mystery of Edwin Drood- $1
Camelot- $1
Promises, Promises- $1

PLAYBILLS: (Each $1-$2)
The Norman Conquests (OBC, Morosco Theatre)
1776 (Revival)
The Capeman
The Norman Conquests (Revival, Color)
13
Blast (2000, Broadway Theatre)
Radio City Christmas Spectacular (1996, My first show... ever...)
Guys and Dolls (Broadway Theatre)
Annie Warbucks
titanic (OBC)
Candide (Broadway Theatre)

And finally, for a whopping $1:
Sunday in the Park With George (OBC, w/ Bernadette Signature)

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 7:34pm

adam, that's amazing! I'm so jealous!!!

[jv92]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 7:38pm

Wow!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 7:41pm

On my last go around I got

-Cast signed ADDAMS FAMILY windowcard - $10
-Diary of Anne Frank & I'm Still Here, Damnit! windowcards - $2 (They wanted $50 for these the beginning of the day to which I said HELL NO)
-IMPRESSIONISM display - $1 (I'm one of the people who adored this show so this made me very happy)

[BroadwayPhan]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 7:50pm

Posters seemed to be going for less money earlier in the day today than in previous years. Usually I've found posters have mostly started around $10, only to drop to $5 later in the day (before going to $1 at the end). But today at the start, there was a place doing 7 posters for $10, Triton had $2 posters as usual, and many other booths started at $5.

Some highlights:
Framed Into the Woods (OBC) poster - $20
Cabaret (Cumming/Richardson Revival - $1
West SIde Story Revival program - $10
Bernadette Peters Concert DVD - $20
Ellton John/Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Concert DVD - $10
Princesses Demo CD - $10
High Fidelity Demo CD - $2
Ragtime Revival Demo CD - $2
Hairspray Demo CD - $2
Assassins Revival, Pacific Overtures Revival, Deuce, Shrek, Inherit the Wind, White Christmas, Three Days of Rain, Cats, 42nd Street (Merrick production), Mary Poppins. Fiddler on the Roof (Topol) Posters - $1-$2 each
Fiddler on the Roof (Topol) program - $1
A Steady Rain poster - $10
Thoroughly Modern Millie poster - $20 (ok, not cheap but couldn't resist)
Mamma Mia pre-Broadway poster - $10
700 Sundays/Sound of Music Revival, Legally Blonde programs - $1 for the trio

I definitely missed the Playbill table this year. I usually pick up the Yearbook from them every year. Last year, they had some good stuff too...$1 Playbills from closing performances of Rent and Hairspray.

[jv92]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 7:50pm

Someone on ATC said they got a Mandy popup from Sunday in the Park with George (You know, from the "Putting it Together" sequence?) AND a "Blue Crystal" from The Rink signed by Chita! Or maybe it was on here. In any event, I'm jealous! And I'm pretty sure I walked past the Mandy cutout/popup without even realizing.

[perfectlymarvelous]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 7:53pm

Harvey Fierstein Fiddler tour window card - $5
Assassins flyer - $1
A Little Night Music "Glamorous Life" letter - $2
Yank! pin-up calendar - $5
The Sound of Music colored Playbill signed by Rebecca Luker, Patti Cohenour, and Fred Applegate - $15
Royal Ballet School letter from Billy Elliot - $5
broken music box piece from Next to Normal signed by Kyle Dean Massey and Marin Mazzie - $25
Matt Morrison/Megan Hilty, Kristy Cates, and Kris Cusack Chatterbox DVD - $20
Ragtime hoodie + free Ragtime keychain - $15

Not too many super unique finds this year, but I'm happy with what I got. :)

[jv92]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 7:54pm

I'm really happy with my Night Music "Glamorous Life" note. It's quite charming.
And adamgreer, that's wonderful you're meeting Stritch. I think, and I could be wrong, she's s fairly nice person, but who knows? Tell us about your adventure! Updated On: 9/26/10 at 07:54 PM

[MadameLibrarian212]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 8:06pm

hmm...lets see

for plabyills i got
the music man (revival w/ rebecca luker)
the little mermaid
promises promises
my fair lady
show boat (hal prince...my singing teacher was in the playbill...she played magnolia)
kiss me kate (marin mazzie revival)
the pajama game (kelli o'hara and harry connick jr. revival)
the light in the piazza

4 photos from phantom ($.25 each!)
souvenir brochure from phantom from the original production
a little mermaid baseball cap
little mermaid tee shirt
the music man cd (from the revival with craig beirko and rebecca luker)

and...a phantom poster signed by john cudia, ryan silverman, jennifer hope wills, and marni raab

[lightguy06222]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 8:10pm

I spent $60 in total today. Not too bad!

Program-
Thoroughly Modern Millie (from when a friend of mine was in the cast)
KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN with Vanessa Williams- FREE!

Souvenir Programs:
Fela
Slavas Snowshow- FREE
The Rocky Horror Show
Shrek (which i had John Tartaglia sign when I ran into him)
Burn the Floor

Sweet Charity OBC CD.
Various Notes used onstage in PHANTOM

Artistic Rendering of HIGH FIDELITY, signed by Anna Louizos (sp?)
- She is one of my favorite designers, and I was at the opening night performance and party for High Fidelity!

Windowcards (all FREE) :
Boeing Boeing
Lion King
Slavas Snowshow
Stomp- Framed
Jelly Roll- Framed, and signed by the entire cast
The Apple Doesnt Fall (which i took specifically for the free frame)

Oh, and I also won a pair of tickets to A LIFE IN THE THEATRE, and a pair of tickets to THE FANTASTICKS.

not a bad day!

[Anakela]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 8:12pm

Afternoon haul:

$75 to get three windowcards framed.

$10 A Steady Rain windowcard

$10 another Ragtime hoodie + free keychain (for a friend, being reimbursed)

$5 givenik.com raffle tickets

$1 Paper Mill Playbill of Leslie Kritzer in Funny Girl

The 6pm 'everyone's getting rid of their stuff, so all of this was free' list:
Calendars (Broadway Bares 2010, Bares 2011)
Windowcards (A Bronx Tale, The Tempermentals, Twelve Angry Men, Pygmalion, The Glass Menagerie)
Magnets (A Bronx Tale, Sandra Bernhard, Matt & Ben, Cry-Baby, Make Me A Song, Once Around the Sun)
Spamalot cd sampler
Disney stickers
Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance Party button
Spamalot lip balm

Updated On: 9/26/10 at 08:12 PM

[twinbelters]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 8:13pm

I met Elaine years back and she was gracious, but salty, sure.

You have all gotten some great stuff. Is it always so affordable? Wish I could make it one of these years.

My favorite thing so far is the vintage Fiddler t-shirt, but the blue crystal signed by Chita is interesting. I wonder what the story is there. I love The Rink.

If anyone wants to send me something, they're free to do so. =)

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 8:25pm

Oh boy...here we go...

Window Cards:
2010 Tony Awards-$1
A Chorus Line, Legally Blonde, and Chicago-3 for $5

Books/Plays:
An Education Screenplay-$1
1991 Tony Awards Prompt Manual-$1
Audrey Hepburn Book-$2
Creating a Role-$1
An Anthology of Fraiser Scripts-$1
In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play promotional script-$1
The Avenue Q Activity Book-$1

CDS/DVDs
Ragtime Preview CD-$1
Scenes from Hamlet with Jude Law DVD-$1
Fiest:Let it die CD: &1

Other:
Guys and Dolls Souvenir Program-$1
Two Ragtime Tees for a dollar that came with two free keychains
Invitation prop from A Little Night Music from the night I saw it- $2
I was also one of the first 75 people to donate to/enter the scavenger hunt so I won a Broadway Flea Market Tee.
I did two spins on the wheel and got Disney Stickers and Jersey Boys temporary tattoos.
I spent 20 dollars on the TKTS stand and won Rock of Ages tickets which I traded for Blue Man Group which I then traded for The Importance of Being Earnest at Roundabout.

It was a pretty tame flea market for me this year but I'm happy : )


Updated On: 9/26/10 at 08:25 PM

[perfectlymarvelous]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 8:27pm

twinbelters, there's always been a range of prices when I've gone...basically anything from a dollar (or less) on up, and by the end of the day, things are very reduced or free. The really big ticket items are the auctions...depending on what it is those can go for quite a lot. A lot of haggling also goes on.

[James2]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 8:36pm

I didn't buy these, but I saw rare widescreen VHS's for Lady and the Tramp and Sleeping Beauty. Where were these when I was a kid?!?

[alliez92092]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 8:36pm

I want that Ragtime revival CD so badly. And like, everything else you guys got. I will make sure I get to the flea market next year. It always sounds like so much fun.

[Anakela]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 8:38pm

I was also one of the first 75 people to donate to/enter the scavenger hunt so I won a Broadway Flea Market Tee.

How was the scavenger hunt? Like, I'd heard that you had to pay to enter it, and that a bunch of things to "find" on the list weren't things to find, but purchases to make? So I didn't even bother looking into doing it. But just in case they're doing it again next year, worth doing?