Best finds at the Flea Market?- Page 3

[jv92]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 8:41pm

alliez, Don't feel too bad. The Ragtime sampler is only five songs. It's not like you're getting a full recording. But it is nice to have. And the flea marker is fun, but crowded too, so if you don't like crowds, it may not be for you. I happen to hate crowds, so I try not to go, but this year, I braved the crowds and went. I'm glad I did.

[binau]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 8:42pm

I want the sampler too, if anyone wants to sell it to me ($20 USD? + shipping to Australia) I'd buy it :P.

[alliez92092]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 8:46pm

Oh I know, I'm just such a huge Ragtime fan that I love listening to anything related. And I don't mind the crowds. Actually, if I hadn't had a show this weekend I would've gone to New York. But there's always next year :)

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 8:59pm

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.

Yeah you had to "donate" five dollars and complete 10 things on the list to get 5 chances to win something, I don't remember what it was. And most of the things on the list were things you had to purchase, like two broadway green allience totes, or a playbill with a broadway diva on the cover. There were a couple of triva questions,some tasks you could do at certain tables, or you could update your facebook status/twitter that you were doing the scavanger hunt and that all counted as something. I ended up not turning my sheet back in. It wasn't worth it.

Updated On: 9/26/10 at 08:59 PM

[ljay889]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 9:11pm

I am so grateful for the opportunity to meet Stritch. Thank you AdamGreer for inviting me!!!

Here is a list of what I bought

-Those big styrofoam window cards: Night Music and Sondheim on Sondheim. 2 for $40.

- Window cards/posters: Side by Side by Sondheim (WOW! $10). Patti LuPone at Les Mouche ($1), Pacific Overtures ($1), Assassins ($1), Next Fall ($1), Phantom of the Opera signed poster - full cast ($3).

- West Side Story (2009) program - $5.

- Follies at Papermill playbill - $3.

- Desiree to Fredrika letter - $2.

Those were my best finds. I also bought some other small things.
Updated On: 9/26/10 at 09:11 PM

[Gary Indiana]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 9:24pm

I got:

Broadway Backwards DVD - $20
High Fidelity Window Card Signed by the cast - $10
Rock of Ages drumsticks signed by the drummer - $5
Spamalot umbrella - $5
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels cd - $5
Little Shop Revival cd - $3
Hedwig movie cd - $1
Irena's Vow & Rooms window cards - $5 for both
Irena's Vow & Neil Simon Plays magnets - $1 for both
Shrek whoopie cushion - $1
Color Purple, All My Life, & Hairspray sampler cds + 7 playbills - $1 for the lot
Behanding in Spokane, Proof, Next Fall, Dinner with Friends, The Seafarer (2), A Wonderful Life and Rhapsody in Seth window cards + 2 copies of the Behanding script - $1 for the lot
Irena's Vow Program - free

[fscmocsgal]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 9:39pm

@mattyp4 & @TheActr97J: Can I say jealous? I <3 9 to 5. Have Allison, Stephanie, and Megan's signature on one of my playbills, but I wish I had something with the entire casts signature on it.

Sounds like many of you all got some good deals/finds. Wished I lived a little closer to NYC. Can't wait to hear the rest of everyone else got.

[legally_popular]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 9:40pm

I got mostly posters. One table had posters were $1 each, but while I was looking through them they announced 5 posters for $1 (WHAT!?) so I found 4 I liked - Next Fall, 110 in the Shade, The Sound of Music sing-a-long, and Mary Poppins. And at the Triton Gallery table I got 3 posters for $5 - Oleanna (Julia Stiles and Bill Pullman), After Miss Julie (Sienna Miller and Jonny Lee Miller) and the OBC of Annie.

And then I picked up a bunch of little High School Musical, Little Mermaid and Lion King things at the Disney table - $2 (4 for $1) that I'm planning on giving away to my little cousins.


Later in the day as I was going by the Next to Normal I found out that with every $50+ purchase, you get 2 free tickets to the show for that day (by the time I went there were only evening show tickets left). If I was with a friend, I definitely would've considered this. Pretty good deal to get a souviner they had and two tickets.

[MeggilyWeggily08]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 9:40pm

Playbills-
Rent 1997
A Chorus Line
The Wedding Singer
Happy Days at the Paper Mill
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Seussical
In My Life
beauty and the beast
Spring Awakening

Hairspray, and Finian's Rainbow programs.

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Updated On: 9/7/11 at 09:40 PM

[BroadwayGuy12]

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

I had loads of fun this year! It may have been crowded, but all I had to do to make that feel manageable was think back to last year's indoor flea market. Here's what I got:

Windowcards (I went a little crazy because I have a new room to decorate this year):
Flea Market 2010 - $10
A Little Night Music (CZJ/Lansbury) -$10
Hair (2009 Revival) - $5
Ragtime (Revival) -$5
In the Heights - $5
Avenue Q - $5
Anyone Can Whistle (Encores!) -$2
A Chorus Line (Revival) - $2
The Little Mermaid - $1
Gypsy (LuPone) - $1
Next Fall - $1

Playbills (3 for $1):
reasons to be pretty (Off-Broadway)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
And Then There Were None (London)

CDs:
Xanadu OBCR - $5
Footloose OBCR - $5
Ragtime Revival Sampler - $1

Other:
Urinetown Toilet Paper - $10
A Behanding in Spokane Script - Free

I also caught the matinee of BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON. It was a great day for me!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 9:46pm

I got there at 9am and was tree off and on until 6:45 looking for that damn BEHANDING script. Anyone want to sell one??

[CockeyedOptimist2]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 9:47pm

Mattyp4, I don't remember the booth where I got the Drowsy items, but it was on 44th street directly across from the entrance to Shubert Alley. Not all that helpful at this point, I know.

I'm glad everyone had such great luck! Makes me wish I had gone back later in the day and been a little more patient when I actually was there.

I'm still in the market for a few windowcards: Light in the Piazza, Drowsy Chaperone (unsigned and different format-with just the title that says "A Musical Within a Comedy" on it), Oklahoma! (original production...I'll probably just order it from Triton), and Next to Normal. If anyone can help me out, send me a PM!

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 9:47pm

I was only looking to buy a select few items and yet I managed to find everything I was looking for!


LOOPED t-shirt & magnet - $13
RAGTIME t-shirt & keychain - $7
A messenger bag from THE TEMPERMENTALS - $5

And my biggest haul - I won the silent auction from SUNDAY IN THE PARK! It includes a signed Playbill, an oversized styrofoam windowcard, and the drawing of Dot that Daniel Evans draws in the title number of the show! (All signed by him.)

[ljay889]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 9:48pm

Damn. I saw a ton of Behanding scripts. I only bought one. It has the red cover. It was at the table where you could buy "all you want for $1." This was towards like 4 pm.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 9:51pm

Amazing. I asked every single table if two had them and was told no.

[ljay889]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 9:55pm

Damn! If I knew this was a hot item, I would have swiped them all! I would have given you one. I couldn't believe the table was even doing "all you want for $1!"

[adamgreer]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 9:56pm

Yeah, there were a ton of Behanding scripts at the "All You Can Carry for $1" table. If I had known people wanted them, I'd have taken a whole bunch and distributed them to interested bww-ers.

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 10:00pm

Ack! I totally missed that all you want for a dollar table. Aw well. Next year.

[ljay889]

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

Well it turned into "all you want for a dollar" later on in the day.

[BellatrixxLestrangee]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 10:09pm

I found an MGM book for two dollars...
Haha I'm really not good at these kind of things. I did answer a trivia question and get an ALNM bag!
Also, I'm looking for Light in the Piazza and Into the Woods posters!

[viola13]

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

Biggest purchase (in size and price) was the Hair marquee!

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

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

In case anyone was curious, the Grand Auction brought in a total of $127,350 with the highest item being a pair of tickets to the opening night & afterparty of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING which sold for $10,000!! Other big items were behind the scenes of THE ADDAMS FAMILY ($5250 x2), walk-on in PROMISES, PROMISES ($5250) and a shirt worn by Daniel Craig in A STEADY RAIN ($6500.)

[wdwfreak]

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

One thing I forgot to put on the list is I bought over 100 opening night party admission tickets.

This is the list, if a show has more than 3, the rest are for trade:
Only 1 available:
The Two and Only, Well, A Chorus Line, Les Miserables, Legally Blonde, Coram Boy, Hot Feet, Frost/Nixon, Come Fly Away, Spring Awakening, Spring Awakening Tony Party, American Idiot Tony Party, Curtains, Drowsy Chaperone, The History Boys, Sweeney Todd, Color of Purple, Barefoot in the Park, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Faith Healer, Souvenir, Inherit the Wind, Little Dog Laughed, Three Days of Rain

- Thurgood x17
- Young Frankenstein x23
- Lupone Gypsy x3
- Lend Me A Tenor x3
- American Idiot x5
- The Country Girl x9
- Dreamgirls x3
- Spelling Bee x2
- Next Fall x4
- Phantom of the Opera Masked Ball x3
- Looped x7
- Tony Awards Gala x4
- Passing Strange x3
- A Catered Affair x7
- La Cage aux Folles x3
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof x5
- Brian Stoke Mitchell at Carnegie Hall x7
- Chita Rivera's A Dancers Life x3

[phantomvegas2]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 10:31pm

I would also pay for a copy of the Ragtime Revival Sampler CD. PM if anyone is willing to help. Thank you =)

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 9/26/10 at 10:39pm

I'm soo jealous, but I gotta ask, where do you people put all this s@#t? Some of your places have to look like an episode of Hoarders. What do you even do with 4,000 buttons from obscure shows and Tony Kushner piggy banks. Sweet jesus.