Broadway Annual Yearbooks

Playbill have their Annual Yearbook Vol. 1 and 2

It comes in 2 volumes so far...2004-05 and 2005-06 for $19.95 each.

I am planning on buying them since I want to read more about the shows on those time periods but at the same time...I am kinda trying to save some money for future shows and other souvenir programs :P

Anybody have them? What are your feedback about the contents of those yearbooks and how about quality?

I haven't tried e-bay yet or any of those used stores...and yet maybe even in the library...but then, I like getting mint conditions for my own collection.

What other oversized broadway books/coffee table books do you know or have?

One time at a bookstore....I saw a complete broadway listing book and it got lots of pictures.

I still plan to buy it :P



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Updated On: 4/21/07 at 05:32 AM

I've only read them, don't own them, but I still love them. They are funny and a great source of information and pictures. I will pick them up eventually.

As for other books, I have the Broadway: The American Musical book and a couple of single shows' coffee table books.

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I adore these books. They are a great source of information for any broadway fan. Can't wait for the next one!

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I read both of mine from cover to cover within a 24 hour day period of getting them :)

Because then, if you're like Weez and need to know who was in Shining City in the middle of the night and you don't have it then, you're SOL.

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Ashley: actually, that time, I was on a train. But I quite often get moments of "I really need to know this about a show RIGHT NOW!" (yes, sometimes in the middle of the night), and it's just sooooo much more satisfying to grab a hefty hardback book and plop it open on my lap than it is to sit at my PC and tap some keys.

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I have both volumes and am eagerly awaiting volume 3. I own the complete set of "The Best Plays of ..." and Richard C. Norton's 3-volume set "A Chronology of American Musical Theater." Who could ask for anything more?

This thread inspired me to take my Broadway Yearbooks off the shelf and look through them. I forgot how cool they are! I love the pictures and I love recognizing people from this season's shows and discovering what they were in a year or two before. Some of these gypsies really do get around!

I recieved Volume 2 for Christmas and could not put it down. The accounts by the actors or crew of the show are both hilarious and insightful. I would like Vol 3 for a birthday gift.

What I love best is that they list and show pictures of just about everyone involved in a show, so I often discover people I know in casts, crews, orchestras, front-of-house staff, etc. that I didn't know were doing or had done a certain show. Except with actors, it can be difficult to find out who's working on shows most of the time. I also love the little stories from each show, I wish they all could be twice as long.