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#26

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/18/08 at 8:13pm

i keep all of my playbills and ticket stubs in the binders that playbill.com sells. i keep the signed playbills in one binder and the unsigned ones in another. ticket stubs and understudy slips go inside the playbills. i love all of them! my favorites are probably the final CATS performance, final Tarzan performance, and spring awakening signed by jon groff and lea michele.

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#27

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/18/08 at 8:34pm

I'm on my 19th leather volume of Playbills from the shows I've seen, plus a shelf alphabetically listed, apprx 1000 loose ones.

#28

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/18/08 at 8:48pm

Usually I try to collect as many as possible when in the theater (in aisles and such) and then hand them out to my fellow Theater arts students in my school, and then present my review in class. I then keep the one signed and one else, with the signed one in my Playbill Binder and the unsigned in my closet in a large drawer.

I also am in the habit of having them sign the CD lately.

#29

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/18/08 at 9:34pm

Yep. I filled two of the large Playbill binders and then bought a few binders of the right size from Office Depot. I'm just about to start on my 5th.

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#30

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/18/08 at 9:59pm

I keep mine in folders [per show] in a filing box [i have 2 at the moment and I need another one] and I always ask for extra playbills
I had a nice usher at In The Heights who gave me 15 playbills!
You never know what will happen in 2030 when people value these playbills!

#31

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/18/08 at 10:17pm

I keep all my Playbills and programs in the Playbill binder. I have nine different Playbills, six amateur production programs I've seen, then seven from shows I've been in (two of those from singing recitals). Seven of my Playbills are signed by the cast. I don't really have a favorite.

"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim

#32

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/18/08 at 10:23pm

I do, but I really need to take better care of them, they are just in a bunch of huge piles stuffed in my cabinet

#33

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/18/08 at 10:26pm

I originally just had a few and put them on my bookshelf on my desk in my dorm behind my russian bear but then as the collection grew I started storing them in a box - and when I left college my mom offered to take it with her in the car to which I replied " are you kidding? there's stuff in there signed by Patti Lupone, Norbert Leo Butz, and Megan Mullally. this box never leaves my sight"

#34

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/18/08 at 10:36pm

I've got 2 2-inch binders full of playbills and programs from every theater production I've seen in the last two years. Because I'm OCD like that, this includes Broadway, tours, regional, and even high school stuff.

Because I'm cheap, I just put them in generic, acid-free 8.5x11 plastic sleeves made for the 3-ring binders. It works pretty well because I can either put in 2 playbills or 1 larger program in each sleeve and keep everything together.

I always keep my understudy slips in the playbill, and my ticket stubs go in old school scrapbook pages where you just slid the pictures into the slots instead of making fancy pages. They're at the front of the binder.

#35

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/18/08 at 10:41pm

This is BroadwayWorld.com...shouldn't we be asking if anyone here doesn't keep their Playbills?

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#36

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/18/08 at 10:42pm

The only one I never kept was Dr. Dolittle on tour because I hated the show. I keep every other one though. Right now, they're in a drawer (along with programs and such), but I need to find a binder to put them in.

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

#37

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/18/08 at 10:43pm

What, no wall pictures yet?

You guys are slipping.

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#38

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/18/08 at 10:49pm

"Yes! My plan is to get a table with a glass top and put the Playbills under the glass top. Maybe a coffee table or a dinner table."

This is a good idea!!!!

#39

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/18/08 at 10:54pm

I've got 2 of those nice playbill binders full, One is full with signed Playbills, the other is not.

If I have friends going into the city and I know they're seeing a show, I'll ask them to bring me a Playbill.

I think I'm loving my signed ITH one right now. It's so hard to pick one though, they're all amazing!

#40

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/19/08 at 7:57am

Yes...all 27 years of them...although it's not as many as it could be because I don't live in the city and took an 8-year-break from Broadway when I was married.

They're in a plastic bin that my daughter drags out every once in a while to poke through them.

Most have at least one signature..one has a personal note from Swoosie Kurtz attached to it.

#41

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/19/08 at 9:19am

I have 6 official Broadway Playbills:
-25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee- December 30th 2007
Signed by Jenni Barber.
-Spring Awakening- April 2007
Signed by Jonathan Groff, (twice. Don't ask. I honestly don't know.) Skylar Astin, Gerard Canonico, John Gallagher Jr. (um... twice), Gideon Glick, Frances Mercanti-Anthony, Lauren Pritchard, Krysta Rodriguez, Phoebe Strole, Jonathan B. Wright, and Remi Zaken.
-Rent- August 2006
Signed by Christopher J. Hanke, Antonique Smith, Tim Howar, and Shaun Earl
-Rent- August 2006
Signed by Christopher J. Hanke, Antonique Smith, Tim Howar, Shaun Earl, and Haven Burton.
-Rent- August 2007 (During Adam and Anthony)
Signed by Telly Leung and no one else. And next to his name I drew a squeegee with a heart around it.
-In The Heights- June 14th 2008
Signed by Karen Olivo, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Seth Stewart, Eliseo Roman, Olga Merediz, Robin De Jesus, and Joshua Henry.

I have 2 Broadway Tour "Playbills"
-Rent- January 5th 2008
Signed by Heinz Winckler, Christine Dwyer, and Jed Resnick
-Avenue Q- February 2008
Unsigned

I also have 5 programs from regional productions in Philadelphia.
-Tick, Tick... Boom!- April 2006 (11th Hour Theatre co.)
-Urinetown- April 2006 (Villanova Theatre)
-Wittenberg- March 2008 (Arden Theatre Company)
-Assassins- September 2007 (Arden Theatre Company)
-Our Town- June 2008 (Arden Theatre Company)
All are unsigned.

...That was fun. :)

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#42

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/19/08 at 10:31am

Yes, I do keep mine. Most are signed and I even get extra playbills for friends.

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#43

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Posted: 6/19/08 at 10:40am

i hope to get enough to make a border around the top of my room...idk though

i love the table idea

#44

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/19/08 at 11:38am

I keep all of my Playbills. Some are signed(most have at least one signature on them and some have almost the whole cast) and some are not. There's 3 Wicked ones that are framed though. Annaleigh Ashford's(which has everyone but Stephanie's siggy on it) and Stephanie J Block's(which only has her and Lindsay K. Northen siggy on it) last shows and Kerry Ellis's(All the leads but Cristy Candler with random ensemble members also) first show. And the last show of the Les Mis revival is framed with the ticket. Those are my favorite ones since they have the most meaning to them.

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#45

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/19/08 at 2:23pm

i bought one of those playbill books off playbill.com and i keep all my playbills and ticket stubs in there.. keeps them nice and doesn't let them get ruined (:

#46

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/19/08 at 2:30pm

I have several hundred Playbills. Most of them are bound in volumes by the season. See my profile for the list :)

#47

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/19/08 at 3:57pm

I think it's weird when people sell their Playbills on eBay.

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#48

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/19/08 at 4:09pm

I have the plastic sleeves made for comic books with the cardboard backing the playbills go in there with the tickets above them.

#49

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/19/08 at 4:41pm

I have a question. What do you guys do with programs rom broadway shows (I mean the large ones full of pictures). I want to keep them safe, but I can't figure out what to do.

I also save my Playbills. I keep them in 6x9 manilla envelopes, they fit perfectly. And keep all of the envelopes in a box. (I also take more Playbills than I need. I saw Cry-Baby w/ my sister yesterday and brought home six playbills. SIX! I have a problem.)

#50

re: Do you keep your Playbills?

Posted: 6/19/08 at 4:46pm

^^ six?
I took home over 20 from In The Heights and Avenue Q

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