Drowsy Chaperone Merchandise

[musicallover2008]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 6:48pm

I looked and didn't come up with any boards about this so here I go. For those of you who have seen Drowsy Chaperone, what do they have for merchandise right now? I'm seeing it on May 20 and am very excited for Drowsy Chaperone to be my very first broadway show and am trying to get my finances for that day ready.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 6:56pm

they have 2 different t-shirts.
one is just plain black and has Drowsy's Logo on it. That is about $25.
the other one is a women's fitted (i think one size fits all) shirt that says "The Oops Girl" (I'd recomend to find out what it means first, and buy the shirt after the performance). It is $3o.

i believe they have a program and small things like key chains and buttons. I think the key chain is $9.

There is also a pre-order form for the cast CD, which comes out on June 13th.

[Fabrizio2]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 6:57pm

There are some photos of them recording on Broadway.com

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 7:01pm

oh yeah, the line was pretty long after the show, so if you want to go to the stage door, i would try to get to the merchandise stand really fast, or buy it before the show.

i was lucky enough to meet sutton at the stage door =)
she was one of the first people to come out, but i heard it was pretty rare.

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 7:14pm

That's IT?

Where are the martini glasses with the etched logo? The martini shaker? The stuffed monkey toy? Where is the commemorative LP (yes RECORD) of the cast album? Where is the toy bi-plane? Where is the "authentic" 1920s playbill from the original production? The ukelele with the show's logo painted on it?

Instead... just T-shirts.

[.LittleWing. 0224]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 7:31pm

shows are getting so lazy with their merchandise these days. black shirts with the title treatment on them.... ZZZzzzz

People are already there, at the theatre... if they see some nice, creative shirts or other merchandise they like they are more likely to buy them there than online (if they even sell their merch online). I bet at WICKED people literally throw their money at the merch sellers.... but wicked also has some really creative stuff besides the boring black tee show shirt.

wow that turned into a long rant about boring merch... sorry!

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 7:41pm

I remember two t-shirts (the ones described above), windowcard, magnets, I think a keychain, and a pre-order sheet for the cast recording. I'm positive there wasn't a program, but the vendor said there would be one eventually.

EDIT- I just read best12bars suggestions and I really like the idea of a "vintage" playbill of the Drowsy Chaperone. Updated On: 5/8/06 at 07:41 PM

[C is for Company]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 7:57pm

So Best12(which, by the way what does your name mean?), when can they hire you for merchandising?

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 8:08pm

"Where are the martini glasses with the etched logo? The martini shaker? The stuffed monkey toy? Where is the commemorative LP (yes RECORD) of the cast album? Where is the toy bi-plane? Where is the "authentic" 1920s playbill from the original production? The ukelele with the show's logo painted on it? "

I agree. I wish that they made the cd case into a small cd sized record holder with the TWO cds, including all of bob's monos.

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 8:48pm

C is for Company---I posted this explanation of my name a while back on that "Celebrity of the Day" thread. But if I sent you the link to it, you'd have to really DIG to find it. You might never come out alive, so here it is (below)...


It's an old theatre story. Back when I was pounding the pavements in New York a couple of decades ago, we'd be told every now and then at the ugly cattle calls to sing our "best 8 bars" of a song. Frustrated, I walked into an audition one time and suggested to them if I sang the blues could I get 12 bars? (Fortunately the musical director thought that was hilarious. He understood that "blues" is written in 12 bar phrases instead of 8, and it was my clever and pathetic way of trying to get 4 more bars out of it. He told me just for that, I could sing the whole damn song. I got a callback and almost landed the part... it was a replacement for a lead on Broadway. They narrowed it down to three of us and that's when I got cut. The point is, I decided to be gutsy, semi-clever... and ask for more time to be heard... and it paid off. So I decided to use that as my "name" on this board. It seemed like a personal but logical choice for me.

Sorry for the thread-jack... and thanks for the compliment! Maybe they'll take some of those ideas and use them.

I, for one, would love a set of martini glasses.

[C is for Company]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 9:12pm

Thanks for imparting the tale to us here, you must talk to Beth now and tell her to start pushing your ideas to strengthen the lacking wares they're selling I'm sure she wouldn't mind a nice set to help her working on getting "drowsy" off-set too!

[broadway_freak2]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 11:39pm

Best12 I absolutely LOVE all of your ideas! WickedGeek I love your idea about the cast recording. All brilliant ideas. They need to hire some of you!

[emo_geek]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 11:43pm

Hehe, I love merchandise. I am interning at a huge company's merchandise department this summer.

[.LittleWing. 0224]

Posted: 5/8/06 at 11:52pm

really emo_geek? where? if you don't mind me asking... :)

[emo_geek]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 1:02am

Neopets Inc. They have a huge merchandise line from Stuffed Animals to Play Station Games to a Movie deal all based apon the characters of Neopets.com

[Fosse76]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 10:40am

Is it possible that they are waiting to see how well the show will do before investing in the development for more merchandise?

[best12bars]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 10:54am

Fosse76 --- I'm sure that they are.

Doesn't stop us from dreaming about "cool stuff" though.

[peggyandvelma]

Posted: 5/9/06 at 11:11am

Do we know exactly what tracks will be on the OBCR??
Like WickedGeek said, that would be awesome to have the monologues from Bob Martin.
And I second b12b's suggestions. I would love a vintage record to hang on my wall! (Interesting story, BTW. Very nice!)