How Much $ We All Unloaded at the Flea Market

Left just as the rain began, found a lot of great deals. Haven't tallied up the amount of $ spent yet, but it's a lot less than last year.

Sightings:
Marc Shaiman at the Fame Becomes Me table doing personalized musical phrases from FBM and Hairspray.
Josh Strickland at Tarzan, selling merchandise and taking photos for $10.
Michael Arden and Caren Manuel perusing the various tables.

Noticed Wicked photos going for $10 a piece signed, Spelling Bee cast signed Playbills for $10, The Producers selling a box o'props for $25, MTC was selling their front of house displays for $40.

Triton's table had a lot of $1 posters, from Urban Cowboy to Doubt to the Vespa DRS poster.

Rent's booth had OBC Playbills signed for $75, front of house displays and doors for $100, new posters signed by the OBC for $75, and Rent 10 benefit programs for $1.

My favorite was the Drowsy booth, which had Powerbars signed by Bob Martin.

I got:
Broadway on Broadway 2005 matted poster (20x2 signed by all of the performers for $40
4 Wicked photos for $40
a Marc Shaiman/Scott Wittman musical phrase from Fame Becomes Me for $20
4 Triton posters for $4
a Rent 10 program for $1
the 2006 Yearbook for $20
and a lot of Playbills for about $10 altogether

Updated On: 9/24/06 at 01:56 PM

Too much.

Both yearbooks, TONS of playbills, a few windowcards (including a beautiful one from the original ACL), and a bunch more. It was my first time and I LOVED it.

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Let's play Identify The Signatures

*Cries*

I WANT I WANT I WANT!

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$85 bucks for 2 Phantom tickets and a CD. Sad. For that much, you should at least have gotten tickets to a 2nd show.

I saw a lot of people upset over spending $100 and winning 5 cds.

I want it all. I wish I could have gone. Do they do this every year?

This is my fifth year in a row and it was the first time I got close enough to the Rent table to get costume stuff. With the movie nearing release this time last year it was nuts. So i finally got some funny (CHEAP) items there. Here's what I got altogether:

Rent - a Captain Crunch box prop $5
Rent - Mimi sleeves $5
Rent - Collins' "Papi" t-shirt $5
Rent - a duct tape wallet holiday gift to the cast from the producers $10
Avenue Q - a really gross soap with a phrase about green hair that may be too rude to quote here $2
ABC Daytime Salutes Broadway Cares concert DVD $25
Spelling Bee - autographed Jesse Tyler Ferguson pic $5

There was also an ABC Daytime table which was a pleasant surprise since I am a One Life To Live addict. Entered a raffle at their table to win tix to this year's concert. Also Bought a few headshots for $5 each.

That's the bulk of it. My mom always has great luck with the ticket raffle. This year she spent $35 and got a pair of tix for The Wedding Singer. Personally I think they should stick to raffling tickets only and leave the CDs out of it. The people winning CDs were getting pretty upset, especially since many where just sampler CDs. But hey - it's all for charity!

I didn't find as much as I usually do but still had a great time. I guess that's due mostly to the fact that a lot of shows I loved are now closed and the ones I'm looking forward to most aren't open yet or are too new (A Chorus Line, Les Miz, HIgh Fidelity.)

I hope they break last year's numbers!

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I spent about $130, but I got some pretty cool stuff.

Windowcards:

FESTEN
THE BOY FROM OZ
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (Harvey, Rosie)
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (Harvey w/ girls)
HELLO, DOLLY! (Carol Channing, revival)
THE COLOR PURPLE (signed by entire cast)
THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE
PACIFIC OVERTURES (OBC)

Playbills:

CATS (5000th Performance)
A CHORUS LINE (6000th Performance)
OLIVER! (OBC)
HAIR (OBC)
1776 (OBC)
TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
NICK & NORA
HELLO, DOLLY! (OBC)

CD:

NINE, Raul Julia (advance copy)

BOOKS:

101 GREATEST MUSICALS (signed by Ken Bloom)
2007 Broadway Musicals Calendar
Q GUIDE TO BROADWAy (signed by Seth Rudetsky)

RANDOM SH*T:

FESTEN opening night coasters

I'm forgetting some posters and playbills, I'll refresh later.

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a Spelling Bee Woe is Me photo 1$
a Spelling Bee Raffel Ticket
Playbill cards from 1990-1991 2$
a DRS poster 1$
a Movin Out poster 1$
Little Women cast recording 5$
an acting book 25 cents
a t-shirt 10$
A bag of POTO props including all the notes, an il muto program, and the auction catolougue 25$
a set of small fine art prints 1$
two Phantom of the Opera photos 2$
one Chicago photo 1$
The Producers suvonier program signed by Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick 5$
Rent OBC playbill
Barbara Cook Mostly Sondheim Playbill
Once Upon a Mattress Revival OBC playbill
Les Mis 10th Anniversary
The Producers OBC
Victor/Victoria OBC

playbills were 6 for 5$
A ticket to Martin Short 60$

Bringing us to a grand total of....

134.25$ I'm glad I'm still a teenager and can blow all this money whenever I want.


Edit://I also bought 4 Drowsy Chaperone Costume Sketches for 10$

Updated On: 9/24/06 at 06:47 PM

stayed for 20 minutes or so, spent $60 bucks at the tkts table. Won Phantom tickets for December and Chicago tickets while usher is still in the show. Very excited. I felt the flea market was a bit sad and expensive this year though.. the tables weren't up to normal par.

it was right outside the helen hayes theatre. I really wanted some stuff from the phantom table but, they raised their prices. I realize it's for charity but, I laid down enough at the tkts table and didn't want to spend my metro card cash on ballet slippers

lestat poster- $5
good vibrations poster- $5
Producers box of props signed by Nathan- $5
adavanced ticket sales/reservations sign from st james theatre- $2
little women cd- $3
tick tick boom at george st theatre playbill- $1
annie get your gun drawing shirt signed by bernadetter peters, gunners broadway show league shirt, and AGYG script- $35
avenue q dry erase board- $.50
avenue q sheet music to "you can be as loud as the hell you want" "special" "i'm not wearing underwear today" and "my girlfriend who lives in canade" all signed by jeff marx- $4
and about $60 on the TKTS raffle, ended up with tickets to wedding singer, grey gardens, phantom of the opera, fame becomes me, and stomp


total: $110.50

I couldn't go today because I was at shul. What was at the Jersey Boys table.?

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