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#1

How do *you* store your PLAYBILLs?

Posted: 2/3/07 at 11:43am

I recently got two new bookcases and redcorated. Looks GREAT, but I have a request: let me know your ideas and what you do to store your PLAYBILLs- especially autographed ones. I have many of them with autographed covers and some with inside autographs as well. I'm aware of the binders they've made with the pocket pages and will look into them when I get to the City next (which should be June for the Tonys), so this is kind of a temporary fix I'm looking for. But who knows: if an idea I get from one of you, I may use it and forget about the binders How do *you* store your PLAYBILLs?

Used the search, but found nothing quite like this.
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Updated On: 2/3/07 at 11:43 AM

#2

re: How do *you* store your PLAYBILLs?

Posted: 2/3/07 at 11:46am

Well I put each one I have in polypockets, then put them in a ringbinder file. It makes an autograph collection for me. Maybe thats any help to you?
#5

re: How do *you* store your PLAYBILLs?

Posted: 2/3/07 at 11:56am

I've got that Ultimate Playbill Binder & I've got all mine in there. But I have a frame that I put some special one in (last one I saw, show I root for at the Tonys, closing day...)

It works very well. My binder is about half full, with about 30 Playbills in there.
#6

re: How do *you* store your PLAYBILLs?

Posted: 2/3/07 at 11:56am

I store them like Comic Books in plastic sleeves with acid free backboards
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#7

re: How do *you* store your PLAYBILLs?

Posted: 2/3/07 at 11:57am

Thanks for your ideas!
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES--- "THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
#8

re: How do *you* store your PLAYBILLs?

Posted: 2/3/07 at 11:58am

You guys are great!
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES--- "THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS

Updated On: 2/3/07 at 11:58 AM

#9

re: How do *you* store your PLAYBILLs?

Posted: 2/3/07 at 11:58am

My first triple post! *lol* Silly computer *winks*
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES--- "THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS

Updated On: 2/3/07 at 11:58 AM

#10

re: How do *you* store your PLAYBILLs?

Posted: 2/3/07 at 12:02pm

I hava a special drawer for theatre memorabilia, where I have one playbill per show and all duplicate play bills go into a shoebox...
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#11

re: How do *you* store your PLAYBILLs?

Posted: 2/3/07 at 12:07pm

Right now... in one of the drawers of my dresser. Not the best idea. I think I will look into the binders as well.
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#12

re: How do *you* store your PLAYBILLs?

Posted: 2/3/07 at 12:11pm

I put signed ones and some that are non signed, in my playbill binder. Other ones I have in a drawer and I have a couple of signed ones framed.
#13

re: How do *you* store your PLAYBILLs?

Posted: 2/3/07 at 12:18pm

Thank you for your ideas!

MusicAndPassion, LOVE your avie and love the idea of the frame and switching it out to go with a special occasion! Nice.
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES--- "THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
#14

re: How do *you* store your PLAYBILLs?

Posted: 2/3/07 at 12:25pm

Some are in boxes under the bed, some are in plastic zip lock bags and the signed ones (Elaine Stritch, Chita Rivera, Betty Buckley and Vanessa Redgrave and the cast of Long Day's Journey into Night) are framed and hanging on the wall.
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#15

re: How do *you* store your PLAYBILLs?

Posted: 2/3/07 at 12:47pm

I have three of those binders from Playbill.com and they work wonderfully. Especially when you want to look something up in any of them. I put the ticket stub on the back side of the sleeve as well.
#17

re: How do *you* store your PLAYBILLs?

Posted: 2/3/07 at 12:54pm

Each year I make a yearly trip. When I get back I then frame all the shows I saw together with the Title "New York (year)"

I have frames from 2001 on up lining my walls up and down my staircase.

A great conversation starter.

#18

re: How do *you* store your PLAYBILLs?

Posted: 2/3/07 at 1:06pm

My signed ones are framed and on my wall. The rest of them are kept in a shoebox (but arranged alphabetically, so there's some organization to the madness). I have so many unsigned Playbills. One day I'll take inventory and put them in a binder, but until then, shoe boxes it is.

Updated On: 2/3/07 at 01:06 PM

#19

re: How do *you* store your PLAYBILLs?

Posted: 2/3/07 at 1:31pm

Those Playbill binders, while they are perfect, are insanely expensive. If I had the money, I'd buy enough of them to store all of my Playbills (probably 13 or 14 binders, at $30 a piece plus shipping, or $35 a piece on the street). I bought one a while back just to see what the hoopla was about. The cardboard binder probably costs about a penny to produce, while the 18 plastic sleeves probably cost about another penny. So until I find an affordable way to store them, I keep my Playbills in various boxes/drawers/containers around my apartment.

By the way, what are polypockets?
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#20

re: How do *you* store your PLAYBILLs?

Posted: 2/3/07 at 1:40pm

A great thing about the comic book solution is that you can also get the thin long white boxes made for them, and the plastic and the cardboard are specially made so that they don't yellow the paper, and then you put them in the long white box and you can flip through them easily.

Also, a suggestion for ticket stubs. As soon as I'm shown to my seat, I put the ticket stub through the space between the two staples inside the front cover so that they stay there and I never have to worry about losing them.

I think those playbill books are insanely expensive too, and a total ripoff
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#22

re: How do *you* store your PLAYBILLs?

Posted: 2/3/07 at 1:48pm

I have over 3.000 Playbills and most of them are stored in the Playbill binders.

Just a word of warning, though: The older ones are not only yellowing, but crumble very easily (my collection dates back to the 60's). I've been told it's because of the acid in the paper.

Does anyone have any suggestions for preserving them?
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#23

re: How do *you* store your PLAYBILLs?

Posted: 2/3/07 at 1:49pm

I have that problem too. Get them in a protective frame or get the professionally stored. Don't touch them.

Fen: That's great, but then your ticket stub gets bent in half.
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#24

re: How do *you* store your PLAYBILLs?

Posted: 2/3/07 at 1:52pm

Putting a Playbill in a protective fram for a long period of time results in mildew. The Playbills are too thick to have the proper fit under glass.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#25

re: How do *you* store your PLAYBILLs?

Posted: 2/3/07 at 1:53pm

Thank you guys! These are all great ideas.

Note to self: no PLAYBILL binders re: How do *you* store your PLAYBILLs?
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