A friend of mine who worked in theatre for nearly 40 years left me her collection of playbills when she passed away. They include:
-Opening night playbills from many of Sondheim's shows, including original COMPANY, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, FOLLIES and SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE.
-Playbill from the original production of JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS at the Village Gate.
-Playbill from the original A DELICATE BALANCE, signed by Tandy, Cronan and Seldes.
-Playbill from the opening night of MAME.
-Playbill from MACK AND MABEL signed by Preston and Peters.
There were close to 500 playbills in the collection. I treasure them and think of my friend whenever I look at them.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
