My grandma just gave me Super Cool Playbills from the past 10-20 years.

[MimiLovesRoger]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 10:12am

Last night my grandma gave me 4 playbills from shows she's seen on Broadway!! She gave me Crazy For You (from '94, I think), Annie (I believe it's from '81), The Secret Garden ('94, pretty sure), and Miss Saigon ('82, I think).

Just thought I'd share this =)
I was pretty excited!


EDIT: Miss Saigon was from 1994, and Secret Garden was from 1992. (I was at school the first time I wrote this, and I didn't have them in front of me.)

Updated On: 11/22/06 at 10:12 AM

[jjoey076]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 10:14am

'94 is vintage? Where have I been?

[avab802]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 10:20am

LOL, my thoughts exactly jjoey. I was in high school in 1994. 1994 anything is not "vintage." When I read the thread title I thought the OP had gotten Playbills from the '20s or something.

[jjoey076]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 10:22am

Me too.

[MimiLovesRoger]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 10:22am

Sorry. They're vintage according to me. (Well, I'm 16...but whatever).

[jjoey076]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 10:26am

No no, I didn't mean to rip you apart or anything. I think that's awesome that you have those, but when i read "Grandma" and "VINTAGE" in the same sentence, I thought...Pal Joey.

[jpbran]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 11:05am

Actually, a Miss Saigon Playbill from 1982 would be close to a decade too early....

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 11:25am

Oy! Those are considered 'vintage'? Ouch! I guess my seeing ANNIE in 1977 is prehistoric!

Double-oy!

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 11:29am

To me vintage is pre-1950!

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 11:36am

Yeah...I think something needs to be over 30 years old to be considered vintage. Ten years old is just "used."

[ahmelie]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 11:46am

My aunt gave me issues of Theatre Arts magazines from the 50s and early 60s.

My issue with Barbara Cook on the cover is one of my most prized posessions.

Updated On: 11/22/06 at 11:46 AM

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 11:55am

Now those are vintage, even if not pre-1950. Any Theatre Arts magazine is a find.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 12:32pm

I have Playbills from the 1960s and 70s. It's fun to look through them and see where restaurants were located and what has changed about New York City. One of the playbills has the O.J. Simpson Hertz rental car ad. Another one has a gossip column that talks about Prince Charles being an eligible bachelor and that whoever got to marry him would be very lucky.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 12:34pm

I have a vintage Lestat playbill. It has Jack Noseworthy in it.

Erm, I mean...

[lildogs]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 12:52pm

I have something else with Jack Noseworthy in it....

The bf ha a client that gave him a boatload of old playbills--my faves were the JULIUS CAESAR from The Mercury Theatre and MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG--I'd kill for an ANYONE CAN WHISTLE!

[All_For_Laura]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 1:07pm

Yeah the Saigon playbill cannot be from '82, It was not out then. It didn't even preview in London until 8/1/1989

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 1:49pm

God, if '94 is vintage, then I'm a relic.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 1:49pm

God, if '94 is vintage, then I'm a relic.

[XOsweet_dancerOX]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 2:08pm

goodness gracious '90's are vintage? that makes us all sound old.

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 2:12pm

Including me! And I'm 16 as well...

Age is creeping in on me already!

:)

PS: I do like that you've got a Miss Saigon one though! I'm a bit jealous...

[singtopher]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 2:22pm

^ It doesn't get any better. I have to say, 20 was the worst birthday for me so far.

[AnythingCanHappen]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 2:39pm

Not intending to rag on you, at all. I just got a giggle out of your use of vintage. (English major here)

Courtesy of dictionary.com
~Representing the high quality of a past time: vintage cars; vintage movies.
~Old-fashioned or obsolete: vintage jokes.
~Being the best of its kind:
~A group or collection of people or things sharing certain characteristics.
~A year or period of origin: a car of 1942 vintage.
~Length of existence; age.

[LollyNYC]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 2:56pm

oh yeah? well is your grandma Kristin Chenoweth? because mine is. Well, my fake grandma OBVIOUSLY because she is a saintly virgin like mary!!!!!!!!! BECAUSE I asked her if she would adopt me and she said no and I said why not CHENO (her nickname, no one really knows it except for me because its a big secret)? and she said because you need to stop seeing my shows and maybe get a hobby such as carving heiroglyphics into wood or studying your bible and I said but KRISTIN CHENOWETH YOU ARE WHAT LIGHTS ME UP and she said 'fine ill be your grandma!!!!' but she's like, you know, that kind of grandma you can't be like 50 feet within. I think its because she has a disease but one jealous cow was all 'uhhh its called a RESTRAINING ORDER' and im like you beastly jealous freak you just wish you had that kind of relationship with someone as famous as kristin chenoweth.
Updated On: 11/22/06 at 02:56 PM

[LilDiva05]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 3:21pm

And things like ^ that are why I love my friends. =]

[MimiLovesRoger]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 3:22pm

Kay guys...sorry. I guess i consider vintage differently. I thought it was cool getting older playbills. Maybe I'm just oober young compared to most people here. Sorry to have caused a riot.

FINE----Let me start over...

Hey guys! I just recieved some old playbills from my grandma yesterday.

Is that better?

I'm 16...leave me alone!! I guess I'm really old. But in '94, I was ****ing 4 years old. So...yeah.