Oldest Broadway Item you have.

#1

Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 1:47pm

For me, it has to be The Music Man playbill from 1957.

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#2

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 1:52pm

The original published and out of print libretto of SWEET CHARITY.
The original program for CHICAGO signed by Chita Rivera .


Not that old, but love them. And sure they will be worth something in years to come. Not that I would ever sell them, especially the program.

Updated On: 3/27/08 at 01:52 PM

#3

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 1:52pm

Souvenir program from Don Cesar's Return with James K. Hackett, 1902

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#4

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 1:55pm

I was going to joke and say I have STRITCH at my house but....


probably my A Chorus Line Program from when I saw it in the late 70s

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"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."

#5

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 1:56pm

A Souvenir book from Mame signed by Angela Lansbury.

#6

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 1:58pm

An original " The Wiz " T-shirt from the original broadway show..

#7

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 2:00pm

OBC Playbills
A Little Night Music
How to succeed
Hello, Dolly (with ticket stub)
Gypsy (with ticket stub)

#8

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 2:02pm

haha, Stritch.

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#9

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 2:07pm

I just looked at my Music Man Playbill and noticed its tears and creases. (Sigh)

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He's a faker, and you've been taken in by his con. And in doing so, you are enabling him. He is doing more damage to aspergers than papa's words ever could. -Chane/Liverpool on me having asperger syndrome.

Updated On: 3/27/08 at 02:07 PM

#10

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 2:44pm

My Playbill for Fifth of July from April 1981, with a note from Swoosie Kurtz still attached. I sent a congrulatory telegram after her Tony win and she sent a really sweet note back.

#11

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 3:38pm

Ethel Merman program from Annie Get Your Gun
Mary Martin Autograph and program

original Chicago and Chorus Line posters (as well as each succeeding ACL poster)
Gwen Verdon's photo and autograph

autographed harmonica opening night Tommy
Alice Ripley as Betty Schaefer, larger than lifesize Sideshow door

#12

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 4:05pm

OBC Cabaret Playbill with Ed Winters replacement slip

which I found inside a Cabaret vinyl record at Salvation Army!

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#13

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 4:15pm

My Angela Lansbury Gypsy program.

#14

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 4:18pm

A Merman-Gypsy Playbill, that I got on eBay in a box of random old Playbills.

#15

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 4:38pm

A 1949 Playbill from Streetcar with Uta Hagan...found while cleaning my great-aunt's basement.

#16

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 5:14pm

Mine isn't as good, but a Damn Yankees playbill from 1994.

#17

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 5:16pm

Sweeney Todd Tour Program Signed By Angela Lansbury.

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#18

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 5:21pm

My Sweeney Todd Souvineer Brochure from the Original London Production, 1980.

#19

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 5:29pm

One of Mary Martin's toenail clippings.

#20

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 5:41pm

playbills

Life With Father-Empire Theatre 1939
Kiss and Tell-Biltmore Theatre 1943

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#21

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 6:55pm

Playbill from the original cast of A Chorus Line

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#22

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 7:52pm

I have a Tru poster signed by Robert Morse 1990. He said to hang it in the bathroom so that's what we did and it's been there ever since.

#23

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 8:22pm

A program from the Ziegfeld Follies @ The New Amsterdam

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#24

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 8:24pm

Patti's underwear.

#25

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 8:36pm

(192 pages from the playbill for the musical RAIN OR SHINE
(1937) autographed pages from the souvenir program for BABES IN ARMS

A scrapbook about my aunt Marion Herson's career includes the above as well as photos and articles about TAKE A CHANCE, FINE AND DANDY, THE LITTLE SHOW, LADY DO and many other shows.