Oldest Broadway Item you have. — Page 2

#26

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.

#27

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 9:21pm

Patti-Is-Perfection, I keep shooting you but you are still ALIVE!

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#28

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 9:26pm

The OCR of A Chorus Line on LP.

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#29

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 9:38pm

1937 CRADLE WILL ROCK script signed by Marc Blitzstein and the cast.

#30

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 9:40pm

Skin Of Our Teeth - Plymouth - 1942

#31

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 9:42pm

Program from the 1930's with Helen Hayes in VICTORIA REGINA.

#32

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 9:54pm

Little Shop of Horrors original off-Broadway windowcard.

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#33

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 9:56pm

^ You wouldn't happen to have a playbill would you?

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#34

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:15pm

OBCR A Chorus Line...on a CD. (Not that cool, but I was 8 when I got it)

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#35

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:21pm

I have a souvineer brochure from the first national of "Okalhoma!" that references "Allegro" as a new and exciting musical

I also have the closing night playbill (or at least, week) for "High Button Shoes"

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#36

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:30pm

I wish, SpellingBeeFan. I actually spent quite a bit on the windowcard 'cause it's the only one I'd ever seen on eBay up until that point.

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#37

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 10:47pm

I have a Playbill from the original production of "Man of La Mancha" that I found tucked away in the sleeve of the original cast album at an antique store (of course I bought the record). The Playbill is not the original cast, but there are many original cast member credited in it.

And, not nearly as old as that (or as old as many of the things listed already), but I just love mentioning it: souvenir program from the Stratford production of "Carrie." $35 on eBay, and totally worth it!

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#38

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 11:16pm

Brighton Beach Memoirs playbill (with Jon Cryer, pre-Pretty in Pink, as Eugene) from 1984.

Well, it's older than I am...

#39

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/27/08 at 11:17pm

the original 1951 King and I OBCR LP... I bought it a used book-store for 50 cents :)

Edited for historical inaccuracies...

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#40

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/28/08 at 8:41am

...I have an original "The Apple Tree" Playbill from back in the 60's??

and I also have a copy of the original broadway cast Chicago cast LP signed by Chita Rivera...

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#41

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/28/08 at 8:52am

My Mother gave me her original cast Playbill for "The Pajama Game". The original production.

#42

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/28/08 at 10:11am

Ziefeld Follies/New Amsterdam playbill from 1927

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#43

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/28/08 at 10:48am

really roseadams, I got the original off broadway window card signed by Roger Corman and playbill for close to nothing on ebay.

#44

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/28/08 at 11:16am

An autographed sovenir program of "Irene" with Debbie Reynolds.

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#45

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/28/08 at 11:21am

Wildcat starring Lucille Ball playbill

#46

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/28/08 at 11:22am

LPs of Lansbury in MAME, BYE BYE BIRDIE, CARNIVAL... I'll have to check what else I have regarding LPs.

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#47

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/28/08 at 11:26am

Lansbury did Birdie and Carnival? Or, are you saying you have LPS of Birdie, Carnival and Mame w/Lansbury?

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#48

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/28/08 at 11:32am

i am jealous of that CARRIE souvenir program!

mine is: OBC Playbill for The Ritz signed by F. Murray Abraham.

#49

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/28/08 at 12:08pm

I HAD a copy of the Stratford "Carrie" souvenir program a slew of clippings sent to me by a fellow Barbara Cook fan who lived in Scotland, but I lost them in a fire.

I do have a pair of dance shoes that were worn by one of the dancers in the "Do Me A Favor" number. I won them on Ebay. I didn't mean to win them, I was just checking to see how much they were going for and I won them.

My oldest Broadway items are a piece of sheet music from the original production of Jerome Kern's "Very Good Eddie" and the souvenir program from the original production "On Your Toes".

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#50

re: Oldest Broadway Item you have.

Posted: 3/28/08 at 1:34pm

Gwen Verdon's 1956 Tony Award for DAMN YANKEES that her daughter Nicole (Fosse) gave me as a gift several years ago after her mother's death.

It is still in its wooden velvet-lined case. Back then they didn't have the spheres dangling on that gong-like thing.