Playbill Index

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 8:12pm

Today I decided to index all my playbills.

Here they are:
Pippin- Bettey Buckley
Charlie and Algernon- OBC
Sweet Charity- Ann Reinking
Dreamgirls- Original Revival Cast
Falsettoland- Original Off-Broadway Cast
The Night of the Iguna- 2nd Revival
Godspell- Promenade Theater, some OBC members
Nunsense- Original Cast
Tru- OBC
A Little Night Music- OBC
Barnum- OBC
Lend Me A Tenor- OBC
Torch Song Trilogy- With OBC members
Evita- OBC
Les Miserables- OBC
Dreamgirls- OBC
A Chorus Line- Ann Rienking and some OBC
Sweeney Todd- George Hearn
Chicago- OBC
Aspects of Love- OBC
The King and I- Yul Bryner, 1st Revival Original Cast
Chicago- Touring Company, Charlotte D’Amboise
La Cage aux Folles- OBC
Sweeney Todd- 1st Revival Original Cast
Kiss of the Spider Woman- OBC
Sizwe Banzi is Dead and the Island- OBC
West Side Story- 4th Revival Original Cast
Rodgers and Hart- OBC
God’s Favorite- OBC
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof- 1st Revival Original Cast
Cats
The Phantom of the Opera- Rebecca Luker
The Music Man- 3rd Revival, Eric McCormack, Original Cast
The Misanthrope- 4th Revival Original Cast
Carousel- 4th Revival Original Cast
Grand Hotel- OBC
On Your Toes- 3rd Revival, Jerry Mitchell and Christine Andreas
My One and Only- OBC
Piaf - -Remembered- OBC
Sophisticated Ladies- Maurice Hines, some OBC
Tango Argentino- OBC
Amadeus
The Glass Menagerie, 4th Revival Original Cast
Lend Me A Tenor, OBC

Shenandoah, OBC
The Color Purple, OBC
Chita Rivera: The Dancers Life, Old Globe OBC
Into the Woods, OBC
Little Me, 2nd Revival Original Cast
42nd Street, OBC
Cabaret, 2nd Revival Original Cast
The Wiz, OBC
The Rink, OBC
The Producers, Tour
Zhivago, La Jolla Playhouse
700 Sundays, La Jolla Playhouse
Jerry’s Girls, OBC
The Phantom of the Opera, OBC
Born Yesterday, Revival Original Cast
The Mystery of Edwin Drood, OBC
Shirley Valentine, OBC
Grind, OBC
Candide, Some OBC members
Big River, Marin Mazzie, Some OBC
Broadway Bound, OBC
Bring Back Birdie, OBC
The House of Blue Leaves, Christine Branski and OBC
Don’t Bother Me I Cant Cope, OBC
Gypsy, 3rd Revival Original Cast
Gypsy, 2nd Revival Original Cast
Les Miserables, OBC
Mary Poppins, OLC
Billy Elliot, OLC
Legs Diamond, OBC
Gypsy, 3rd Revival Original Cast
A Moon For the Misbegotten, 2nd Revival Original Cast
Passion, OBC
Anything Goes, 2nd Revival Original Cast
Goodtime Charley, OBC
Timbuktu, OBC
Raisin, OBC
Toller Cranston’s The Ice Show, OBC
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf, OBC
The Little Foxes, 3rd Revival Original Cast
Song & Dance, OBC
Dancin', Ann Reinking
Equus, OBC
Les liaisons dangereuses, OBC
Me and Bessie, OBC
Grand Hotel, OBC
Macbeth, 43rd Revival Original Cast
Chess, OBC
A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, OBC
She Loves Me, Revival some Original Cast Memebers
Grease, Original Production, Royale Theater
The Grand Tour, OBC
The Sunshine Boys, Jack Gilford
Bette Midler’s Clams on the Half Shelf Revue, OBC
Lorelli, OBC
The Pirates of Penzance, 24th Revival, Maureen McGovern
The Madwoman of Central Park West, Original Cast
Sugar Babies, OBC
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, OBC
Whose Life is it Anyway?, Revival Original Cast
King Cole loves Broadway,OBC
Children of a Lesser God, OBC
They're Playing Our Song, OBC
Morning's at Seven, OBC
Hughie/Duet, OBC
Good News, Revival Original Cast
Brigadoon, 3rd Revival Original Cast
Guys and Dolls, 2nd Revival Original Cast
Guys and Dolls, 3rd Revival, Some Original Cast
The Pirates of Penzance, Kevin Kline
West Side Waltz, OBC
Romance/Romance, OBC
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Carole Kane and Bruce Weitz
The Crucifier of Blood, OBC
Aspects of Love, OBC
The Pajama Game, NYC City Opera
Three Days of Rain, OBC
Aida, Will Chase
Wicked, OBC
Wicked, Tour
Wicked, OTC
Wicked, 1st Replacment Cast
Avenue Q, OBC
La Cage, Revival Original Cast
Peter Pan, Cathy Rigby
Debbie, OBC
Movin’ Out, OBC
Times They Are A Changing, Old Globe
The Light in the Piazza, OTC

Autographed Playbills
Over Here, Andrews Sisters
Little Shop of Horrors, Anthony Rapp
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, OBC
Thieves, Marlo Thomas
Marry Poppins, OLC
Wicked, OTR
Avenue Q, OBC
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, OBC
Rent, Drew Lachey
In Praise of Love, Rex Harrison and Julie Harris
Tarzan, OBC
Wicked, Julia Murney and Touring Cast
Wicked, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Shoshana Bean and Cast
Wicked, Megan Hilty, Eden Espinosa and Cast
Sweet Charity, Christina Applegate, Dennis O’Hare and Cast
In Two Keyes, Anne Baxter, Jessica Tandy, Thom Christopher, Hume Cronyn
On The Twentieth Century, Judy Kaye, Imogene Coca
The Pajama Game, Sharon Miller and Hal Linden
Irene, Jane Powell
The Ritz, Rita Moreno
Sugar Babies, Anne Miller
Gigi, Alferd Drake, Arlene Francis, Karen Wolfe
Caroline or Change, Ben Platt and Anika Noni Rose
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Patrick Cassidy, Amy Adams and Cast
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, San Fransisco Cast
A Chorus Line, Revival Cast
La Cage Aux Folles, Revival
Spamalot, Harry Groener
The Producers, Gary Beach and Roger Bart
Billy Elliot, Colin Bates


For those of you who also have done this...post yours!

[folkyboy]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 8:13pm

just curious: do you use the Playbill books or do you keep them in a box?

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 8:14pm

Box for now, but my next goal is to frame them/put them in binders.

[bwayondabrain]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 8:14pm

wow
did you actually see all those shows, or did you buy some?
but awesome collection
i might do that sometime
wouldnt take too long, though...

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 8:18pm

I haven't seen half of those shows!

I didn't buy any either.

I got the majority of them from a friend who passed away, and in his will gave me those playbills.

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 8:22pm

My God. You are a lucky man.

[JamesMacon]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 8:33pm

Yes you are one lucky man. What is the best way to store playbills besides buying the Playbill binders? Any suggestions..like a regular binder or something...

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 8:40pm

I put my unsigned Playbills inside top loaders and then all of them inside a binder. Works fine and they're easily accessible.

All of my signed Playbills are or are in the midst of being framed and up on my wall. They look pretty cool, if I do say so myself. Updated On: 9/4/06 at 08:40 PM

[mrs felciano]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 8:45pm

Are you selling these? Or just bragging

just kidding!

but wow, great collection!

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 8:45pm

I donno, I just spent all day indexing them, so I thought I would share it.

[ThankstoPhantom]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 8:50pm

I could never sell my playbills.

BTW-I'm a fan of the playbill binders. I put NYC playbills in them only...all others go into a box, and if they are signed, they are put into a plastic sleave.

[mrs felciano]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 8:51pm

I frame the ones from shows I really really loved. Shows I didn't care for very much I just keep in a box.

[JamesMacon]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 8:55pm

Any specific type of cool/funky box? A shoe box? It just seems so wrong to put it in a shoe box...

[mrs felciano]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 9:00pm

No no no! Never a shoebox! It's a funky box I got from The Christmas Tree Shop. They're in good care.

[bwayondabrain]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 9:17pm

my playbills/programs have a drawer reserved that i keep them in, both signed and unsigned
and i keep them in order of when i saw them...yeah
:)

[AshleyBrownFan123]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 10:31pm

Mine are in a small closet. I have over 150.

[Luckydave14]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:14pm

I have 3 drawers stuffed with playbills lol.

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:16pm

I wish they still sold books for the older playbills.

I also wish they made a book with every Playbill ever made - with a little picture and a brief thing of the show. Though that would be tough - especially since there are so many limited and special engagements, dating WAY back.

But still, I could dream.
Updated On: 9/4/06 at 11:16 PM

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:25pm

I have many shoe boxes filled.

And all my programs are in order of the performance I saw and in a plastic bag.

[myManCape]

Posted: 9/4/06 at 11:31pm

If I posted my index it would make this page too long to read. I have over 550.

[PARISinNYC]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 12:04am

HOLY C-O-W.

What a list. I have like 12 different Playbills...but I have like 20 of each. So I have a lot.

[latheatrelover]

Posted: 9/5/06 at 1:25am

I got most of my collection through eBay and other places. Okay, this is going to be a little bit long. For now, I will only list the Playbills I have that either won or were nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical. If anybody wants me to list here the ones I have for Plays and Revivals (Play and Musical), let me know.

(O.N.=Opening Night)

42nd Street
Chorus Line, A
Class Act, A O.N.
Day in Hollywood, A
Ain't MIsbehavin'
Amour O.N.
Annie
Applause O.N.
Apple Tree, The
Aspects of Love
Avenue Q O.N. (signed by cast)
Baby
Ballroom
Barnum
Beauty and the Beast (signed by Mann and Egan)
Bells Are Ringing
Best Little Whorehouse
Big Deal O.N.
Big River
Black and Blue O.N.
Blood Brothers
Blues in the Night
Boy from Oz, The O.N.
Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk
Bubbling Brown Sugar
Bye Bye Birdie
Cabaret
Carnival
Caroline, or Change O.N.
Cats
Chicago
Chronicle of a Death Foretold O.N.
City of Angels O.N.
Civil War
Coco
Company O.N. (signed by Dean Jones and 4 others)
Contact O.N.
Crazy for You
Cyrano O.N.
Damn Yankees
Dancin'
Do Re Mi O.N.
Dreamgirls
Evita
Falsettos
Fiddler on the Roof
Fiorello
Five Guys Named Moe
Flower Drum Song
Follies O.N.
Fosse
Full Monty O.N.
Funny Girl
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Golden Boy
Goodbye Girl O.N.
Grand Hotel
Grand NIght for Singing O.N.
Grease
Grind
Guys and Dolls
Gypsy
Hair
Hairspray O.N.
Half A Sixpence
Hallelujah, Baby O.N.
Happy End
Happy Time
Hello, Dolly
High Spirits
How Now, Dow Jones
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
I Do I Do O.N.
I Love My Wife
Illya, Darling
Into the Woods
Irma La Douce
It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues
Jamaica
James Joyce's The Dead O.N.
Jane Eyre O.N.
Jelly's Last Jam
Jerome Robbins' Broadway O.N.
Joseph and his Amazing etc.
King and I
Kismet
Kiss Me, Kate
Kiss of the Spider Woman O.N.
La Cage aux Folles
La Plume de Ma Tante
Leader of the Pack O.N.
Les Miserables
Life, The
Lion King
Little Me
Little Night Music
Mack and Mabel
Mame
Mamma Mia O.N.
Man of La Mancha O.N.
Me and My Girl O.N.
Meet Me in St. Louis O.N.
Merlin
Milk and Honey
Miss Saigon O.N.
Most Happy Fella
Movin' Out O.N.
Music Man O.N.
My Fair Lady
My One and Only O.N.
Mystery of Edwin Drood
New Girl in Town
Nine
No Strings
Oh, Captain
Oh, What A Lovely War O.N.
Oliver
On the Twentieth Century
Once on This Island
Once Upon A Mattress O.N.
Over Here
Pacific Overtures O.N.
Pajama Game
Parade O.N.
Passion
Phantom of the Opera O.N.
Pipe Dream
Pippin
Producers, The O.N.
Promises, Promises
Pump Boys
Purlie
Quilters
Rags O.N.
Ragtime
Raisin
Redhead
Rent
Romance Romance O.N.
Rothschilds
Runaways
Sarafina
Scarlet Pimpernel
Secret Garden
Seesaw
She Loves Me
Shenandoah
Side by Side by Sondheim O.N.
Side Show O.N.
Skyscraper
Smokey Joe's Cafe
Song & Dance O.N.
Sophisticated Ladies O.N.
Sound of Music
South Pacific
Starlight Express O.N.
Starmites O.N.
Steel Pier O.N.
Stop the World
Sugar
Sugar Babies O.N.
Sunday in the Park with George
Sunset Boulevard
Sweeney Todd
Sweet Charity
Sweet Smell of Success O.N.
Swing O.N.
Swingin' on a Star
Take Me Along
Tango Argentino
Tap Dance Kid
They're Playing Our Song
Thoroughly Modern Millie O.N.
Tintypes
Titanic O.N.
Tommy
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Urinetown
Walking Happy
West Side Story
Wicked O.N.
Wild Party O.N.
Will Rogers Follies O.N.
Wiz, The
Woman of the Year
Wonderful Town
Zorba
Year with Frog and Toad, A O.N.
1776
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels O.N.
Light in the Piazza O.N.
Monty Python's Spamalot O.N.
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee O.N.

The list isn't complete because I have some that I haven't indexed yet. And I only mentioned some of the signed ones I have. Some shows I have several Playbills of because they have been signed or it was the show I saw.



Updated On: 9/5/06 at 01:25 AM

[musicalmaster703]

Posted: 5/5/08 at 4:16pm

Anyone else care to list?

[MissAnneThrop]

Posted: 5/5/08 at 4:20pm

now i feel like a freak 33,370 and counting. I have them all chronicled on an excel spreadsheet and they reside on several bookcases.

[musicalmaster703]

Posted: 5/5/08 at 4:25pm

can you pm me the list?