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Playbill Stealing
#25re: Playbill Stealing
Posted: 11/13/09 at 7:44pmPlaybills are mini-magazines that are put out each month. Inside there are advertisements, theatre related articles, and cast lists/biographies from the show you're at. Each show has the same playbill. If you go to see Hair on Friday and Ragtime on Saturday the articles will be the same in both playbills.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
Updated On: 11/13/09 at 07:44 PM
#26re: Playbill Stealing
Posted: 11/13/09 at 7:44pmEris, you just insulted Rusty and Pat's intelligence! I'll sick Squeeze and Dusty on you!
#27re: Playbill Stealing
Posted: 11/13/09 at 8:03pmI take an extra one from the usher's stack also....I really don't want one from the floor, because somebodies sweaty fingerprint might be on it. Also, when I do take an extra one I hide the one I already have ,,,,,I guess because I think a cop will tackle me to the ground or something?? lol not sure why I care if someone sees me.........
#28re: Playbill Stealing
Posted: 11/13/09 at 8:04pm
Holy crap, I was just coming here to do the same as Bobby. XD Srsly, don't diss Pat and Rusty! :P
I took an extra Playbill once. It was from the floor rather than an usher's stack, and I needed it for my scrapbook. I'm beginning to get really sad about the price of programmes in the West End. My programme for Turandot was £5! I'm not going to the Coliseum anymore if the programmes are going to get more expensive while the seats aren't going to get any less uncomfortable. XP
jo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#29re: Playbill Stealing
Posted: 11/13/09 at 8:09pm
Dsnookie,
I just looked at my copies --
*Opening Night Playbill (signed) - dark grey/slightly purple tint
*Other Playbills ( I saw it 5 times from Oct 10- 18 ) had dark grey with almost bluish tint
*Playbill from the last time I saw it ( signed) - more purplish with dark grey tint
Now I have a collection of differently hued covers 
Sorry - but I think there was no distinction at all -- they were simply the result of the color tints that came out from the printers. They probably try to minimize the costs of printing and were not too careful with quality control.
Your copy is okay - what you have is all they've got!
Jo
Updated On: 11/13/09 at 08:09 PM
#30re: Playbill Stealing
Posted: 11/13/09 at 8:10pmA fingerprint on a Playbill? No!
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#31re: Playbill Stealing
Posted: 11/13/09 at 8:11pm
And for the record Eris and Weez: Here is an actual photo of Emma and Winston (here with their intellectual peer, Drunk Chita Rivera).
Updated On: 11/13/09 at 08:11 PM
#32re: Playbill Stealing
Posted: 11/13/09 at 8:13pmIs that UKkid standing in front of them in the yellow?
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
KirbyCat
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/08
#34re: Playbill Stealing
Posted: 11/13/09 at 8:23pmI actually asked an usher at Shrek if I could have an extra Playbill. He said I could take as many as I want from his stack! (I proceeded to take about 6.)
#35re: Playbill Stealing
Posted: 11/13/09 at 8:27pm
jo, okay.
It is also possible to distinguish color playbills from black and white ones by the www.playbill.com logo at the bottom of the front cover.
but if you dont think they are different, I agree to disagree
#36re: Playbill Stealing
Posted: 11/13/09 at 8:29pmIf you ask the usher at any show, I'm sure they'll be more than happy to give you extra Playbills. You don't have to "steal" them. Sometimes they have Playbills at the stage door that they're willing to give away, too.
kchenofan's computer is broken right now. This is her fridge. Now, you can leave a message, but say it slowly, so I can write it on a post-it note and stick it to myself.
#37re: Playbill Stealing
Posted: 11/13/09 at 8:32pmChenofan, they can't be stolen. They don't belong to anyone.
#38re: Playbill Stealing
Posted: 11/13/09 at 8:34pmActually, every playbill ever made belongs to me. It's printed on each one in tiny, itty bitty print. "Property of Eris"
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#39re: Playbill Stealing
Posted: 11/13/09 at 8:38pmBobbyBubby: Notice the quotation marks around "steal". Do I need to come through your computer and make air quotes for you?
kchenofan's computer is broken right now. This is her fridge. Now, you can leave a message, but say it slowly, so I can write it on a post-it note and stick it to myself.
jo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#41re: Playbill Stealing
Posted: 11/13/09 at 8:46pm
No problem, dsnookie
Thanks for that bit of info on the www.playbill.com color block at the bottom -- I am afraid that in all my playbills of the show, all had a yellow band of color. Maybe the newer ones are in white?
Postscript: My signed poster has arrived -- and the same black and white artist rendering on a larger scale against a very dark and inky border now looks like art photography! The signatures were also carefully placed near the title, not marring the melded images by which the artist has captured the essence of the play. It will look very good mounted on a wall, maybe because it is "art noir" 
Jo
Updated On: 11/14/09 at 08:46 PM
MusicSnob1
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/09
#42re: Playbill Stealing
Posted: 11/13/09 at 11:18pm
1) Why would you ever need more than one copy of a playbill for the same exact show? Really. I actually don't get it. One is more than enough.
2) I love this thread
3) "I'd never acquire the 710 Playbills that I currently have if I didn't do this!" Emma Zaks, you officially have no life. No life at all.
When I think about you, I touch myself.
#43re: Playbill Stealing
Posted: 11/13/09 at 11:23pmI ALWAYS take at least 5 when leaving the theater. I don't think it matters. Tonight at Ragtime they had Opening Night Playbills printed and I took at least 7 or 8 of them.
MusicSnob1
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/09
#44re: Playbill Stealing
Posted: 11/13/09 at 11:26pmI think you're a criminal. LOOK! There is a picture of you in this very thread, Drunky Drunk Drunk.
When I think about you, I touch myself.
#45re: Playbill Stealing
Posted: 11/13/09 at 11:29pm^^What? Are you trying to be funny? I don't get it.
MusicSnob1
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/09
#46re: Playbill Stealing
Posted: 11/13/09 at 11:34pm
No. I'm saying that you are a nincompoop and that you should stop stealing sh*t that isn't yours.
Night Night.
When I think about you, I touch myself.
BudFrump23
Broadway Star Joined: 5/20/03
#47re: Playbill Stealing
Posted: 11/13/09 at 11:36pmHaving ushered, I will usually give out extra Playbills to anyone who asks for one. I do get annoyed when they grab them off the stack as I'm holding a heavy handful of them, but I don't say anything. I think it's better though to take them from the piles at the end of the show. You don't have to hold onto them throughout (smushed in your bag, curled up in your pocket, wet from your sweaty grip) and we ushers (well, me anyway) won't mind. The only thing that happened to me was once, we had forgotten a stack of Playbills (50) downstairs, and before we knew it, the house was full - and we had to go get more. It didn't help matters that almost 20 people that night wanted an extra Playbill. We ran around stealing a few from each usher. But when all is said and done, ask for an extra, and I'll give it to you with no fuss. I didn't buy the darn things.
I'm as jumpy as a virgin at a prison rodeo!
#48re: Playbill Stealing
Posted: 11/13/09 at 11:38pm
When I went to the Minskoff Theater for the actors fund Frank Loesser event they ran out of playbills. I sat next to the pile so it was entertaining how people ran and grabbed like 8 of them at once. The ushers started eying the audience to see who had more than one.
Also at the Bernadette Peters Concert this past week, I asked to grab a few playbills and the usher pointed to the stack, I grabbed them and took my seat. When I got home I discovered they were all Lion King Playbills.
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December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
December 19th- Noises Off, Edith Piaf Concert at Town Hall
#49re: Playbill Stealing
Posted: 11/14/09 at 12:10amI always take at least five extra. Theres nothing wrong with taking extra because they're never gonna do anything with those programs anyway.
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