Retro Playbill Covers to be distributed at every Broadway show in October, for company's 140th anniversary — Page 2

They're not selling playbills yet, but they do have posters with all the covers.

At last night's performance of OUAM, we received the 1960s cover. Everyone around us in our section of the Orchestra appeared to receive the same cover. I'm seeing The Hills of California and The Roommate in the next few weeks, so I'll be curious to see the cover I receive and whether a variety of covers are distributed that night.

I doubt there's a chain here, and reddit might be better suited for this request, but I collect Playbills, and would be curious to see if anyone (local or not) would want to create some kind of hunting chain? I'm a local and have pretty easy access to a handful of theaters Playbills that I would use as trade material. If anyone wants to DM, maybe we can spend the month helping each other?!

I got all 4 at "Cabaret" tonight but oof it was tough lol

They were in their own little stack tucked under a seat near the exit.

At JOB last night, up in the mezzanine, they had them laid out on a shelf and they said "Pick one". I asked if I could pick all 4 and the usher said "of course".

At "The Hills of California" they were all mixed together and it was luck of the draw. At intermission I found them (like Jordan) all behind the last seat in the orchestra and now have the collection.

What irked me was that most patrons just left them on the floor for both shows. I wanted to scream "Look at what your missing."

It is nice to see Playbill.com selling the whole seats. I want the "Oh Mary!" set.

Updated On: 10/3/24 at 12:29 PM

At R+J it seemed like each usher had a different stack of designs but each usher only had one design. Sunset had them shuffled together and handed them out to people before heading upstairs. Did a bit of a walk around after both shows and was able to find a few on the ground though only saw two designs for Sunset so not sure if they were handing out all 4 that day.

I think the posters are cool, especially the ones where they put a bit of effort into making the show artwork different on each cover as well. It would be cool if the posters were available in person somewhere instead of just via mail order. I was thinking that once the red bucket collections start, that having autographed copies of these posters might go over well.

Updated On: 10/4/24 at 08:31 AM

Once Upon a Mattress just had one design when I went, and that was with casually checking multiple levels too

Even though tonight was the last night, Death Becomes Her was being rather pissy. Also, they REALLY spread them out. Orchestra seemed to have 2 versions, front mezzanine had a mix, and the rear mezzanine had one that wasn’t in either section.

Honestly glad this month is over because in all my years of theatregoing, I have NEVER sniffed out so many playbills like a bloodhound before.

quizking101 said: "Even though tonight was the last night, Death Becomes Her was being rather pissy. Also, they REALLY spread them out. Orchestra seemed to have 2 versions, front mezzanine had a mix, and the rear mezzanine had one that wasn’t in either section.

Honestly glad this month is over because in all my years of theatregoing, I have NEVER sniffed out so many playbills like a bloodhound before."

Were you able to collect all 4 postcards too at Death Becomes her?

I'm sad to see this go as a gimmick, even though some of these designs looked like they were given like two seconds worth of effort.