Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
A frame, all the 1776 playbills at the Actors' Fund booth (3 original and 1 revival), a Papermill 1776 poster, the Wedding Singer cast album for a friend, 4 Grey Gardens shirts, a Grey Gardens keychain, the Playbill Yearbook, and I won a pair of tickets to Legally Blonde.
Updated On: 9/21/08 at 04:26 PM
I'll play!
-several old 1940s and 1950s Playbills, including one for the original production of Death of a Salesman
-Rock & Roll program
-Grey Gardens, Rock & Roll and Passing Strange t-shirts
-A Puerto Rican flag from the Heights table (I just had to)
-History Boys and Coram Boy posters
-The June letter and "Let Me Entertain You" score from the Gypsy table
-A Passing Strange DVD and cd holder case thingie
And they threw in some keychains and a Urinetown cd sampler for free.
I also won 2 tickets to August Osage County at the TKTS raffle. Whoo!
Two packs of Sutton Foster's Christmas cards.
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
My list:
-Julie Reiber's signed GOOD VIBRATIONS script and vocal score, complete with binder and hand written notes, for $25 from the Wicked table (I care more about the script and score than anything else.)
-An ON THE TOWN script from the GREASE table for $5
-AVENUE Q "Vote Your Heart" bumper sticker for 50 cents
-LEGALLY BLONDE Tony voter rough CD for $1
-XANADU 5-track sampler for $2 (which I then got signed by Tony Roberts and Kerry Butler before the matinee)
-ONCE UPON A MATTRESS libretto for $1
-Suzan-Lori Parks 365 PLAYS in 365 DAYS book for $1
-ORIGINAL STORY by Arthur Laurents for 50 cents from the IN THE HEIGHTS table
-Stanley Richards' anthology of the Best Mystery and Suspense Plays for $2
-Terrence McNally's LISBON TRAVIATA script for $1
-A grab-bag of Broadway Play Publishing scripts, and 2 novels by Simon Gray, for $2
-CYRANO hat for $3
-a bunch of free Playbills from a box marked FREE PLAYBILLS
-and, my favorite, the New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge for $3.
Good day. Really good.
Just one thing for me this year.
A window card from James Joyce's The Dead.
Made me happy! :)
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/06
A High Fidelity button, playbills from the original productions of Bells Are Ringing and She Loves Me, some Bat Boy coasters.
I was wearing my Glory Days t-shirt, and had about 20 people stop me and ask where I'd gotten it. At the theater the second time I saw it, sorry loves. I'm still dying for the "Are You Ready to Make History?" shirt, but I assume they burnt them all.
Highlights (for me) today while walking the Market:
- Edward Albee sucking on a lemon lollipop
- Michael Goddard and Felicia Finley re-enacting the famous Rosie/Elizabeth fight on "The View"
- An adorable little Asian boy (son of Phantom conductor?), yelling on the top of his lungs, selling A Chorus Line headbands for 25-cents
- Seeing a lot of friends!!!
What I came home with:
MERCH
- The Playbill Broadway Yearbook 2008 ($20, plus free tote)
- Grey Gardens T-Shirt ($2.50)
- Wicked T-Shirt ($2.50)
- Rock n' Roll T-Shirt ($2.50)
- Oklahoma! Paper Mill T-Shirt (free)
- Grey Gardens "Daddy's Girl" Button (25-cents)
- A Chorus Line Sweatband (25-cents)
PLAYBILLS
- Titanic Original Bway Cast (25-cents)
- Grand Hotel Original Bway Cast (25-cents)
- Grand Hotel Bway Cast (25-cents)
- Sunset Blvd Original Bway Cast (25-cents)
- La Cage Aux Folles Revival Bway Cast (25-cents)
- Hello Dolly! Revival Bway Cast (25-cents)
- Passing Strange The Public Theatre (25-cents)
Updated On: 9/22/08 at 04:49 PM
* A blue light bulb from SPRING AWAKENING
* A letter from Melchior to Wendla from SPRING AWAKENING
* A SPRING AWAKENING program (noticing a trend here? :)
* Some random books
All in all, a fun year at the flea market!
Wow. I always thought the Flea Market was expensive!
The auction IS expensive ~ or rather the auctions are since there's the main silent auction, the big finale grand auction, and lots of tables that have their own silent auctions. Overall, the stuff at the tables isn't that bad. It really depends on what it is.
Swing Joined: 12/27/07
- ROCK N' ROLL t-shirt for $10
- Disney's ON THE RECORD mug for $1 (plus a free BEAUTY AND THE BEAST poster)
- Playbill yearbook along with tote bag ($20)
This year really didn't do it for me. There seemed to be just too many Playbills and random t-shirts than actual good merchandise, and all the other stuff was too expensive. I was looking hard for any CURTAINS or ALL SHOOK UP (that wasn't just playbills) stuff, and was sad I didn't find any.
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
You missed the Julie Reiber-signed ALL SHOOK UP script/score/Playbill at the WICKED table. She must have been cleaning out her bookshelves.
- playbill yearbook + tote bag ($20)
- Pirate Queen grab bag with t-shirt, poster, etc ($20)
- Spelling Bee t-shirt and beanie ($15)
- Seth's chatterbox videos x2
- Actor's Fund posters of Funny Girl, Chess, and Hair
- A Chorus Line head band ($1)
- [tos] red velvet cake ($1)
- [tos] opening night caricature ($30)
I felt like it was less crowded than last year especially the autograph lines (which I did not participate in). I was also looking for a Drowsy Chaperone martini glass like the one I bought last year (but broke ), but no luck.
This year was my first time, and it was a whole lot of fun.
I bought:
-Spelling Bee Cast Recording, Souvenir Program, and Poster ($5)
-GYPSY Let Me Entertain You Score W/ Patti's Eyeliner Marks ($2)
-Wedding Singer Cast Recording ($5)
-Into The Woods Playbill w/ Chip Zien ($1)
-[tos] Rice Cripsy Treat
All in all, I would've liked to see more [tos] merchandise. I would have bought more, had they had more than just a few little things. Still, very fun.
Karen Mason sold me a fully signed Sunset Boulevard windowcard, and my 14 year old inner fangirl quietly freaked out and handed over the money.
Got a Standing Ovations dvd, a Secret Garden souvenier program (I was looking for the windowcard and have been for a few years but this was almost as good) and resisted buying random playbills for the most part...
Oh and I bought one of those Gypsy marked sheet music things - it looks amazing and will look great framed I think.
Yankeefan007, a friend of mine who was also in ALL SHOOK UP told me she was selling it, but I couldn't find it!
I just wish they'd had more mugs, bags - things you can use. I don't really wear show shirts (except to bed), and I don't collect Playbills.
Swing Joined: 7/12/07
I bought a letter from Spring Awakening that the cast signed =], a Tarzan shirt because it was cheap and I always liked the colors they used in the posters. I probably sleep in it.
And my dad, who was with me found an orginal Equss playbill that he had been looking for since we got there.
I also bought brownies from [tos] .I wish [tos] had more stuff, but i was tempted to buy a Spelling Bee playbill Barrett Foa signed when he got there.
It was funny though when tos started having people bid for their stuff. Like the shirt Hunter wore off Bway
Updated On: 9/21/08 at 06:32 PM
It was my first time as well, and it was certainly fun!
I only got a couple things:
2 playbills (Angels in America and Falsettos)
Autographed pic of Lin-Manuel for my little sister
Signed Intership list from Legally Blonde (Don't really care for the show, but the law student in me thought it was cool)
I got a ton of stuff this year! Wrap up on my blog:
http://feathah.blogspot.com/
And pix:
http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y44/Feathah/Bway%20Flea%20Market%202008/
Broadway Star Joined: 12/12/05
Too much.
Vinyl: Candide OBC
Side by Side by Sondheim OLC
Company OBC
Follies OBC (got signed by Harvey Evans, who is the nicest man in the entire world)
Follies in Concert
Sondheim Etc. Concert
Promises, Promises OBC
Chicago OBC Playbill
No, No Nanette OBC Playbill
Rollerskate wheel from Xanadu
Evil Women Pin from Xanadu
Assorted Grey Gardens pins
I couldn't find a Follies OBC playbill but there is always next year!
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
2 Grey Gardens shirts for $5 total
Cyrano de Bergerac shirt for $2
Cyrano de Bergerac poster for $2
Playbill yearbook for $20
Free Wicked stickers
$65 worth of tickets from the TDF booth (Got 4 pairs)
I snagged:
PIRATE QUEEN bandanna
SPELLING BEE beanie
$5 total and it came with the Selections from URINETOWN CD and a PIRATE QUEEN keychain.
I just got back from being home for the weekend and swore to myself I wouldn't stay long
3 Wicked shirts + 1 Passing Strange shirt
1 Playbill Yearbook
30 bucks total.
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