So who keeps or collects Playbills??

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So who keeps or collects Playbills??

Posted: 8/4/05 at 1:23am

I dunno, could be any... or original cast ones... or just whatever, curious if anyone keeps them, throws them out, leaves them lying around, etc.

I personally keep mine, more so if they are an original cast or something though, but yea, I dunno I keep lots of stuff, even if it's dumb so it isn't a surprise that I would keep PlayBills.

#2

re: So who keeps or collects Playbills??

Posted: 8/4/05 at 1:25am

I keep a playbill (or three or four or five) from every show I see.

Which is a good thing on top of the sentimental value, considering I sold a Wicked San Francisco playbill on eBay for $9...

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#3

re: So who keeps or collects Playbills??

Posted: 8/4/05 at 1:25am

I keep all mine and my tickets...I love them! Kindof a trophy showing that you saw that show.

#4

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Posted: 8/4/05 at 1:28am

I also keep all my playbills and ticket stubs.

#5

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Posted: 8/4/05 at 1:28am

I plan on keeping the future ones. Maybe put em up on this...blank white..wall of this new room of mine.

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#6

re: So who keeps or collects Playbills??

Posted: 8/4/05 at 1:29am

I also keep all my playbills and ticket stubs.

If I get significant signatures on my playbill, I'll have it framed. When you walk into my apartment there is a hallway that leads to my living room that has all sorts of framed window cards and playbills signed by the various casts.

#7

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Posted: 8/4/05 at 1:29am

I also collect Playbills and ticket stubs. I need a bigger box now, though, because mine is overflowing!

#8

re: So who keeps or collects Playbills??

Posted: 8/4/05 at 1:30am

I keep my playbills. And before I came to NYC, my friends who visited used to get me them as a souvenir. They look great when you put them in frames. Especially if they are signed.

#9

re: So who keeps or collects Playbills??

Posted: 8/4/05 at 1:30am

I have all my playbills and ticket stubs from about 14 on.... before that, my mother had them and she didnt see a point to keeping them. I could almost kill her for tossing out my ACL playbill!

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#10

re: So who keeps or collects Playbills??

Posted: 8/4/05 at 1:31am

hmmmi gotta start keepin ticket stubs...

and I'm sad cuz one of my playbills is accidently in bad condition cuz i left it in my trunk when in a rush to goin somewhere.

Blah Hair Spray original cast... It's all screwed up lookin, at least I don't think it's ripped apart or anythin, but not exactly sure.

Oh well... but I should keep stubs...

I remember at one point I was contemplating doing that for movies too. Like I could be like (to my kids or grandkids when i have either), look I saw Charlie and The Chocolate Factory remake with Johnny Depp when it came out in 2005, and I saw it opening night!

Then they could be like OMG WOW! And in reality, I doubt anyone will care in 30 years, but who knows...

#11

re: So who keeps or collects Playbills??

Posted: 8/4/05 at 1:34am

I loooove playbills. Well, when the broadway tours usually come to vegas, they are called a "stage magazine" (how lame haha). I always try to grab at least two from every show I see.

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#12

re: So who keeps or collects Playbills??

Posted: 8/4/05 at 1:42am

Me! Me!

But only for shows I've seen. If it's a show I've learned to love after it's closed, I'll collect memorabilia from it, but never a Playbill. I want to keep my collection "pure."

They're especially fun to read years and years after you've seen a show, and you'll realize you've seen certain actors and actresses who have hit it big since. For example, I found out that I saw Brian D'Arcy James as Enjolras in a Les Mis tour ages ago, before I had any idea who he was.

#13

re: So who keeps or collects Playbills??

Posted: 8/4/05 at 1:42am

I definitely keep more Playbills than I need.

#14

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Posted: 8/4/05 at 1:48am

I keep my playbills and I always get an extra one just in case I lose mine

#15

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Posted: 8/4/05 at 1:50am

I keep all my programs from any show I see. I plan to one day be able to wallpaper a whole wall with them.

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#16

re: So who keeps or collects Playbills??

Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:35am

I am actually very good at not keeping stuff! BUT! I do keep all my playbills for shows I have attended and shows I have not attended. I don't keep ticket stubs anymore, but it is fun to go back and look at the old ones. It really takes you back (not that I'm that old..but I'm old enough) age hint...my first Broadway show was Patti Lupone in Anything Goes at Lincoln Center.

#17

re: So who keeps or collects Playbills??

Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:35am

I have been collecting since I first started seeing shows in 2001. I keep almost all of them, because I'll often see new actors in the same show, so it's nice to have them in the playbill too.
I also collect understudy slips!

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#18

re: So who keeps or collects Playbills??

Posted: 8/4/05 at 3:39am

i always always always keep them

sometimes i'll be awake at 4am and have a sudden urge to read the ensemble cast bios for urinetown or whatever show

i love them. a good momento

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#19

re: So who keeps or collects Playbills??

Posted: 8/4/05 at 5:18am

I put mine in shadow box frames, and put the ticket and other memoribilia in the front.

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#20

re: So who keeps or collects Playbills??

Posted: 8/4/05 at 5:31am

sometimes i'll be awake at 4am and have a sudden urge to read the ensemble cast bios for urinetown or whatever show


Same here. And when I was in high school, playbills WERE my bedtime reading.

Made for easy stage dooring later on, that's for sure...

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#21

re: So who keeps or collects Playbills??

Posted: 8/4/05 at 6:16am

I do

It is a rip looking @ the ones from the 60's & seeing how you could go to a nice restaurant & have a dinner for $ 2.95

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#22

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Posted: 8/4/05 at 7:50am

I put all my tickets and playbills into binders in those clear plastic thingie sheets.

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#23

re: So who keeps or collects Playbills??

Posted: 8/4/05 at 8:37am

I also keep my playbills and ticket stubs. Stupidly, I many have playbills from shows I've seen more than once. Even though they don't change, I still get a new one each time...

#24

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Posted: 8/4/05 at 8:43am

I keep them as well, the ticket stubs too.

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#25

re: So who keeps or collects Playbills??

Posted: 8/4/05 at 9:17am

I collect them too. For a while, I bought frames and hung about 50 around the wall in one room. We decided to take them down for now and I'll hang even more in our hobby room... whenever we have a larger home and have an extra room for fun stuff. Living in Miami is getting to be a lot like living in NYC (condo/apt living and being able to walk a lot of places) but without the Broadway!