The 2013 Flea Market Thread- Page 7

[jacobp]

Posted: 9/24/13 at 1:09pm

My experience this year confirms if you go looking for something specific yu won't find anything. I was set on getting 3 triton frames for Matilda, Drood and Follies posters. I couldn't find Drood or Follies. I felt like the Flea Market was a bust. But then something magic happened. It was like 5 minutes before the end I was bringing my Matilda poster to the Triton table and sitting there in all its glory was a framed, ORIGINAL, raised ink and all poster for CARRIE Broadway. I asked how much they said no less than 100 dollars. I was floored considering their reproductions of that poster are 75 dollars. Its an incredible piece I couldn't believe my luck.

In all
3 Triton Frames ( Matilda, Follies and empty)
Leap of Faith Poster
Lysistrata Jones Poster

Original Broadway Casts Playbills:
Promises, Promises
Goldilocks (Elaine Stritch)
Kismet
Pal Joey
Fanny
On Twentieth Century (Play and Musical)
Cabaret
Damn Yankees (Verdon in Lingerie and Baseball Uniform)
Cat on A Hot Tin Roof
Annie Get Your Gun (Merman)
New Girl in Town
Gentlemamn Prefer Blondes
Miss Liberty

Performers T shirt and Hat
Original Broadway Cast Poster of CARRIE, framed

[jacobp]

Posted: 9/24/13 at 3:21pm

Double Post Updated On: 9/24/13 at 03:21 PM

[ArtMan]

Posted: 9/24/13 at 9:58pm

Marianne2, promotional cds are sent out by the labels even to cd stores. I have a promotional Book of Morman cd that was given to me by my friend who is the Manager of an FYE. A promotional cd will have a hole drilled in the upc code or a sticker indicating it is promotional. Sometimes a slit on the jewel case. Sometimes the actual cd will say promotional. 99.9% of the time it is the same exact item as a non-promotional, so there really is no added value. On rare occasions, you may have a promotional cd sent out, does not get favorable response, and the tracks are scrapped . Now a promotional cd like that would be worth something to a collector. Since it would be rarer.

[mikem]

Posted: 9/24/13 at 10:18pm

Cape Twirl of Doom, thanks for the info about the Glass Menagerie auction items! One more question: did they say anything about what was going to happen at the Wicked 10th Anniversary performance? I saw on the Broadway Cares site that someone bid $7000 for tickets to the show and the after-party, which seems crazy unless something special is happening.

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

Posted: 9/25/13 at 12:53am

Nope, they didn't say anything about anything special happening, just that former cast members will be at the party.

The saddest item auctioned was a T-shirt worn by Tom Hanks in Lucky Guy. It sold for, wait for it... $500. (Starting bid was $400.) Ouch. Nothing like the $50,000 Hugh Jackman shirt.

[E.Davis]

Posted: 9/25/13 at 10:06am

Or the fact that smash pilot script sold for $3800.

[mikem]

Posted: 9/25/13 at 12:46pm

Cape Twirl, thank you again! I guess that the $7000 for the 10th anniversary of Wicked was just part of the Wicked mania that seemed to be true this year (the broom for $9000, the walk-on went for over $16000 online, an original cast poster went for $1150). Since they are having 2 shows that day and haven't announced anything, I'm guessing that the performance itself is not going to have any special elements. (I hope I'm wrong!)

I'm really surprised that the Lucky Guy shirt only went for $500. I think there was a poster included, which has been going for a few hundred online by itself. I hadn't heard that a Hugh Jackman shirt went for $50,000 -- that's crazy!!!!

[broadway_show_fan]

Posted: 9/25/13 at 2:09pm

I think the expensive Hugh Jackman tank was from another year.

None of the auction items went crazy-high this year. Last year there were Streisand tickets/meet-and-greet and a red-carpet premiere of the Les Miserables movie, and both those auction lots went for $30k+ if I'm not mistaken.

[loliveve]

Posted: 9/25/13 at 3:32pm

mikem- there is only 1 show the day of the anniversary. Though it's a Wednesday, Wicked has been doing either a matinee OR evening show on Wednesdays since a Sunday evening performance was added. That said, I wonder whether or not there will be anything special because the producers did pull most of the tickets but there haven't been any announcements.

Anyhow, I've loved reading the items people have found at the flea market!


Updated On: 9/25/13 at 03:32 PM

[broadway_show_fan]

Posted: 9/25/13 at 3:56pm

I forgot to add that I also got a small section of the matilda set - 2 small white books with a touch of yellow.

[joeyinpa]

Posted: 9/25/13 at 7:35pm

I got some pretty cool stuff. Window cards from Chicago (multi stars pics), Merchant of Venice, Beautiful Thing, The Shape of Things, Cock, People in the Picture, Red, The Goat (Sally Field), Hands on a Hardbody, The Exonerated, Irenas Vow, La Boheme, Picnic,Is He Dead?, Saturn Returns, Saturday Night Fever, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Michael Cerveris), a signed OBC Cinderella, a signed OBC White Christmas and I splurged on a signed Trip to Bountiful window card. I also got a really nice bound script for Not About Nightingales, a 33 Variations script and a biography of Mary Wickes. Plus 4 window card frames for $20! I enjoyed myself.

[broadwaycam]

Posted: 9/25/13 at 10:35pm

I just looked online at the merchandise section of the Pippin website and realized the Pippin t-shirt that I bought at the flea market for $7 is the one they sell online and at the theater for $30. The table selling them only had two when I got mine.

[JuanValjean72]

Posted: 9/25/13 at 11:53pm

some of my favorite finds were a vocal selections book from Sondheim's Passion for $5, a Curtains Original Cast Album CD for $5, and a handful of plays from Dramatists for $1 each, and the original cast albums of Les Miserables & You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown for $5. :)

[ClumsyDude15]

Posted: 9/26/13 at 5:56am

- How to Succeed track jacket - $20.
- Invitation to the Banquet signed by the cast of Cinderella - $5. (I got this just as the table was closing, and it had been priced originally at $40 dollars).
- Bring It On opening night tote bag - $5. (Haggled it down from $10).
- Ghost cast recording - $2.
- Elf cast recording - $2.
- A Christmas Story souvenir program - $5.
- Photo with Corey Cott at the Newsies table - $10.
- Cupcake from the table with all the kids working - $2.
- A Dinosaurs F*ck yeah t-shirt from Triassic Parq - $1.
- Bookmark made by the kids of Matilda - $5.
- A bracelet made by the Ivankas in Once - $5.
- Buttons from the Rent off-Broadway production - Free.
- Telecharge "Star" sunglasses - Free.
- A set of Glee pins - Free.
- Catch Me If You Can cast recording - Free.
- Wildcats/High School Musical pencils - Free.


I will say things did seem overpriced, but I hadn't really gone in with any major items I wanted and had a budget of $80 set for myself, and I didn't spend over my budget and got some really great items overall. Despite not really seeing a whole lot I wanted, I had a great time just seeing people I knew, and enjoying the gorgeous (albeit slightly windy) day.

Updated On: 9/26/13 at 05:56 AM

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 9/26/13 at 12:25pm

The past few years at the flea market haven't turned up the wealth of unique items that I'd found at the tables in previous years, but I always somehow manage to find at least one pretty cool curiosity. I put a big dent in my window card collection. Found some rare ones, like the original Off-Broadway Reefer Madness, the Charlie Brown revival (which I paid $5 to have Lippa sign), Bat Boy (signed by Christopher Gattelli), and the Curtains poster with the full credits.

My best finds, however, were an In the Heights libretto signed by Quiera Alegria Hudes and Lin-Manuel Miranda for $20 at the Dramatists Guild table, and a pair of signed charcoal sketches (one of The Boatman and one of The Old Woman) hand-drawn onstage by Daniel Evans during the Sunday in the Park revival for $10 a piece at the Once table.

[RobinM]

Posted: 9/27/13 at 10:49am

Did anyone buy the giant stuffed alpaca?

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 9/27/13 at 10:52am

I thought it was a llama. Anyway, someone did. When I walked by it later in the day, there was a sign on it saying SOLD.

[MimiJudith]

Posted: 9/27/13 at 11:00am

Haha, you're probably right that it was a llama. I wanted to buy it but had no idea how I'd get it home or what I'd do with it once I schlepped it to my apartment. I wonder how much it went for.