The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction#1
Posted: 5/24/12 at 12:05pmI'm thinking of starting a kickstarter campaign to hire PalJoey to Live Tweet the event of the season.
The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction#2
Posted: 5/24/12 at 12:17pmI'm just reminded by that scene in A Christmas Carol with people purchasing Scrooge's belongings at a fraction of their cost while talking about how glad they are he's dead.
The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction#2
Posted: 5/24/12 at 12:38pmI've got my eye on the Nick & Nora paperweight.
The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction#3
Posted: 5/24/12 at 12:45pm
I've put in some small bids for a tschotchke or two. But only things I remember.
Meanwhile, if he were still alive and this were someone else's estate auction, you know what he would say?
"This only proves that he spent his ENTIRE life amassing TRASH. Those things were tacky when he bought them--AND THEY'RE STILL TACKY NOW THAT HE'S DEAD."
Joined: 12/31/69
The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction#6
Posted: 5/24/12 at 1:40pmI'm going to be in the city to see the new John Kander workshop at The Vineyard that day, and I'm seriously considering stopping in to see this interesting "theatrical event."
The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction#7
Posted: 5/24/12 at 3:14pmAll the more reason for PalJoey to tweet from there.
The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction#8
Posted: 5/24/12 at 3:52pmI'll pay $20 for all of the paperweights. How many of those could someone need?
The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction#9
Posted: 5/24/12 at 3:54pmThey were opening-night presents. It was a "thing."
The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction#10
Posted: 5/24/12 at 3:58pmWould someone let us know who bids on Bernadette's gift of the Gypsy script? I'm forseeing a bidding war like we've never seen before. Who will end up with that?
The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction#12
Posted: 5/24/12 at 4:04pm
Please go, PalJoey, PLEASE!
The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction#13
Posted: 5/24/12 at 4:11pm
As Arthur would say, "I haven't got the time. Nor the inclination."
I put in my absentee bids. They'll let me know if I won.
The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction#14
Posted: 5/24/12 at 4:18pm
"Well, it won't be Patti LuPone."
Oh I don't know. Didn't Bette Davis buy up Joan Crawford's porn movies?
I would think Patti would mount it on her wall as an "Anything you can do, I can do better" monument.
The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction#15
Posted: 5/24/12 at 4:21pmNot to put a damper on the fun, but are the proceeds going to some sort of charity? Cause if not, the Estate is as c*nty as the man.
The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction#16
Posted: 5/24/12 at 4:29pmHaving to pay a 29% premium and sales tax on everything puts some of this stuff out of my league.
The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction#17
Posted: 5/24/12 at 5:22pm
Arthur would probably have replied to Robbie:
"Charity begins at HOME. If you don't want my tschotchkes, DON'T BID."
The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction#18
Posted: 6/2/12 at 10:13am
Well, the tension is mounting. The auction is over at 11 AM EST and there are several people bidding against me on the two most hotly contested items in the auction:
LOT 1132
Arthur Laurents Poisoned Pen
Pen with which Laurents wrote revisions of West Side Story and three volumes of memoirs.
LOT 739
Arthur Laurents Cup of Bitterness
Ornamental cup from which Laurents drank blood of his collaborators.
The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction#21
Posted: 6/2/12 at 11:13amThey have an app so you can watch it live on the Internet
The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction#22
Posted: 6/2/12 at 11:21am
Arthur was always charming, if too opinionated about things he shouldn't have been, to me, and the last Dramatists Guild "Legacy Project" interview he taped was very touching, but too many paperweights...really.
If anyone goes, please report. :)
The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction#23
Posted: 6/2/12 at 11:27am
5 glass paperweights going once, twice, three times for $10, 20, 30, 40 50, 60.
Sold for $60
The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction#24
Posted: 6/2/12 at 12:28pm
A Louis Comfort Tiffany Footed Salt Cellar just went for $100. A Louis Comfort Tiffany Favrile glass bowl went for $600.
A Revere sterling silver bowl, inscribed "La Cage" asking price $500--reduced to $300. Sold for $450.
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