The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#1The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
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.
#2The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
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.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#2The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
Posted: 5/24/12 at 12:38pmI've got my eye on the Nick & Nora paperweight.
#3The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
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."
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#6The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
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."
#7The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
Posted: 5/24/12 at 3:14pmAll the more reason for PalJoey to tweet from there.
#8The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
Posted: 5/24/12 at 3:52pmI'll pay $20 for all of the paperweights. How many of those could someone need?
#9The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
Posted: 5/24/12 at 3:54pmThey were opening-night presents. It was a "thing."
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#10The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
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?
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#12The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
Posted: 5/24/12 at 4:04pm
Please go, PalJoey, PLEASE!
#13The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
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.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#14The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
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.
#15The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
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.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#16The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
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.
#17The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
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."
#18The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
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.
philcrosby
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/04
#21The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
Posted: 6/2/12 at 11:13amThey have an app so you can watch it live on the Internet
#22The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
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. :)
#23The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
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
#24The Arthur Laurents Estate Auction
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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