The Gift of Broadway (Christmas Gift Thread)

[quizking101]

The Gift of Broadway (Christmas Gift Thread)#1

Posted: 12/13/10 at 2:47pm

Post here what Broadway shows or related merchandise you got as a present or presents for your respective holiday. (I know it's a little early).

To start it off,

I got tix to BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON! (for this Saturday matinee).

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Updated On: 12/25/10 at 02:47 PM

[rmusic11322]

The Gift of Broadway#2

Posted: 12/13/10 at 2:53pm

My mom told me that my ticket to [title of show] at George Street, last weekend, was an early present.

[ahhrealmonsters]

The Gift of Broadway#2

Posted: 12/13/10 at 4:49pm

"Finishing the Hat"

[quizking101]

The Gift of Broadway#3

Posted: 12/24/10 at 7:08am

BUMP!!!

(Happy Christmas Eve!)

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[dramamama611]

The Gift of Broadway#4

Posted: 12/24/10 at 7:49am

Spiderman and The Importance of Being Earnest this weekend. (My xmas present to me. And my Channukah present to me.)


Merry Christmas to all.

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[ClapYo'Hands]

The Gift of Broadway#5

Posted: 12/24/10 at 8:04am

It's not Broadway, but my present to myself was tickets to the West-End production of Oliver!

[Mark_E]

The Gift of Broadway#6

Posted: 12/24/10 at 9:54am

Mum and Dad are paying £200 towards my trip to NYC next year.

Just treated myself to Frankenstein and Rocket to the Moon tickets yesterday too (although they were only £5 each!)

[quizking101]

The Gift of Broadway#7

Posted: 12/24/10 at 10:23am

An addendum to my post:

When I was in NY with my Aunt on Dec 4th (to do the Christmas stuff), we went to Theatre Circle and for Christmas, I picked out 4 plays

1) GYPSY - the libretto
2) Lips Together, Teeth Apart
3) Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
4) The Ritz

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[wickedfan11]

The Gift of Broadway#8

Posted: 12/25/10 at 7:26am

*Be a Broadway Star (board game)
*Hair: The Story Behind the Show that Defined a Generation
*The Scottsboro Boys: Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording
*Into the Woods: Original Broadway Cast Recording
*A Little Night Music: Original Broadway Cast Recording
*Broadway Musicals: The Biggest Hit and Flop of the Season- 1959-2009
*Sondheim! The Birthday Concert

I plan on ordering the Passion DVD with a gift card, as well.
Updated On: 12/25/10 at 07:26 AM

[broadwaybound0632]

The Gift of Broadway#9

Posted: 12/25/10 at 7:40am

1) Les Mis (OLC) I've had the OBC forever and realized I needed this one as well
2) Everyday Rapture CD
3) Tickets to Opening Preview of Anything Goes
4) Tickets to How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
5) Tickets to Next to Normal National Tour in Minneapolis
6) Glee Season One on DVD
7) Signed Promises Promises Poster with Kristin, Sean, Katie's signatures
Pippin on DVD
9) Company Revival DVD
10) Sunday in the Park with George Score
11) Company Score
I'll update when I see my brother and sister

[AvenueQResident]

The Gift of Broadway#10

Posted: 12/25/10 at 8:26am

Glee: Season One (DVD)
Disney's Beauty and the Beast (DVD/Blu Ray)
Disney's Fantasia (DVD/Blu Ray)
Into The Woods (OBC)
A Chorus Line (New Broadway Cast Recording)
The Last 5 Years (OBC)
Kerry Ellis: Anthems (CD)

EDIT: Promises Promises (New Broadway Cast Recording), thanks to an Amazon gift certificate!

Everything in life...is only for now.

Updated On: 12/26/10 at 08:26 AM

[Annas_Priest]

The Gift of Broadway#11

Posted: 12/25/10 at 9:00am

My parents gave me a trip to NYC that we just got back from (December 19th-23rd)! We are from South Carolina and there are five kids in my family so it's hard for us to have money for big trips! But my parents have been saving up and paid for the ENTIRE trip (travel, a suit at the Weston, food, souvenirs, EVERYTHING) without using credit! All cash! With money from them and my Grandparents I saw Next to Normal on the 20th and took my little Brothers (15 and 12) to see American Idiot on the 21st (they where enchanted by it)! LOVED both shows!

Today I got a Broadway Calendar for 2011, Finishing the Hat, the newest Playbill Broadway Year Book, The Broadway Musical Quiz Book, a red American Idiot T-shirt, Tickets to Next to Normal on tour, and Tickets to the Lion King Tour with my entire family!

AMAZING Christmas! So blown away! So blessed!


Updated On: 12/25/10 at 09:00 AM

[bwaynews]

The Gift of Broadway#12

Posted: 12/25/10 at 10:46am

I bought tickets to see Elf tonight for myself and my mom :)

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[bwayfan7000]

The Gift of Broadway#13

Posted: 12/25/10 at 10:49am

-Finishing the Hat
-Patti LuPone's Autobiography
-At this Theatre 2010 Updated Edition
-Broadway Musicals: The Biggest Hit and Biggest Flop 1959-2009
-Playbill Yearbook
-Tickets to Billy Elliot on tour

"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim

[quizking101]

The Gift of Broadway#14

Posted: 12/25/10 at 11:00am

Yet another addendum...

*PLAYBILL's At This Theatre: 2010 Update
*Broadway Musicals: The Greatest Shows Of All Time (Revised/Updated)
*SPRING AWAKENING on Tour - April 2, 2010 - State Theatre (New Brunswick, NJ)

Oh yeah, and the grande dame of them all...

*TICKETS TO WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN - January 2, 2010, Center Orch-Row L-113 and 114!

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[husk_charmer]

The Gift of Broadway#15

Posted: 12/25/10 at 1:41pm

From a friend I got a big box of playbills, including a Fade Out/Fade In from the Boston try-out. They also sent souvenir brochures for all the London Norma Desmond's and Love Never Dies.

My parents got me the Carol Channing gospel album...which has been a true treasure and delight from beginning to end.

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The Gift of Broadway#16

Posted: 12/25/10 at 1:57pm

-Patti LuPone: A Memoir (on CD)
-Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson OBCR
-Promises, Promises revival recording
-Playbill Ultimate Binder (my old one is completely stuffed!)
-framed Fiddler on the Roof window card

"You have two kinds of shows on Broadway – revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for The Lion King a year in advance, and essentially a family... pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is – a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar.... I don't think the theatre will die per se, but it's never going to be what it was.... It's a tourist attraction." Stephen Sondheim

[BellatrixxLestrangee]

The Gift of Broadway#17

Posted: 12/25/10 at 2:11pm

-Finishing the Hat
-A Playbill binder
-Evita Highlights CD
-Tickets to South Pacific at the Kennedy Center!

You gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for? -BP.

[bwayphreak234]

The Gift of Broadway#18

Posted: 12/25/10 at 3:05pm

-Tickets to a professional theatre's productions of Avenue Q and Nine
- Tickets to the national tour of Spring Awakening

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

[iluvtheatertrash]

The Gift of Broadway#19

Posted: 12/25/10 at 3:07pm

Spiderman tickets, Sondheim's FINISHING THE HAT and the Evening Primrose DVD. Huzzah!

"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman

[AwesomeDanny]

The Gift of Broadway#20

Posted: 12/25/10 at 3:18pm

Broadway Star board game
4 by Sondheim
Race
Enron
Scottsboro Boys OOBCR
Sondheim: the Birthday concert
Evening Primrose

[BroadwayGuy12]

The Gift of Broadway#21

Posted: 12/25/10 at 3:21pm

"Finishing the Hat"
Playbill Binder
Tickets to American Idiot for tomorrow and the NY Philharmonic's Company in April

[kikki327]

The Gift of Broadway#22

Posted: 12/25/10 at 5:02pm

-Be a Broadway Star board game (so much fun!!)
-Come Fly Away poster, t-shirt, program and keychain
-Glee trivia game (does that count?)
-a few weeks ago my aunt took me to see Mamma Mia!

[azeller]

The Gift of Broadway#23

Posted: 12/25/10 at 9:13pm

-Broadway Wine Glass charms
-Autographed "At this Theatre"
-Playbill yearbook
-ALNM cast recording
-Elf mug & program
-Wii Dance on Broadway

"Let's admit one thing right upfront: With the possible exception of Bernadette Peters, not everyone stays young and cute forever." (NYPost 2/2/05)

[TalkinLoud]

The Gift of Broadway#24

Posted: 12/25/10 at 9:23pm

My girlfriend got me the perfect trifecta: Sondheim Birthday Concert Blu Ray, Finishing the Hat, and Sondheim on Sondheim OBCR.

Also got a window card frame for my Scarlett Johansson signed View from the Bridge poster.