Unsold Merchandise

[abstract19]

Posted: 8/23/12 at 11:41am

What happens to the merchandise that is not sold when a show closes? Is it sold somewhere online? Maybe at a discount? I collect the souvenir programs from the shows I see and I did not get one from Ghost when I was there. Anyone know where I can pick one up?

Thanks

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/23/12 at 11:44am

A lot of it is sold at the flea market so if you go there in a few weeks you'll find a lot.

[abstract19]

Posted: 8/23/12 at 11:48am

Hadn't thought of that. Sadly, I live out of the area and have a show that day and can't leave. But good thing to note for the future.

Any other ideas?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/23/12 at 11:50am

Ebay

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/23/12 at 11:50am

Try Playbill.com. Their clearance section normally has merchandise from shows that closed. But I'm not sure if you will have to wait a while first or not...

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 8/23/12 at 11:59am

If you know anyone in NYC who can go to the Flea Market, give them a maximum amount of $ you're willing to spend and tell them to go to town and you'll pay them back.

[Ghostfan2]

Posted: 8/23/12 at 12:01pm

I saw the ghost program at the broadway gift shop in the Marriott marquis just a few days ago.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/23/12 at 12:19pm

Get a petition going to demand they release the unsold merchandise!

[ChiChi]

Posted: 8/23/12 at 12:22pm

What can one find at this flea market. I've heard and read about it for years, but I've never been able to get there for it. Do they sell actual set pieces and stuff? Are there people out there who have full sets like those weirdos who have the complete Rock-a-fire Explosion show from Showbiz pizza?

[castlestreet]

Posted: 8/23/12 at 12:31pm

ChiChi- the flea market is just that- you find a mix of everything from CD's, windowcards, souvenirs, playbills, props, records, baked goods, magazines, books, DVDs & VHS- and some junk thrown in here and there for good measure- I never know what to expect when I go, but I always find lots of fun stuff regardless.

[ChiChi]

Posted: 8/23/12 at 12:51pm

I'd probably end up leaving having mortgaged my house, sold my car and promised the first born child I will never have. And then I'd come home with an Annie set...LOL!!!!

No I would never.

[Quiche2]

Posted: 8/23/12 at 4:43pm

My personal favorite thing I ever got at the Flea Market was last year. I visited THE ADDAMS FAMILY booth and got "Grandma's Moles". They are much like fake mustaches, but moles instead of mustaches. They have adhesive on the back so you can stick them on and feel "Unwanted, Mocked, and Tolerated" -- just like Grandma Addams.

[BroadwayStore.com]

Posted: 8/24/12 at 12:11pm

Our website BroadwayStore.com has a lot of merchandise from recently closed shows, much of it at a discount. Though we no longer have the Ghost program.

[grumpyoptimist]

Posted: 8/25/12 at 1:17am

Updated On: 8/25/12 at 01:17 AM

[grumpyoptimist]

Posted: 8/25/12 at 1:18am

At last year's flea market (in which I bought enough stuff I had to have it shipped home) I came dangerously close to buying the "hat" the cast used in the Easter Bonnet competition (see link) in the silent auction. Definitely a one of a kind item. Fortunately, sense prevailed.

https://www2.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumnpics.cfm?colid=230660&photoid=285156

Updated On: 8/25/12 at 01:18 AM

[Vespertine1228]

Posted: 8/25/12 at 11:37am

They will sell literally anything at the flea market. I remember one year I bought a play that Edward Albee signed for me. I also bought a prop from Legally Blonde. The list of who got the big internship that precipitates Elle singing "So Much Better" at the end of the first act. They had dozens of sheets for sale from every performance.

It's the type of thing the flea market makes you think is a good idea to buy. It all goes to a good cause though.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 8/25/12 at 12:02pm

^ Yes. I think I remember at one table one year people could pay money to have someone's grandmother read them part of The Vagina Monologues. I didn't do that, but it's things like that which make this event a lot of fun.

[Pammylicious]

Posted: 8/25/12 at 12:08pm

Last year at the Billy Elliott table, they had 12 Boys who were Billy Elliott at one time or another. It was surreal.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 8/25/12 at 4:53pm

Marianne, that was my show's table in the 2010 Flea Market (crazy that that was already two years ago). We actually made about $50 bucks from that, and it was our director's grandmother

[Marianne2]

Posted: 8/25/12 at 5:21pm

^ That's awesome. It was funny and creative.

[uncageg]

Posted: 8/25/12 at 5:24pm

The flea ,arket is dangerously fun! I went last year for the first time and there was one Playbill I was looking for and found it 5 minutes after I arrived. The next two hours were dangerously fun! I bought a number of items but didn't spend a fortune.

[showchoirguy]

Posted: 8/25/12 at 7:29pm

^ The same with me! I made a little list of memorabilia from shows I wanted and I got about a third of it plus more that I found unexpectedly! Getting more money this year so it's going to be extremely dangerous.

[grumpyoptimist]

Posted: 8/25/12 at 10:48pm

Which raises a good point...kinda like going to the casino, go with a pre-set limit in mind. It's amazing what will seem like a really good idea in the moment. Especially at the live auction {looking away and whistling because none of the stuff I bought last year fits in that category...if you believe that...}

[kermatthews17]

Posted: 8/29/12 at 3:30am

where is this flea market and what days is it around? i would love to check it out one day!

[Marianne2]

Posted: 8/29/12 at 3:58am

^ It's September 23rd this year from 10am-7pm. It's always on 44th street between 8th ave & Broadway and goes into Shubert Alley as well. Though those tables might be in Times Square again this year. Anyone know if that's the case?