What Did You Get at the BCEFA Broadway Flea Market? — Page 2

I'm back. Wow...

So damn crowded and terrible lighting and air. I was thinking of returning at 6:30pm to get the end-of-day bargains but really not worth the headache.

And frustrated at Playbill for NOT having their 2008-09 Yearbook available (it's not published til October)

Inspite of it all, I did manage to find some great deals and finds!

HARDBACK BOOKS ($5.00 each, but I got 1 free)
How Does The Show Go On? (Schumacher)
The Producers: How We Did It (Brooks & Meehan)

WINDOW CARDS (3 for $1.00)
Sunday in the Park with George
Fuerza Bruta
Lestat
Rent

PLAYBILLS (5 for $1.00)
Company (Revival, black & white)
Journey's End (OBC, color)
Kiss Me Kate (OBC, black & white)
Les Miserables (Revival, color)
Frost/Nixon (OBC, color)
Grey Gardens (OBC, color)
Urinetown (OBC, black & white)

STUFF
Equality Now! Broadway Impact Pin ($1.00)
Cry-Baby Opening Night LP Gift, signed by Dir. Mark Brokaw ($5.00)
'Prom Queen' Marvelous Wonderettes TShirt (Free)

TOTAL SPENT:
$15.00

Updated On: 9/27/09 at 03:29 PM

Definitely crowded, hot, and badly lit!

Only bought CDs, mostly from a table where they were $5 or 3 for $10:
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
THE LAST SESSION
STEEL PIER
PLAY ON
THE LIFE
MINNIE'S BOYS
HALLELUJAH BABY
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
THE BODY BEAUTIFUL
A CHORUS LINE (revival cast)
FORBIDDEN HOLLYWOOD
JOHN BARROWMAN - Reflections from Broadway

Also picked up:
$3 - NINE (2-disc OBC)
$2 - MY FAIR LADY (OBC)
$5 - THE WOMAN IN WHITE (2-disc OLC)

Since I live right around the corner, I might head back for another quick look, now that the matinee crowd are in their seats.

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It was deffinetly overcrowded and im sure it has to be some fire hazard but I had a good time and got some really great stuff!!

First off was my impulse purchase. Which was a box from Avenue Q (One that sings during the song "Purpose")


Box:150$


Bea Authur Window card and playbill (I am a HUGE Bea fan)

40$

Faith Prince signed Ursula Promo shot.

20$

Lot of playbills from 2008-2009

10$

Playbills (Including 2 signed)

Cats 5$
Equus 3 (each)
Liza 1$
Your welcome america signed by will ferrell 40$
Patti signed Gypsy 20$

Avenue Q tshirt

10$

And last but not least... I wanted this since I saw it on the website

Signed window card and cd By Liza 240$ in auction


Overall I spent a little more than 500$ which I actually do not regret. I brought some amazing stuff. It all goes for an amazing cause. And because I cashed a change bucket I had lying around my house and got 140 bucks worth :p

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If you could sell a box for $150, wouldn't you?

saveusmike, where did you get the Avenue Q tshirt? I saw the boxes and wanted one so bad but there was no way I was paying 150$.
Since I've never been to the flea market before, I didn't know if that was a "normal" crowd. Boy, you couldn't even move!!
I feel terrible for those who had to be at tables selling all day in on the bottom floor.
Was there something wrong with the lighting because it was mighty dark in there!!
Rob, it was nice meeting you and also another BWW member
I was surprised that there wasn't more stuff at the Next To Normal table.


At the Avenue Q table, there was a deck of cards. When I asked how much they were, they told me 20$. I went back about 30 minutes later and they were 5$, I bought them

I also purchased:
RENT poster- 2$
Next to normal magnet-3$
Spelling Bee tshirt- 5$
Spelling Bee mousepad- 4$ (I think)
Everything in life is only for now pin-1$ (At the Avenue Q table, the pin was 5$, I found it in the dollar bin at another table.
Playbill show pad of paper- 5$

The playbill prices varied tremendously. I found the exact same playbills in different areas- 1 area had them for 3$ each, another had them for 10 cents each.

The playbills I got:

Wicked *Original Cast*
A Chorus Line 1998
Broadway Bears X11
Pajama Game
You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
Titanic- 1998
M. Butterfly
Thoroughly Modern Millie

Did anyone do the pie throwing contest?

I'm glad I went and experienced it; I'm also very glad to be back home.

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Updated On: 9/27/09 at 04:39 PM

SweetQ I found the shirt at another Table. Just randomly thrown down.

The Avenue Q table didnt have alot which was upsetting.

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TOTALLY jealous of the person who got that original Equus playbill! (saveusmike) I have never been to the flea market, but it seems liek just my kind of thing...one of these years...

I have to say I went around 3, and ... it wasn't crowded at all? No one was in the basement and they were giving things away for free.

Tale of Two Cities - $5 outside the theatre poster
DRACULA, the musical Hat - Free
Tons of playbills - $10 / Most Free

Spent : $15

I kept looking for Tale of Two Cities stuff and all I could find were the window card !


Pli1018: I saw two of them - one was going for $10 (along with a Spamalot and Woman in White windowcard also for $10 each) and I don't remember how much the other was.

I heard it was a mad house and Roseland is all stairs so I missed it this year. I usually find great things there but I could not deal with the crowds.

I wish they would have had a rain date. Hope they did well.

Apple Tree hat $1? I'm jealous.

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I spent $24 and got:

Little Mermaid window card, necklace, and Beauty and the Beast tshirt for my kid ($7)
Random bag with a Sunday in the Park with George hat signed by Harry Groener ($5)
Mrs. Lovett's Meat Pies hat ($5)
Vinyl Merrily We Roll Along album with the libretto($1)
Playbill tshirt ($5)
Equality Now button ($1)

Overall, I'm okay with what I ended up with. I wasn't hoping to find anything too crazy and I just enjoy walking around and seeing all the things for sale and interacting with the volunteers. I agree that it was totally too hot and cramped in there. I am disappointed that the celebrity table was sequestered upstairs. I didn't even bother trying to go up there.

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Updated On: 9/27/09 at 06:07 PM

I was in NYC yesterday and spent the night before returning home. I used to do the Flea Market during the early years, but it got so damned crowded that I gave up some time ago. From the sound of what happened this year, I am SOOOOOOOOO glad I didn't go.

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