What Did You Get at the BCEFA Broadway Flea Market? — Page 6

I loved the experience! Having it indoors was like i was Theatre-con!

I went with Trekkie2. :)

Doubt script - signed by Cherry Jones! - $20
Doubt poster - $20
reasons to be pretty window card - $5
Ragtime window card - $10
Equality Pin - $1

Playbills: (most are 3 for $1)
Caroline, or Change
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Angels in America
Lesbian Vampires of Sodom (I couldn't resist the title!)
Passing Strange
Assassins
reasons to be pretty
The Merchant of Venice

Phew, it was a good day!

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I was smart/not so smart. I got off work and caught the last 1/2 hour when the auction was ending.

For a grand total of $4:

2 Little Mermaid t-shirts
1 Little Mermaid souvenirs
Noel Coward Plays
a bag full of Mermaid pins
20 playbills including The Ritz, Make Me A Song, and Gypsy, etc.

They were HANDING stuff out. Selling windowcards for a dollar. The girl told me to take the whole box of playbills for a $1 and books were being given out for free. I had a really bad interaction at this one table. There were Broadway records and I found this couple fishing through the bins. I asked, "Are these free?" and they told me yes. So I'm fishing through and I grab Raul Julia in NINE and put it in my bag. The cashier lady SCREAMS at me. Practically SCREAMS. "We're closing!!!! GO AWAY!!" and I gave it back and explained what the couple told me. Dreadful. Otherwise, it was a great experience. Especially the boys at the Mermaid table. Pretty cute.

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Maybe I should take a page out of whoever-that-was-up-above's book and say that if anybody has something they'd sell to someone who wasn't able to make it, let me know. Particularly interested in Equus and Billy Elliot stuff...looking forward to a time when I can actually go to these things...

Yeah, that's understandable.

BillFinn- You said Little Mermaid souvenirs, what was it?

They were selling souvenir programs for a mere $5, all of the names from the cast board in the lobby, signed photos from Sherie and Sierra, a bunch of pins and tattoos, and some robes which disappeared quickly.

Updated On: 9/28/09 at 12:44 AM

I had an amazing time! Let's face it, even when it was on 44th Street, the crowds were still almost unbearable.

I picked up some pretty epic stuff:

-"Falsettos" square of the old gypsy quilt (it's almost a blanket itself!)- $20
-"Rent" OBC sign-in sheet + a note from Michael Greif- $10
-"Blithe Spirit"- Angela Lansbury signed costume sketch- $50
-"Gypsy"- Patti Lupone signed costume sketch- $50
-"Rags" concert poster- cast signed + Joseph Stein & Charles Strouse- $5
-"Virginia Woolf" script signed by Edward Albee- $20
-"Little Dog Laughed" script signed by Douglas Carter Beane- $20

-"Sweeney Todd"- Mrs. Lovett apron- $5
-"Sweeney Todd"- Mrs. Lovett hat- $1.50
-"Xanadu" hoodie and knit cap- $20
-"Lestat" shirt- $5
-"Glory Days" shirt- $5
-"A Catered Affair" hat- $3
-"Urinetown" hat- $3
-"Dracula" hat- free
-"Nine" hat- $1.50
-Set of 4 Playbill cocktail glasses (1994 season)- $1
-Set of 4 Playbill cocktail glasses (1997 season)- $1
-Set of 4 Playbill cocktail glasses (1999 season)- $1
-Playbill Yearbook '04-'05- $1
-Playbill Yearbook '05-'06- $1
-Playbill 'At This Theater' hardcover book- $1
-'How We Did It: The Producers' hardcover book- free!
-"The Fantasticks" ceramic mug- $1
-"Nine" keychain- $1
-"Glory Days" magnet- $1
-"The Full Monty" luggage tag- $1
-"Billy Elliot" reusable bag- $1
-4 Playbill Radio reusable bags- free

2-2:50 and 3-3:50 Celebrity tables
-"Into the Woods" LP signed by Bernadette Peters
-"Mack and Mabel" LP signed by Bernadette Peters
-"Bye, Bye Birdie" LP signed by Chita Rivera and Charles Strouse
-"Chicago"- signed by Chita Rivera
-"Ragtime" windowcard signed by Marin Mazzie and Brian Stokes Mitchell
-"Full Monty" windowcard signed by Jason Daniely and Patrick Wilson
-"Titanic" windowcard signed by Victoria Clark
-"Rent" windowcard signed by Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal
-"Sunday in the Park" LP signed by Dana Ivey
-"Full Monty" hat signed by Jason Daniely
-"Rent" DVD cover signed by Anthony Rapp
-Sheet music signed by Kevin Chamberlain, Kate Baldwin, Quentin Earl Darrington, Marin Mazzie, Christiane Noll, and Victoria Clark
-"Ragtime" Kennedy Center Playbill signed by Steggert, Darrington, Noll, and Umoh
-"She Loves Me" Huntington Theater Playbill signed by Kate Baldwin

Photos with:
-Brian Stokes Mitchell- $10
-Marin Mazzie- $10
-Kate Baldwin- $10
-Douglas Carter Beane- $5
-Edward Albee- $4

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Updated On: 9/28/09 at 01:35 AM

Well of course I prefer having the entire thing right in the midst of the theater district, but I'm glad that the show was still able to go on.

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CJR: Since the TKTS table did not do the raffle anymore, were you pretty much guaranteed tickets as long as you gave them $20? And it was more get what you blindly pick? Or was there still a chance you wouldn't get any tickets?

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Would have loved to buy some bigger items, but it's just too difficult to take them back on the plane. So I just got a bunch of Playbills and programs:

Programs
Cabaret (Roundabout revival) $1
H2$ (Broderick & Mullally with photo insert of John Stamos) $5
Spelling Bee $0.50
Rock 'n' Roll $0.50
Sweet Charity $10
West Side Story (current revival) $10
9 To 5 (LA try-out) $5

Playbills: dozens at various prices. Some highlights:
Wicked (5 Year Anniversary)
Hairspray (Closing Night)
Rent (Closing Night)
A New Brain
Fully Committed (Roger Bart cover)
The Wild Party (LaChiusa as well as Lippa)
The Threepenny Opera
Glory Days
In The Heights (Off-Broadway)
Passing Strange (Off-Broadway)
...

By the middle/end of the day the small tickets that you ripped apart were gone and you got to pay $20 to pick a ticket envelope out-so you were going to get something-but not early on. That didn't really make sense to me-shouldn't they have known how many prizes they had and then put that many winning tickets in the big box?

I did pretty well overall. I don't have the patience to root through the Playbill bins and boxes. Silly, I know. Still, my loot:

Signed South Pacific revival cast recording (birthday gift for my mom) - $25
Bottle of "pills" (tic tacs) from next to normal, signed by Alice - $15
The Little Mermaid window card, program, button, pen and hat - $5
The Little Mermaid window card for my sister - $1
Disney's On The Record program and long-sleeved t-shirt - $5
When You Wish workshop (Disney) hat - $3
White Christmas key chain, 9 to 5 little note pad, and The Marvelous Wonderettes, Speed the Plow, Coram Boy magnets from Playbill's table - $5

Total spent on my own $54. Not bad considering I hadn't planned on getting the CD, but it's a birthday gift I don't have to shop for later. :)

A friend bought me
The Rocky Horror Show original revival cast window card - $1
Rocky Horrow, and Swan Lake magnets, Lestat message pad, Spsmalot first aid kit (and a magnet for The Mambo Kings for him) - $1
and he bought me a picture with a Tony Award - $10

Was it as fun as it is outdoors? Not really? Were there issues? Of course. But as someone else said in this thread (and I said on others), rescheduling an event of this size in NYC is next to impossible, so they made the best of it.

Yes, at one point the fire department told them they had to stop people entering and have a certain number of people out before they could start recounting exits and letting that number of people back in. (Like, if 25 left, they could let 25 in; but only after the previously named number (I didn't hear that one) had left the building.) But the event was never "closed".

I really needed some window card frames from Triton but I knew with it being moved indoors that it was going to be a madhouse so I just didn't go. Of course, hearing that someone got 5 frames for $40 makes me want to kick myself in the teeth.

If I knew at the end of the day I would have been guaranteed some tickets from the ticket pulling thing, I would have gone back. Oh well.

I know not every table would have thought of this or cared, but what would have helped with playbills is if they were at least alphabetized by the show's title. One table did that, which is how I found my Class Act playbill so quickly. I gave up at other tables if they were too difficult to search through.

And, the really stupid table set up of the day was the West Side Story table. I saw an open door very close to there, which is where I thought they said the stairs to go up were. Well, there were three tables set up, so if you were there, you couldn't reach the exit if there was a need to. It was also ridiculously crowded in that corner. I didn't even look at much there because of that.

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