Your Most Prized Theater Item/ memborabilia

I have two items:

The first an Will Rogers Follies Playbill, It's the first show I ever saw on Broadway. The only thing I remember from it was the massive dance break in Willamania.



The second is an Chicago playbill and program from either 1975-1976 that I got for pretty cheap off of Ebay. Not do I enjoy looking at it but I also like looking at the old advertisements, I know it's kind of odd.



So, what are your favorite items.

One of mine is probably my FUN HOME Full Original Broadway cast signed Pride Playbill.

Lightbulbs from the runways of various productions of HELLO, DOLLY!

Mine would be my Club Elphaba Window Card Featuring some Glindas from Wicked. Of my MANY signed posters this is easily my favorite, and I love seeing their face when I ask a New Elphie to sign it. 11 Elphabas, 7 Glindas and various other notable cast members so far!.

1st picture: The Chicago National Tour cast : Jan. 2015 in San Antonio, TX (with Terra C and Bianca Marroquin) signed this programme, along with a signed coffee mug. I was touched. 2nd picture: I got to visit Miss Patti in her dressing room during her run in "Sweeney" on Broadway. 3rd picture: She signed this Norma Desmond AIWNSG photo.

Updated On: 5/30/16 at 10:24 PM

My playbills and memories of over 50 plus years of theater going. It includes the Good,the Bad & the Ugly of shows.

Signed playbill from Jennifer Hudson when I met her backstage. Probably the most memorable theater experience ever.

The Hamilton window card that I got signed by every OBC member at the stage door the first time I went to the show. Sometimes I glance over at it and just let a single teardrop fall down my cheek.

The Complete Phantom of the Opera (25th Anniversary Edition) Signed/personalized by Ramin Karimloo

2009 revival cast recording of A Little Night Music signed by Stephen Sondheim, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angela Lansbury and the entire cast

She Loves Me (current revival) windowcard signed by the principals, plus Scott Ellis and Sheldon Harnick (I've admired Scott and Sheldon's work for so long and I love that I have that)

On The 20th Century Playbill signed by the entire company

Patti LuPone signed memoir

• Annie Get Your Gun playbill and CD signed by Bernadette
• Drowsy Chaperone CD signed by original cast
• Wicked playbill signed by Idina and Kristin. It's from the performance right after Idina won the Tony - won the lottery and sat front row
• I inherited part of my great-grandmother's old playbill collection. Mostly shows that I had never heard of before, but she did have the original "My Fair Lady" playbill, I believe.
• Old theatre magazine from when Bernadette was in Dames at Sea. My mentor knew that I loved looking through his precious copy, and out of the blue he mailed it to me as a gift years later :)
• Light in the Piazza program signed by Kelli. I only got this signed last year. I chatting with Kelli at The King and I stage door about how Piazza changed my sister's life (she has a learning disability). The most meaningful stage door conversation ever.

I have a personalized signed copy of the original cast album of Floyd Collins, my favourite musical. I met Adam Guettel before a Piazza matinee at Shaw Festival and he graciously inscribed it with: "Thanks wonderful Michael. You make my work possible"

It's proudly on display in my house.

I have the opening night bill from the Met's MAHAGONNY framed with Lotte Lenya's signature. It was the first show I did in New York (as a super), and we met during rehearsals. Another treasure is my program from HELLO, DOLLY! in 1968 signed by Pearl Bailey and Cab Calloway. It was my first Broadway show and she kissed me from the runway during her curtain call. I still have the lipstick smears in my program. I guess I would also have to include my signed Hirschfeld of FOLLIES.

-My signed copy of Chenoweth's autobiography and the photo with her from the signing



-My Everyday Rapture window card signed by SRS