after a show closes...

They find a home.
This past Halloween, one of the storage units where old costumes were, was giving away bags of B'way costumes from old shows for a very good price.

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Tours, other companies around the world, auctions....

Cats had a "garage sale" of sorts.

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Yeah, sometimes donations, sometimes other productions, sometimes storage. It all depends.

when i was in nyc this summer, it was the week after "gypsy" closed. we were walking around and passed the shubert, so i went in and they were taking apart sets and stuff. haha i begged them to sell/give me something..anything. they just laughed

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Yeah really, they could be putting that stuff to much better uses then burning and destroying sets, props and costumes. All I can say is that if and when RENT closes they'd better not destroy a piece of that set. Those things could really raise alot of money for charities and donations etc.

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"Or, if you're Patti LuPone, you steal them."

HAHAHAHA what did she steal?

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Patti admits to stealing costumes frequently. In Patti LuPone Live, she did a whole bit about it: "I steal costumes from every show I'm in. I steal costumes, I steal jewelry, I steal wigs. I'm surprised I leave the scenery." And, as this concert was performed just before she went to London to do Sunset Boulevard, she then added, "I can't wait to get my hands on that Norma drag!" During one of her appearances on Rosie's talk show she said that it all started during Evita, because the jewels she wore in one scene were originally Ethel Merman's jewels from Call Me Madam, and she just couldn't bear the thought that one of these days somebody would probably just trash them, not knowing their history.

Sorry for the semi-highjack. We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread...

You can probably pick up a cheap surf board out on 49th Street in a couple of days.

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A lot of things live in large storage compartments. When I did the ten year anniversary tour of Sunday in the Park with George, we used all the original Broadway costumes - it was very exciting to wear a suit with Charles Kimbrough's nametag sewn into it.

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After the bway Seussical closed, I'm sure much of it was put towards the Nat'l tour, but not everything... After the final performance, Kevin Chamberlin & Ann Harada could be seen passing out the pink & green 'clovers' from the set to fans at the stage door. They also had feathers from Gertrude's one-feathered-tail, and the wooden 'berries' that Gertrude ate to grow her tail. :)

i'm pretty sure actors can stipulate in their contracts to keep their costumes- when sebastian bach was on mtv cribs he showed them all of the jekyll/hyde costumes in his closet saying he got to keep them

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