looking through parents old stuff

[Aqualline2]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 12:48am

Today I was looking through my mom's old skating c.d.'s (she used to be a skating coach so she has a whole bunch of worldless music and and other random music she uses for programs and carnivals) and I found a ton of broadway c.d.'s like the Original Broadway cast recording for Me and My Girl and the symphonic score to Miss Saigon and Les Mis... It made my day

have you ever looked through your parents old stuff and found tings like that?

[CapnHook]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 12:49am

Just last week I found some LPs, including the original cast recording of PETER PAN. *THAT* made my day!

[allofmylife]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 1:02am

Among my mum's stuff was a program for "ME AND MY GIRL" which she saw as well. At The Victoria Palace in 1937 with Lupino Lane and Teddi St. Denis. And "Leaning on a Lampost" was not in the original production. And Betty Frankiss who played the maneater was a BABE.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 1:10am

I have to wait for my mother to die before she'd let me look through her things.

That can't come soon enough.

[StarStruckGB]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 1:13am

So far I've come across a Miss Saigon program & a Man of la Mancha one from the Raul Julia run,
but I'm still on the move for the Beauty & the Beast program from when we went to my first show.

[Perfectly Marvelous]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 1:16am

I've found programs and such from shows my mom saw when she was in college and worked in the city. I haven't found any hidden Broadway cast recordings yet. Most of the recordings she has, I've been listening to since I was a little kid [and maybe that explains why I love Fiddler On The Roof, West Side Story, and Cabaret so much].

[allofmylife]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 1:32am

Theatrediva90016, I blew milk out of my nose laughing at that comment. The funniest thing I've seen on this site for days. Thank you.

[sing_dance_love]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 1:35am

When i was in Jesus Christ Superstar, my dad came up to me with his original album, and told me how much he listened to it as a teenager and how much it meant to him.

That was a really really good moment.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 1:39am

I found a playbill for The Wiz that my parents had seen at The Paramount in Oakland -- Lillias White was in it! :)

[allofmylife]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 2:08am

Online one day, I was stunned to find a photograph of a production of "Oklahoma" my parents had done in 1955. It was the first time the internet truly surprised me.

[StarStruckGB]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 2:24am

Wow, that's really amazing.
=)!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 2:53am

I just thought of something in my Grandmothers things. It was a picture of her standing center stage at the Hollywood Bowl, singing her guts out.

I was blown away, because she never sang around me. And I still haven't even worked at the Bowl.

[BreakingTheCircle07]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 3:05am

I found my mom's A Little Night Music US touring Playbill from when it played at the Shubert Theatre in Chicago in '78. It's one of my prize collectables.

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[broadway_socialite]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 5:37am

i was going through my grandpa's old stuff (my grandpa had nothing to do with music or anything, so I've no idea why he had this) that we were going to throw out, and I found the randowest thing EVER:

the full score to Paint Your Wagon.

It didn't have the cover, and so i had to do some research to figure our what it was, but its totally falling apart and pretty ancient, but my new prized posession

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 8:53am

I remember when, as a kid, I first found my Mom's gold-cover Playbill from opening night of one of the Broadway shows she was in. Plus all the Western Union telegrams were with it from that same night.

She had told me before a little bit about it, but that was the moment I realized, WOW she really did that.

[JKlock]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 4:03pm

Ive found Les Mis playbills from 1988, M. Butterfly playbill from 1988, and also a Jekyll and Hyde playbill- not sure of the year

[The White Half-Mask]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 4:18pm

My parents had some pretty interesting stuff in their LP/record collection, such as the soundtracks for Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, various James Bond 007 movies, & the Original 1986 London Cast of The Phantom of the Opera. I framed the Phantom one & hung it on my wall.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 4:26pm

The only thing my mother ever gave me was an old souvenir brochure from a production of Fiddler on the Roof. I'm not even sure if that production was even on Broadway. And, best12bars, what show was your mother in?

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 4:58pm

Going thru some personal archives of my folks and coming across an original Opening Night SWEET CHARITY ticket from 1966. It was an oversized gold ticket. $15.00. Orchestra Center Row C. Along with the souvenir program book and the STAGEBILL.

My folks attended quite a few Opening Night performances back then. This didn't faze them.

I'm the only one in my family who caught the Broadway bug.

[BJC899]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 5:04pm

my grandmother gave me a playbill from My Fair Lady with Julie Andres. *faints*

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 5:10pm

My mom's collection has a lot of cast albums I heard for the first time from her...Godspell, Man of La Macha, A Chorus Line, Hello Dolly, Jesus Christ Super Star...

My dad is not so into that. Although I DID find out where babies come from when I was looking through his stuff when I was nine...cough. LOL, Too much information, I know.

Oh, my Grandmom has some really cool old Sheet music. The original printings of The Impossible Dream, Hello, Dolly, 76 trombones, etc...

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 7:29pm

See, my parents were not big at all on musicals, so about all I found was Mint LPs for Godspell and Grease the movie. I'm totally the black sheep in the family.

[Junior]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 8:20pm

Neither of my parents are into musical theatre... or straight theatre for that matter... but when I was looking through my mom's senior yearbook, I saw that "What I did for Love" was her class's song. (strange song for a graduation, I know, but the movie came out that year, so I guess it was popular with her class?) When I asked her about it, I was REALLY surprised when she told me that she voted for that song. (Don't get me wrong, I love that show, but to hear my mother ADMIT to voting for a song from it, when she's told me to turn my showtunes down a million times was just weird).

A little more on topic, my great-grandparents were big theatre buffs, they were supporters and volunteers at one of our local community theatres for years and often took theatre trips to NYC, and when they died and my parents and grandparents were going through their things they found a TON of old playbills, ticket stubs, merchandise etc. that they gave to me. There was stuff from shows back to the late 40's! Among the many playbills were ones from the original casts of My Fair Lady, Camelot (they were big Julie Andrews fans), Bye Bye Birdie, Grease, My One and Only, and 42nd Street, plus various others.

Oh... there was even a SIGNED playbill from the ORIGINAL cast of Sound of Music (I HATE that show with a passion, but I now own something Mary Martin not only touched, but SIGNED!!! Go me...)

[coolphantom919]

Posted: 12/11/06 at 8:29pm

My dad has records for Oklahoma, Hair, The Sound Of Music, Fiddler On The Roof, And Others!