Well...I gave tickets to Pippin as a Hanukkah gift with a message that as part of their gift I'll be seeing it with them. Was given to my daughter's grandparents and they are just as thrilled that I am driving four hours to be with them as they are with going to the show. So...I gave them the tickets to myself too? lol (Going Sunday, January 6th)
A $100 Best Buy giftcard which I used part of just now to buy the new NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST Blu-Ray collection which features Johnny Depp in parts 1 & 6 and he starred in Edward Scissorhands with Diane Weist who was on Broadway last in ALL MY SONS.
Used my Christmas cash to buy a ticket to Les Miserables in Imax on December 24, then used the $2 MP3 credit from Fandango to bring the price for the highlights album down to $2.99. If I had waited I could have used the other $2 credit from my ticket for The Hobbit 3D HFR to bring it down to 99 cents.
No one in my family EVER gets me anything for Christmas that's arts related at all, guess they're jealous that I had more fun than them all year at shows. Now it's cash and household stuff from Marshalls.
A ****load of playbills, tickets to LION KING and WICKED, a DVD entitled "Broadway: The American Musical", piano/vocal selections for NEWSIES, PHANTOM, and LES MIS, and a book called simply "Broadway", which features almost every recorded show of the last 50 years.
Santa comped what I spent when I went into NYC to see PETER AND THE STARCATCHER (the ticket, bus far, dinner etc...) and also gave me some frames for my posters.
As a gift to myself, I went up yesterday and saw VIRGINIA WOOLF and THE OTHER PLACE.
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I got a book of 101 of the greatest Broadway Musicals, an Evita hoodie, a new playbill binder, Drood sheet music and audition sheet music. Pretty great Christmas this year :)
I got the Company with NPH DVD. Got my daughter the Nice Work cd Daughter and I are going to NYC Jan 3-6---have tickets for The Heiress and will see at least one more show
I got a large book that contains reviews of Musicals from The New York Times.
It has great some great pictures and it's especially interesting to see the reviews of shows from decades before I was born.
I do sense some strangeness with the selections from the modern era, though that's probably because it's what I'm most familiar with. I understand they can't spotlight everything and if they gave shows negative reviews they might not want to print them. Still, they profile Passion but not Into The Woods, Bring in da noise bring in da funk but not Ragtime, and most weirdly to me Fela! and Spider-Man but no In the Heights
Nancy Reagan, meanest and thinnest of the first ladies moves into the white house. Yabba dabba! It's the eighties.
I got the 2013 Playbill calendar and another Playbill binder with extra pages from my mother, and my oldest brother gave me a box of vintage "Annie" movie merchandise from 1982, including the locket, a coloring book, program, a purse, mini doll, and a Playbill from the Broadway show with Sarah Jessica Parker as Annie.
I also got money from some of the kids I babysit, so I bought some books and things on playbillstore.com and I will probably buy myself a ticket to a show to see in January.