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| re: Mockingbird today - "One Playbill per person and no Playbill without a ticket" | |
| Posted by: winters (dearworld2@gmail.com) 08:49 am EST 02/18/19 | |
| In reply to: Mockingbird today - "One Playbill per person and no Playbill without a ticket" - JBarnet 07:45 pm EST 02/17/19 | |
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| There is never a call for rudeness, especially when it is toward the ticket buying public. As a former playbill acquirer, I would always ‘need’ to leave the theater with two playbills. One of which I could read at my seat and the other, being in pristine condition, for the ‘collection.’ Many years ago just before the Saturday matinee began, I got up from my seat (in a seat wherein I did not disturb anyone), I went the short distance up the aisle and took a second playbill from the stack under the seat in the last row of the orchestra. The usher gave me a stern look. As the lights dimmed same usher, coming up the aisle paused at my seat and handed to me all the playbills she had in her hands. Better than a dozen. “We seem to have a lot of extras.” ‘Shogun, The Musical” Several years ago I sorted through the ‘collection’, kept the important (to me) playbills and passed on those cartons to another collector through this very site. Told the person, money not required, just a hand truck as delivery was not included. I had grown tired of paying the monthly storage bill for all those cartons and wanted the playbills to be in a home wherein they were actively wanted. In this new era of decluttering I was ahead of my time. I’ve got a suitcase crammed with Broadway souvenir books for which I am trying to motivate myself to list and send to new homes. Here’s the thing. Mortality is beginning to knock on my door. My husband, much younger, will survive me. He has little interest in the theater. Just the thought of him paying someone to dispose of all those boxes of ‘junk’ in the basement after I have gone to sing ‘Blow Gabriel, Blow’, well.... I would not rest easy. |
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| re: Mockingbird today - "One Playbill per person and no Playbill without a ticket" | |
| Posted by: mikem 04:55 pm EST 02/19/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Mockingbird today - "One Playbill per person and no Playbill without a ticket" - winters 08:49 am EST 02/18/19 | |
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| winters, thank you for sharing your story. I am also a Playbill collector and like to have a pristine copy. That was very kind of the usher to give you more Playbills! I've got a lot of Playbills that I may never look at again, but I also have a bunch of them that make me smile when I think about that show. I'm fortunate that I have the space for both groups right now. |
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