Playbill

Every time i went to see a play it had to be with playbill… I like it how it gives you a page or two about what the play is about and who plays who in the play. The restaurant suggestions are not the best in my opinion but hey what can you do…

Amazingly, I have every Playbill from every Broadway show I’ve seen. Cartons of them — which accompanied me on my cross-​country move twenty-​plus years ago — are stored on the uppermost shelves of a walk-​in closet, and those I’ve accumulated since are packed away in boxes on the floor. (I have every program from every West End production I’ve seen, as well, which probably makes me a genuine pack-​rat.) I know if I took the time to wade through them — and there are hundreds — I’d find treasures worthy of an eBay auction. .. Bette Midler, in her pre-​Divine Miss M days, in «Fiddler on the Roof,» Richard Chamberlain and Mary Tyler Moore in «Breakfast at Tiffany’s,» the legendary musical bomb, and dozens of shows that never made it past opening night (a true theater buff, I’m drawn to potential disasters as much as I am to established hits.) Most people toss their copies as soon as they get home, or leave them on the floor under their seat, but not I — I’ve amassed a huge collection that will get me cursed by whomever needs to sort through my things once I’m dead and gone. .. unless he or she, with no sentimental attachment to any of it, makes a small fortune by selling it all in an online auction.