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Post by CG on the loose on May 16, 2017 17:59:19 GMT
Ah. Now, some years ago when I was rooting through my programme collection I realised that I had no recollection of when I'd actually seen most of the stuff I've seen. The only small clue being the length of telephone numbers in the adverts therein. So I now carefully staple a ticket to the front of the programme - shows the date, seat and price, which may be interesting to some descendent or other in decades to come. For exactly the same reason... I don't staple, but I do tuck the tickets inside the programme (a corner under the centrefold keeps them secure). I also keep a spreadsheet to satisfy my inner nerd, but you can't beat flicking through a stack of old programmes to set the memories flowing. |
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Post by alece10 on May 16, 2017 18:07:08 GMT
Keep mine and put them inside the programme. Never go for print at home option as I like a real ticket.
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Post by d'James on May 16, 2017 18:56:44 GMT
I try to keep them but they're spread about in various locations so I don't think I'd know where to find half of them. I'm starting to try and keep tickets and programmes together.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 19:11:51 GMT
I don't usually, but I do always keep programmes. I have several boxes full. Some of the programmes do have tickets in, but it's just accidental. They are actually really handy to keep track of dates, as previous posters have said, but I don't have any sentimental value from keeping the tickets.
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Post by Dawnstar on May 16, 2017 19:45:43 GMT
I keep mine in their respective programmes. This does mean that shows I have repeat-viewed can have a lot of tickets bulging out of 1 programme! I always buy programmmes. Yes it costs a bit but I never buy other show merchandise & nor do I buy drinks or food at theatres so I think purchasing programmes is a reasonable expense.
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Post by dippy on May 16, 2017 20:03:19 GMT
Yep, got all my tickets apart from a couple which got lost somewhere or other (very annoying). I have one ticket where the ticketing system broke and they were unable to sell or print tickets. Eventually I was able to buy one but they couldn't print it so they scribbled the Show, Seat and time onto one of the tickets. Of course I'd have preferred a nicely printed official one but it's definitely the odd one out in the collection. I also hate it when they get torn badly so if people in front of me in the queue are having their ticket stubs ripped off I pre-fold the perforated edge so that if they do tear the tickets it won't rip the ticket.
I know it's cheeky but I wished that more tickets had the show's logo or similar on them, some tickets are so much nicer than others. However I will keep them all whatever they look like, it's always fun looking through them, but I do need to do something about storing them better because I know there are a few that are so faded you can hardly read what the show was any more.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 20:57:30 GMT
I never use print-at-home tickets, mainly because I have a printer that seems to think "I see you're printing something with a barcode on it. I will blur the image just enough that it fools you into believing it ought to be scannable but nothing will actually be able to read it no matter how many times you try."
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 21:28:21 GMT
I try to avoid print at home tickets but occasionally it's unavoidable, so I try to keep the printouts. Otherwise I try to always keep my tickets to any type of theatre or concert.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 22:23:17 GMT
I have kept all of my concert and theatre tickets from the last ten years when I started. They are filed by year, waiting for me to display them in an inspiring way...
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 22:44:32 GMT
I don't *keep* them so much as I just don't throw them out. I used to keep a scrapbook and buy programmes, but now I just have tickets and leaflets strewn everywhere. Yes, my house is a *bit* of a fire hazard, but hey.
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Post by viserys on May 17, 2017 6:14:35 GMT
I print a cast list of every performance I see on an A4 sheet and glue the ticket to it, then put it in a binder along with the programme. Have done this for more than 25 years now, so I have half a wall full of binders separated into London, New York, Germany, Netherlands, etc. London has grown to be the largest section there!
The cast list printing is mostly to remember understudies who I'd otherwise forgot later and are very useful for the many shows that show the cast on a screen rather than hand out printed lists or slips with the understudies.
It all sounds a bit anal now, but since I've done it for so long, I'd feel stupid about giving up on the tradition. I also love going through old programmes from time to time, recall shows I've completely forgotten about or realize I've seen someone "before they were famous".
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Post by Tibidabo on May 17, 2017 6:23:12 GMT
....and the winner is.... I print a cast list of every performance I see on an A4 sheet and glue the ticket to it, then put it in a binder along with the programme. Have done this for more than 25 years now, so I have half a wall full of binders separated into London, New York, Germany, Netherlands, etc. That's some serious dedication viserys.  |
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Post by viserys on May 17, 2017 6:49:58 GMT
What can I say, I'm German  We're nothing if not organized. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 17, 2017 8:36:30 GMT
Scrapbook
Pritt-stick
No life
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Post by HereForTheatre on May 17, 2017 9:40:01 GMT
I try but i go for the more expensive option of buying programme for every single thing i go to regardless of how many times i go to see it. So the result is binders full of programmed when i could probably have a neat little scrapbook of tickets that cost several hundred pounds less....
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Post by Elisa on May 17, 2017 11:06:33 GMT
I do keep them and I dislike print-at-home tickets because they're not "the real thing": I avoid them at any cost.
I also keep programmes and flyers. And cinema tickets and at least a specimen of bus, train, etc. tickets (I was devastated when I found out that in Britain the machine will eat your ticket at the end of the journey), and planes boarding passes. I also tend to keep shop receipts when I travel.
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Post by Lemansky on May 17, 2017 11:47:09 GMT
I keep them and stick them in a scrapbook in date order, with a picture of the production if I can find one. Before that I kept them in a big envelope, so it was a pain to sort them all out, but much easier to keep track of them now I'm on top of it. I also try and avoid print-at-home tickets at any cost.
I do also buy a programme for nearly everything I see. I don't tend to buy programme texts though, unless I really liked the production - I'm much more likely to pick up a cast list in that instance.
There was a time when we had to give our tickets in at work in order to claim the expenses back, so there's a period of a couple of years that I have hardly any tickets for. However, now they just need the booking receipt which is a much better system.
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Post by galinda on May 17, 2017 15:14:49 GMT
Ooh that's cool. How many tickets roughly does that hold? I see it says 52 pages but how many tickets to a page? |
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Post by 49thand8th on May 17, 2017 15:16:39 GMT
It's kind of odd/useful because there are two sizes of pockets within the album, so about half the pages hold three and half hold two. The smaller ones can easily hold a telecharge/ticketmaster-sized Broadway or off-Broadway ticket. The larger ones easily hold a West End or (in my experience) Major League Baseball ticket and many larger-sized US museum tickets.
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Post by danb on May 17, 2017 15:21:48 GMT
I used to have them in framed collages in the bathroom, back from the days when you'd get a great colour printed concert ticket, or at least a funky logo stub on an ALW show. Nowadays it's all print at home or drab ticketmaster or see branded tickets. I don't even buy a programme these days...
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 16:13:27 GMT
I have a whole theatre "room" at home
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 17, 2017 16:48:53 GMT
Problem with those purpose made books is that you can only fit tickets in. I sometimes like to pick up the flyers from the the theatre and stickit with me tikit
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 16:52:57 GMT
Oooo some of you have a real process don't ya! I literally just have a drawer.  |
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Post by Dawnstar on May 17, 2017 19:31:26 GMT
Oooo some of you have a real process don't ya! I literally just have a drawer. I ran out of drawers. Nowadays for theatre programmes I have a floor! |
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Post by 49thand8th on May 17, 2017 20:11:36 GMT
Problem with those purpose made books is that you can only fit tickets in. I sometimes like to pick up the flyers from the the theatre and stickit with me tikit Yeah, it can get unwieldy. There's a pocket in the back of the one I have, though. |
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