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Post by crabtree on Aug 5, 2024 11:29:46 GMT
Aware that mortal coils are gently shuffling, what to do with a collection of programmes dating back to the 70's, mainly from the Manchester area and London and Stratford. As others have said they still give such pleasure and are browsed through every day, with a 'oh, look, he was in that', and 'whatever happened to her?'. Until Covid and living on a pension there were generally two shows a week - that's a lot of programmes. sadly, they are only in a random order.
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Post by SilverFox on Aug 5, 2024 13:48:54 GMT
Aware that mortal coils are gently shuffling, what to do with a collection of programmes dating back to the 70's, mainly from the Manchester area and London and Stratford. As others have said they still give such pleasure and are browsed through every day, with a 'oh, look, he was in that', and 'whatever happened to her?'. Until Covid and living on a pension there were generally two shows a week - that's a lot of programmes. sadly, they are only in a random order. I always used to buy a programme, but suddenly stopped when I realised that failing eyesight plus dim theatre lighting plus some young designer thinking it was hip to put text on anything other than a white background, meant that it was getting more and more difficult to read them until later in a good light, AND the cost was getting extortionate! I still kept them - 1,000's - in several large boxes until some years back when downsizing meant some hard choices had to be made. A few of them fetched very good prices at an auction (original Barbican Les Mis for example), some I was able to donate to an archive, many went for recycling. I used to treasure them, but, I confess, now miss them not one jot. I only kept a handful - pretty cover or Diana Rigg listed as ASM on a simple folded page etc.
Then, just before the downsizing move, someone donated a substantial collected of opera programmes signed by Joan Sutherland, to do with what I pleased. They came to the new house, where I intended to sell them on ebay. Still have not got around to it!
If only procrastination was an Olympic sport .......
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Post by nick on Aug 5, 2024 16:51:41 GMT
So have we decided these are essentially worthless now or is there anywhere to sell? I have ones going back to the 80s and stopped buying after Covid. My family will not be interested browsing through them when I pop my clogs. I would suggest that a look through for a leftfield interest might up the value. For example my other interest is Doctor Who and there is a market for programmes that include Who actors especially with images. There's probably other type of interests - Trains? Pop Stars? Dunno. But when I go through mine I intend to have this in mind when I list them on eBay. I have a £20 or more rule for eBay so I'll be selling them in bundles of some sort unless they're valuable by themselves. |
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Post by lynette on Aug 6, 2024 16:03:54 GMT
When we downsized nobody wanted the programmes. We gave some to a charity shop, running away fast so they didn’t see what we had dropped on them. There was a chap from French’s theatre shop who took a few. And I kept the ones with good autographs and some ‘historic ‘ones but tbh they will all go to the dump one day…We don't buy them now.
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Post by unseaworthy on Aug 6, 2024 23:12:58 GMT
I would really miss it if they stopped doing programs although £15 at Starlight Express does seem a little expensive...
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Post by marob on Aug 6, 2024 23:16:50 GMT
That’s expensive but does at least have some content in it. The Mean Girls programme had little more than half a page of text from the creatives about adapting the show and bringing it over here, and then the is just rest bios and adverts. And they charged £10 for it!
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Post by sph on Aug 7, 2024 0:45:22 GMT
I haven't bought a programme for a long time now. Tbh, I just don't have the space and nowadays all the photos and cast information are basically available online.
I don't think theatres will ever stop selling them though. I imagine that they're relatively cheap to produce and if you're selling them on a busy show for £10 each then with a good markup you've literally got a licence to print money.
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