Every year, Broadway cleans its closets, cast members get together and bake, and Shubert’s Alley turns into a Broadway lover’s dream. It’s a great chance for Broadway lovers and Broadway performers to join together and raise money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. And while it’s different every year, from the ever changing autograph tables and photo booth, and the shows that come out-the feeling in the air is the same-and everyone walks away with a smile!
I go every year for my birthday and every year I walk away with great one-of-a kind items! And this year was no different! The only difference for me this year is I focused more on the individual show tables rather than the autograph and photo booth.
Jumping from Rock of Ages, seeing the baby llama up for sale, and going immediately to the Pippin table, I couldn’t stop the grin on my face! Especially because I brought my theatre-loving friend who had never been there before. Watching him experience his first flea market made me fondly remember mine!
While I didn’t meet anyone at the autograph table, I did go to the Unbroken Circle table and met Seth Rudetsky and even won a month of “Seth TV”! We also met and made friends with Richie Ridge, the host of Broadway Beat!
I also walked away with a lot of great finds! Playbills from Wit, Relatively Speaking, Man of La Mancha, and Barnum. Visiting the Wicked table, I bought a mint chocolate brownie, and from The Lion King I bought something the cast deemed “Kitty Crack”, chocolate and butterscotch covered bits of rice krispie treats!
I bought a newspaper prop from Pippin, lots of Broadway Bares DVDs, and even Joey Taranto’s name plate from Rock of Ages.
Whether you stayed at the autograph tables and photo booth, visited with the shows at their own booths, or went to the auction at the end-this year’s BCEFA Flea Market was a great success and I walked away with another giant grin on my face! See you all next year!
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