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Post by galinda on May 16, 2017 15:12:26 GMT
So do you keep your theatre tickets once you have used them or throw them away?
I collect mine, but all shoved into a big envelope. How do you store yours?
(Slow day at work hence starting a boring topic like this!)
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 15:14:04 GMT
I wanna say yes just to seem like a good theatre fan, but I don't, and I regret it every single time now! Although, I have special ones that may not be significant to some but they are too me. I may actually have a look and update on the few I have hahaha!
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Post by LaLuPone on May 16, 2017 15:15:48 GMT
Started collecting them this year but to be fair I haven't been theatring long. Got this year's on a pinboard in my room but I imagine I'll take them all down and put them in a drawer somewhere by the end of the year to make room for 2018
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Post by 49thand8th on May 16, 2017 15:33:38 GMT
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Post by Marwood on May 16, 2017 15:38:43 GMT
I have just about all of the 'proper' tickets from the last 5-6 years that I have received in the post or collected from ticket offices, but I don't bother keeping any 'print at home' tickets. I currently have them stashed in a drawer at my desk at work, but I need to decide whether to keep them or dump some of them, they're slowly filling up all the available storage space around me.
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Post by tmesis on May 16, 2017 15:45:07 GMT
No, but I do keep all the free NT and ROH cast sheets.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 15:45:24 GMT
I have two signed ones that I keep on a pinboard that I love, one of Gemma Artherton from the final performance of Made in Dagenham and one of Queen Tucker from her final performance in Wicked.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 15:45:42 GMT
Some have got lost along the way, but yes I've a 30-year strong collection of concert & theatre stubs. I started putting them in albums, but it's one of those jobs that seemed a good idea when you first thought of it
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Post by Tibidabo on May 16, 2017 15:46:22 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.
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Post by LaLuPone on May 16, 2017 15:50:39 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. That's actually a great idea! I might do that once I've taken my tickets down from the pinboard, I usually get a programme for every trip. |
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Post by jgblunners on May 16, 2017 15:51:16 GMT
I've got about 2 years worth up in a frame sort of like a collage, with another 2 years' worth stuck in envelopes waiting for the same treatment when I can be bothered!
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Post by tmesis on May 16, 2017 15:52:31 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. The great thing about the ROH cast sheets is they are individually dated with the performance number e.g: Tuesday 16th May - the 492 performance of La Traviata at the Royal Opera House. |
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 15:52:50 GMT
I keep them, but I don't know why. I'm never going to have any use for them, they have no value, and I don't even look at them except to move them out of the way to get at something else in the same drawer. One day I'll pluck up the courage to bin them, like I did with the still-boxed-up books I hadn't read since moving into this house.
The same applies to programmes and brochures, except they occupy numerous shelves instead of small filing-card boxes.
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Post by duncan on May 16, 2017 15:53:04 GMT
I have all my tickets and also around 200 programmes in boxes under my bed. I've grown more resistant to the charms of the programme over the last couple of years but I still need those tickets.
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Post by Someone in a tree on May 16, 2017 15:53:35 GMT
I stick them at random in a book and then 5 or so years later I am reminded (for better or worse) of the evening. It's quite a pleasnet surprise and memory log
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 15:53:51 GMT
Oh if we are talking programmes too, I always buy a programme, it is always the first thing I do. And if I am returning to a show and the leads are different I buy another programme!
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 15:55:19 GMT
I keep all my tickets, programmes and flyers in different stagey bags and occasionally like to look through and reminisce.
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Post by jgblunners on May 16, 2017 15:57:40 GMT
Oh if we are talking programmes too, I always buy a programme, it is always the first thing I do. And if I am returning to a show and the leads are different I buy another programme! I do the same - starting to run out of storage for all those programmes! |
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Post by infofreako on May 16, 2017 16:12:17 GMT
I have two signed ones that I keep on a pinboard that I love, one of Gemma Artherton from the final performance of Made in Dagenham and one of Queen Tucker from her final performance in Wicked. And you didn't even queue for it. Just sat in the pub drinking wine, singing showtunes then casually strolled up |
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Post by infofreako on May 16, 2017 16:14:04 GMT
I used to keep mine, I still have a few signed ones or ones from specific shows that mean more. I've got more souvenir concert tickets than I have theatre ones and I always keep programmes
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 16:14:09 GMT
I have two signed ones that I keep on a pinboard that I love, one of Gemma Artherton from the final performance of Made in Dagenham and one of Queen Tucker from her final performance in Wicked. And you didn't even queue for it. Just sat in the pub drinking wine, singing showtunes then casually strolled up Exactly what happened! Thrilled! And credit to Rachel, who was still outside at 11:45 signing! |
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Post by Mark on May 16, 2017 16:42:14 GMT
I keep all my tickets in a shoebox, and have about 5 plastic boxes full of programmes etc. I've stopped buying programmes except the most special of occasions or when I really fancy one.
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Post by Jan on May 16, 2017 17:04:36 GMT
No - I keep my ticket in my hand throughout the performance silently folding and refolding it now and again so by the end it is in no fit state to keep. I collected programmes religiously for about the first 20 years but then just stopped - they add to the expense and now most information on casting etc. can be retrieved on-line.
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Post by kathryn on May 16, 2017 17:29:03 GMT
I keep mine - they have now overspilled the box they are stuffed into, so need to find more storage for them!
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2017 17:45:08 GMT
I keep mine. I've a cupboard full of several boxes of tickets that one Christmas I may have even sorted into date order...I also have about 6-7 boxes of programmes. Which I buy less of now, only for the shows I know I'll want to remember. I have my Playbills in seperate boxes as well.
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