Below is a pretty interesting collection of playbills I am offering for sale (or very compelling trades for pre-1990s playbills), they range from the 1960s to the present and include many off-Broadway and Broadway productions. Most of these except the very recent ones are from the personal collection of Lucie Arnaz and Lucille Ball so many are opening night, and a couple are signed some have notes from them scribbled on the cover or inside, etc. Most of them are original productions. I've done my best to note identifying features (major stars, theater, year, and I apologize for my inconsistency there) If you are interested in any of them, send me a message with your best offer and which one you are interested in.
Baby (Ethel Barrymore) Dance a Little Closer (Minskoff) Night Mother (John GOlden) Doonesbury (Biltmore) Cats (Winter Garden) A Private View (Public Theater) Slab Boys (Playhouse Theater) The Ritz (Longacre) (Rita Moreno) Equus (1975) (Anthony Hopkins) Bette Midler’s Clams on the Half Shell Revue (MInskoff) Same Time, Next Year ( Brooks Atkinson) (Ellen Burstyn, Charles Grodin) Chicago (Gwen Verdon and Chita -Rivera) (46th Street Theater) Pacific Overtures (Opening Night, 1976) The Norman Conquests (Paula Prentiss, Estelle Parsons, Ken Howard, Richard Benjamin) John Gabriel Borkman (Irene Worth, Circle in the Square) St. Mark’s Gospel (Alec McCowen, Playhouse Theater) 42nd Street (Jerry Orbach, Tammy Grimes, Winter Garden) Duet for One (Anne Bancroft, Max von Sydow) Amadeus (Ian McKellen) Bring Back Birdie (Chita Rivera, Donald O’Connor) It Had to Be You (Joseph Bologna) Candida (Joanne Woodward, Jane Curtin) Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Cherry Lane) The Desert Song (1973) The Children’s Mass (Theatre De Lys) Opening Night Playbill Smith (1973, Eden Theater), Opening Night Playbill Baker Street (Fritz Weaver, Inga Swenson, Martin Gabel) Mrs. Dally (Arlene Francis, 1965) Opening Night Playbill Albee’s Tiny Alice (Irene Worth, John Gielgud) The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (Directed by Peter Brook) The Killing of Sister George (Eileen Atkins, Beryl Reid) The Homecoming (Terence Rigby, Ian Holm, Vivien Merchant) The Gin Game x2(Maureen Stapleton, Directed by Mike Nichols) Diversions and Delights (Vincent Price) Loose Ends (Kevin Kline) Bruce Forsyth on Broadway (Winter Garden) Death Trap (1978, Marian Seldes, Victor Garber) Amadeus (Mark Hammill) My One and Only (Tommy Tune, signed by him) On Your Toes (Natalia Makarova, George S. Irving, Dina Merrill) Painting Churches (Lamb’s Theater, Marian Seldes, Elizabeth McGovern) La Cage Aux Folles (George Hearn, Gene Barry) Lovers and Other Strangers (196 A Midsummer Nights Dream directed by Peter Brook (1971) The Incomparable Max (Richard Kiley) Opening Night Playbill No No Nanette (1970), Ruby Keeler, Bobby Van, (Opening Night Playbill) Ari (Mark Hellinger Theater, 1971) The Old Lady’s Guide to Survival (June Havoc) Moon Over Buffalo (Opening Night Playbill) Carol Burnett After-Play (Barbara Barrie, Anne Meara) Patti LuPone on Broadway (Walter Kerr) Paul Roberson (Avery Brooks, Longacre Theater) Buskers (Tampa Bay Arts Center), signed by Tommy Tune Fifth of July (Chris Reeve, Jeff Daniels, Swoosie Kurtz) x 2 West Side Waltz (Katherine Hepburn, Dorothy Loudon) Fools (Neil Simon play directed by Mike Nichols starring John Rubenstein) Wally’s Café (Rita Moreno, Sally Struthers, James Coco) Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies (Judith Jamison, Hinton Battle, Gregory Hines) Singin in the Rain (Gershwin Theater) The Odd Couple (Sally Struthers, Rita Moreno) Blood Knot (Athol Fugard) Harvey x2 Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (recent production)x5 The Columnist x2 Gatz The Anarchist x2 No Man’s Land/Waiting for Godot x4 The Revisionist x2 Betrayal Romeo and Juliet (Elizabeth Olsen) The Village Bike x2 The Mountaintop x3 Beautiful I'll Eat You Last The Realistic Joneses x2 Angels in America (Signature) Raisin in the Sun (most recent revival ) x2 Mother****er with the Hat (x2) The Library (x2) Orphans Death of a Salesman (Hoffman) x 2 Bullets Over Broadway Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Scarlett Johansson) x2 The Heiress x3 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Letts/Morton) x3