Broadway fans found everything from rare opening night gifts to classic original Playbills, met their favorite stars and bid on once-in-a-life-time experiences to push the grand total at last year's Annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction to an all-time high of $713,986.
The biggest day of the year for Broadway fans once again brought thousands of theatre lovers into Times Square, Shubert Alley and onto West 44th Street to explore 65 tables overflowing with unique Broadway memorabilia. They met 61 of Broadway's brightest stars at the Autograph Table and Photo Booth, and bid on 247 Grand Auction lots in live and silent auctions.
The 28 editions of the Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction have raised a grand total of $11 million.
The 28th Annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction, held on September 21, 2014, shattered the previous record of $681,892, set in 2012. The tables last year raised an impressive $369,616; the live auction raised $263,850.
The 65 tables of the Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction represented Broadway and Off-Broadway's top shows, theatre owners, producing organizations, unions, guilds, marketing groups, ticket agencies, concessionaires and fan clubs.
They offered the widest variety of theatre treasures – original crystals taken from chandeliers at the recently restored Schoenfeld Theatre, under-the-sea costume pieces from The Little Mermaid to one-of-a kind props and sections of long-closed shows' marquees – as well as vintage Playbills, signed show posters, CDs and records, costume sketches, specialty items made by many of the shows' casts specifically for the day and just about every other kind other show memorabilia imaginable.
Event runs 10 AM thru 7 PM. Live Auction @ 5 PM
