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[0:32] Amber Brzezinski: Oh my gosh. Hello, everyone. Long time no see. I've not done the intro right. We're learning. This is only my third time like fully driving the bus and like going live and everything. So you know. Um thank y'all for coming back so quickly. Um, I'm just going to uh I'm just going to quickly put up our link over here so you can know where to find us. You can either find us at the BroadwayFanClub.com or you can find us at oh my gosh, where's my mouse? My mouse is gone. Well, this is where oh found it. Okay. Or at only BroadwayFans.com. Um, we are also on Instagram at the Broadway Fan Club. Um we have our wonderful bracelets for sale at the Broadway Fan Club. Etsy.com, which I do have some right here. Um, but that's not about this.

[1:51] Amber Brzezinski: What do I do when I want to uh send something to the theater to get signed? So there's like a couple of rules that we have with this. So, rule number one, we don't recommend sending anything to the theater that you wouldn't want to lose. It's always a risk sending something to the theater that you know you might not get back. You know, you might um it might not um get signed and returned to you. If it's something sentimental and something important, you know, there are other ways to kind of maybe go around it, maybe make a photocopy, take a picture of it, get that signed. We recommend that a lot. Um, but don't send the actual item if it is something important to you.

[2:49] Amber Brzezinski: The next question we get all the time is do I have to send a playbill? No, no, you do not. You don't have to send anything at all. Though we do recommend to send a like a nice letter that's always like really appreciated by the performer. If you send a kind note, um, you know, that says something personal or you know, whatever you want to say to them, whether you really appreciated their performance or you have a personal connection to a previous show they did, or you've been a fan for a long time. Um, you know, that's always you know something I'm sure that they would love to hear.

[3:30] Amber Brzezinski: Um, the next thing that we um are asked all the time is Do I have to make a donation? This is circumstantial. Yes and no. If you are looking for a donation that is signed by your full cast of the show, yes, a donation is typically required. That is not a um usually something that they will just mail you back for free. Um they will mail you if you just want a free playbill. They have plenty of those. You can send any theater anytime basically and say, like, hey, I would love a just a plain playbill. Can I have one? Usually they will happily oblige and mail you one. So that's always an option. Like if you just happen to want like a Hades Town playbill with Jordan Tyson in it, for example, they'd be happy to send you one, probably.

[4:35] Amber Brzezinski: Um if you are looking for a signature of one specific actor, most of the time that does not require a donation. Um, most of the time you can just send a letter to that specific actor. Um, and a lot of times they will just mail you their singular signature back. Um, if they are an actor that replies to fan mail, not every actor does. Not every actor is required to. Um, if you watched our episode with Hannah yesterday, um, she said she doesn't stage door. I don't know if she um doesn't read fan mail. Jonathan Groff doesn't read fan mail. Um, he gets too overwhelmed. He just gets so much of it. So he does participate with the Broadway Cares donations. So the only way basically to get a playbill signed by Jonathan is to get one signed by the entire cast and to send it a donation.

[5:43] Amber Brzezinski: So things like that, like I said, it's it's very circumstantial. Um now there are methods to go about this. Um when I said I needed a little break, I needed a little break to do a couple of things. Um thing number one was to have a glass of water. I also have an Ian, so that would ideally be like done soon. Um thing number two was to make this handy dandy list of theater addresses, which I will post um on the Broadway Fan Club page and group and share accordingly. These are gonna be the places that you want to send your envelopes to make sure that your letters get um to the theaters.

[6:34] Amber Brzezinski: Um so I will leave this here for just a couple minutes so you can zoom in, take a look, and make sure you know you see where your theater is. Um there's a couple theaters that are very tricky. I know um Circle in the Square has multiple addresses, but we've been told it's been confirmed by multiple members, this is the correct address to use, even though people have gotten success at both addresses. We have had it confirmed that this is the correct address to use.

[7:09] Amber Brzezinski: So um, just make sure, you know, to take a look. And again, I will post this on all of our pages so you can uh use that as well. So now back to the important part the um envelopes. So like I said, it's it's nice to include a little personal um note or you know, some type of sentimental thing, maybe like a little personal note just stating how much you loved the show, or um, for me personally, I always like to leave a little note that that kind of says the truth, of course, which is that I live in Connecticut and I have a very long trade ride home, and that I mostly never have time to stage door, um, and that or I see matinees because I also have a long trade ride home, and I respect that the performers have time in between, and they do want to you know, rest, so I don't expect them to all come out in between shows.

[8:20] Amber Brzezinski: So, what I do, you can do a couple of different things. I've blocked out all my information here for you. You can log on to Broadway Cares, which you can do a couple of different ways. You can go here. Uh, look at Jeremy Jordan, he's just the cutest. You can go to donate broadwaycares.org and make a donation. Um, now different shows do ask for different amounts. My standard usually is about $50 because I feel like that's like a fair price for a cast signed playbill from like an incredible Broadway show. Like I just feel like that's a fair amount. Um, if a show requires more, they will kind of send you back a letter being like, hey, our minimum donation is this amount. Um, or if you have heard other things, you know, feel free to search in the group or post in the group, like, hey, do you know the donation amount for this show?

Um, we will, you know, try to update you as we can if we know about a donation amount for the show. Um, and then so you would put your donation amount in, and then you would dedicate your donation to the name of the show. So it would be like, for example, just in time. So you would want to put just in time here. So this way it shows on your receipt that you are donating for that specific show. Then if that is not a feasible option for you, um, then you would email your, I'm sorry, print your email receipt, which does in fact look like this. Um, you would fold it up, put it in your envelope with your letter and um, a couple other things, which I'll get to in a moment, and send it off to the theater.

If you do not have access to a printer and or like online checking, you also have the option to send a check. I did blur out all my personal information. Um, so you would just write a check out to Broadway Care's Equity Fights AIDS. Wonderful program. Like I said, I like to do $50, whatever amount you kind of feel or have heard. I will tell you prices skyrocket around Broadway Carrier season, price of skyrocket post-Tony season, price of skyrocket around Broadway Flea. So it and it changes throughout the year as well. And then you would just put your check right in your envelope as well with your letter and send that off. Now this is the next important part.

[11:12] Amber Brzezinski: Oh no, hold on, many. I forgot to draw something really quickly. Okay, perfect. All right. So then you would take your either your donation letter or your check and you would put those in with your letter in this envelope that you wrote out to the theater. So I wrote this. This is um from my return address, which is 123 Sesame Street in your in town, New York, uh zip code 0000. Um, and you want to address that to the theater. So whatever theater you want to write to, then I like to write the show name. So this way, like if the postman is confused, they're like, oh, okay, I see. If I am looking for a fully cast signed playbill, so if I have included a check and a donation, if I have not, and I am just writing to one singular actor, I will write care of that actor's name.

Then you put the address of the theater, 100 the Great White Way, New York, New York, 100 101. Great, perfect. Then inside this envelope, you're going to stick another envelope in with your letter and your donation amount. That envelope is going to have your name and address both here and here. And on this one, oh I'm sorry, on this one, I like to put two stamps. And on this one, I like to put um nope wrong one. On this one, this is the one with both of your names on it that you're gonna fold up and you're gonna put inside of this one so they can mail you a playbill back or something back.

[13:34] Amber Brzezinski: Um, and I feel like playbills are heavier than what I sent. So hopefully in uh, you know, a couple weeks, some shows are super fast, some shows are a little bit slower than others. You get this back in the mail, and it's sealed, and it's to you, and you pull it out, and you have one of these in them, and it's pretty awesome. Um, so if you have any questions, definitely you know, drop them down below. Um, tag me when you ask them so I get a notification, and um, I will again post the graphic with all the theater addresses so you'll have them in the future. We are just posting this video, so we will have it to share with people when they ask this question a thousand times down the line. So thanks for bearing with me.

I hope you have a good night, and I'm gonna go waste some dinner. May all your autographed dreams come true, and I hope you all have the best of luck signing and sending things to the theater. Um, because some people were asking about like getting things signed that they didn't go to a show that night, and honestly, this is just a much better way to do it because it's kinder for the people that did go to the show and deserve to be at that stage for. So just be kind. Thanks everyone. Bye.