Cat on a Tin Roof Success. (Is it real though?)

[CHUCKMONEY]

I got the playbill back with The four main actors and actresses just like other successes I have seen on here. Are they authentic?

[TheScarletPimpernel]

No doubt it is authentic. There is no such thing as a Pre-Print or auto-penned playbill .

[dansautos]

No doubt it is authentic. There is no such thing as a Pre-Print or auto-penned playbill .

There is such a thing as secretarial Playbills though. However, this cast has been sending out authentic ones! Congrats!

[CHUCKMONEY]

Thanks

[TheScarletPimpernel]

No doubt it is authentic. There is no such thing as a Pre-Print or auto-penned playbill .

There is such a thing as secretarial Playbills though. However, this cast has been sending out authentic ones! Congrats!

What are you talking about? There's no secretaries or personal assistants that could sign for people at a Broadway Show..there cramped enough back there, especially at the Broadhurst!, and a Stage Manager, like the one of Sunday in the Park with George, won't send anything if the cast or a group of actors/actresses don't want to sign.

If you send to the theatre it's always authentic, although if you get one from an agency it doesn't have to be. Although the chances of those four actors reading the letter, if you sent it to the stage manager, are so slim, especially with all the mail I'm sure they get for cast-signed playbills. If you really want one of them to read your letter no-doubt, send it to one of them, and if you're nice enough they might get a playbill and have the rest of them sign it. But as I've said before, there's usually just a big stack.

If it's inscribed though, it's more than likely sec., I'll give you that. Like my Lion King one .

[danny2010]

If you send to the theatre it's always authentic

No quite. I sent to Spamalot for Clay Aiken and I received an AP autograph on a playbill. So sometimes they could be AP, but I highly doubt that there are any PP ones.
Also I have received numerous playbills and Spamalot is the only "fake" one I received.

[TheScarletPimpernel]

So you're telling me that Clay decided to pay/arrange to have all of his fanmail from the theatre to be sent to some sort of agency to have an AP be done? I highly doubt it.

[dansautos]

So you're telling me that Clay decided to pay/arrange to have all of his fanmail from the theatre to be sent to some sort of agency to have an AP be done? I highly doubt it.

It's absolutely possible. Plus, identifiable autopens are often fairly obvious and hard to mistake for being authentic. The theatre could:

1. deliver it themselves, since the agency offices are also in midtown (but this option is highly unlikely)
2. When the person's assistant/helper/etc. comes in (doesn't have to be every day or even all that often) have them take the mail with them.
3. Use USPS to forward the mail to the agency address (this is probably too much of a hassle).

So... my guess is #2 happens. Plus, if you recall the Ashley Judd autographs from a while ago when she was on Broadway, they matched her usual secretarial TTM sig quite well, but did not match her movie set authentic successes. Her movie set authentic successes match her IPs quite well, and also they match each other from multiple movie sets. However, most of the time, especially recently, even via venue/movie set, she just has her mail forwarded to her agency.

In conclusion, if a celeb doesn't want mail, the theatre can either toss it or forward it to the agency.

Of course, none of this applies in this case, as the Playbill is almost certainly authentically signed.

[danny2010]

So you're telling me that Clay decided to pay/arrange to have all of his fanmail from the theatre to be sent to some sort of agency to have an AP be done? I highly doubt it.

I am not going to start an argument because I don't want to have this topic locked, but I will supply you with the proof.

One, take a look at the picture that I received from him "autographed".
Picture.
Two, look at the playbill that I recieved. The autographs might look similar at first but with a closer look you can tell that they are identical.
Playbill.

This leads me to beilve that they are AP. You can find my original feedback post here.

I have aligned the signatures using photoshop and now you can see that they are identical. I think that this is proof enough. One image is on top of the other and they fall directly on top of each other.
Signatures Aligned

danny2010

[CHUCKMONEY]

SO CAN WE CONCLUDE THAT MY CAT ON A TIN ROOF PLAYBILL IS AUTHENTIC? THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO REPLYED