Not in Packs
Some cards are created to be available at specific events or to promote specific ventures and/or individuals, so they're not available in packs. Some some of these are available in our shop while some require some hunting.
These three cards completed a full 12 months of monthly card features that began with the first nine months of 2021. (See below).
In our continued effort to celebrate timely happenings and causes, we created a monthly recurring series of lenticular/tilt cards that benefit various charities close to our collective hearts. These cards were released monthly to shine a light. Each card benefits a cause, a portion of the proceeds going to charity.
In 2021 we’re getting some glimmers of hope. A new presidency and the return of Broadway, celebrated with the weekend Broadway festival Curtain Up! in Times Square in September of 2021.
Our very own Dori has many thrilling plates spinning at once, and one of these plates that began spinning in 2019 is the Broadway Podcast Network. Dori enlisted Squigs to help celebrate and promote the growing endeavor with a cavalcade of cards including a large release at BroadwayCon 2020, a trio of foil cards imagining a BPN Thanksgiving Day parade, and a duo release around Broadway soap opera podcast As the Curtain Rises and the show within the show, Avvatar: The Musical.
As the COVID-19 pandemic rolled on, large gatherings still proved too risky, so our favorite Broadway fan fundraiser went virtual with their auction, and we created some cards to go along with the festivities, once again focusing on timely themes.
Oh, what a year 2020 turned out to be. Like so many folks, we wanted to find ways to help our friends in the arts industry, so we created a number of cards to further benefit our favorite charities, The Actors Fund and BC./EFA.
Thrilled to be back at the FIFTH BroadwayCon, we featured a lot of Con-specific content as well as the imminent changing of the Evans over at the Music Box.
At the 2019 Flea, we went with some timely topics on our Flea exclusives.
We were back for the fourth BroadwayCon in early 2019, and we brought along some cards celebrating some milestones, a nod to Ziegfeld (inspired by part of the Con being hosted at the Ziegfeld Theatre, former cinema), and a reunion. We also featured a card hyping our own Dori’s show The Prom.
As our pal and Lightcatcher Iain Armitage was headed to appear on Late Night with Stephen Colbert to talk about his show Young Sheldon, we thought it would be a great opportunity to kickstart a little idea we had kicking around and create a “Champion of Broadway” series. This was the first and – to date – only card in the series. But we hope to revisit the concept in the future. This card has on occasion been available in our shop.
At the 2018 Flea, we heralded a number of shows that Squigs had been able to see in pre-Broadway runs (three of which have since opened on the Great Bright Way).
Back at the Con in early 2018, we found that there were a number of shows celebrating milestone anniversaries.
In our Autumn 2017 edition packs, we had every intention of including a card honoring Broadway animal trainer Bill Berloni, but we've since figured that they didn't make it into the packaging. So we've moved that card here since we've been offering these cards as contest prizes and for sale raising funds for the Human Society of NYC.
We found ourselves back in Shubert Alley in September of 2017 for the annual Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Broadway Flea Market. We were happy to offer some cards with inspirational images from shows that had recently closed. And we featured our friend Iain Armitage whose work on TV's Young Sheldon was just being seen for the first time.
Late 2016 and 2017 brought a number of promotional collaborations with various ventures and organizations. Tom Rice (Lightcatcher and main man at Sycamore Pictures) worked with us to create cards to promote his film Speech & Debate (show art, a special foil version, playwright Stephen Karam). And we provided a couple cards for the gala and fundraising efforts of Broadway Dreams, theatrical education for young performers. For the first time, we offered packs for sale with partnering organizations: Show-Score and BC/EFA. Squigs created the cover illustration for the very first Tony Season compilation CD thanks to Broadway Records and we were grateful to cross-promote with this card version of the cover art. And most recently, we created a card especially for Josh Groban's Find Your Light Foundation gala fundraiser. Josh is one of our generous Giving Back stars in the Spring 2017 edition, and the signed and numbered card was a unique version of the Giving Back card. And we also have a special card we created for Sardi's who hosted our Autumn 2017 press event.
We were back at the second annual Broadway Con 2017, this time at the Javits Convention Center, and we once again had some Con exclusive cards. Squigs illustrated the poster again which made it to a card, then there were cards for shows that offered special panel discussions: Annie, Falsettos, In Transit, and In Trousers.
With the release of our Autumn 2016 edition, we decided to revisit our "Props to the Press" efforts, but this time we would include a number of our social media and podcast pals! And the wonderful Jim Caruso invited Squigs to sit in on Cast Party, drawing the cavalcade of talent and promoting the cards on Monday, November 14, 2016.
The BC/EFA Broadway Flea Market holds a dear place in the hearts of the creators of The Lights of Broadway™. So for this, the 30th edition of the Flea, we created some Flea Market exclusive cards: a Flea card as well as cards for audience favorite shows recently closed AND a card for the Kids of The King & I (because Squigs promised).
Our friends at Broadway merchandise Mecca, Theatre Circle (and One Shubert Alley) unveiled a pop-up shop next door to the Winter Garden Theatre, and we worked with them on this card to promote the new venture.
In honor of our very first press release and event in Spring of 2016, we printed 250 cards each of our "Props to the Press" series. And we also made sure that our own Lights of Broadway co-creator Dori Berinstein had her own card.
The very first convention for Broadway nerds like us took place in January of 2016 during a crazy blizzard, and we had to be there with some Con-specific cards (Con VIP art by our own Squigs on a card, and cards for most of the shows giving big panel discussions and reunions during Broadway Con 2016):
When we created our Autumn 2015 edition, we wanted to honor two folks: George Takei who was telling a very personal story in the Broadway show Allegiance and Iain Armitage (of Iain Loves Theatre) who was one of the very first champions of our Lights of Broadway adventure. These cards have been distributed through our honorees and various online contests.
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