Thanks for reminder about Filichia. I don't always remember, and that's a good one because it will help to reinforce and redefine my own feelings about things to save and not to save.
Last year I went through a purge of stuff that was taking enormous amounts of room, and tossed a huge box of community theater programs going back twenty years. There was a lot there because, as mentioned earlier today, this region is so rich in local theater. We have fewer of them than we did two decades ago, but I believe we're still better off than most areas around the country.
At any rate, should I wish to look something up (and I hardly ever did), all of those places keep their stuff and it's easy enough to find information about previous shows.
BUT ..... I kept every program from all of my past years in Columbus, Florida, Cleveland, L.A., etc. -- of amateur and professional productions alike. There aren't that many of them because I wasn't the theatergoer that many of you were. And sadly, there are a few that went missing years ago. But the ones I have are all priceless, for one reason or another. It's just a whole different thing. And they take up very little space.
Of course I could feel that way someday about the accumulation of local stuff here that I got rid of. But I thought long and hard about that, and am fine with that decision.
