A Question about the actual Tony Award

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 6/10/07 at 12:26pm

How come some of the Tony winners are given a book/certificate instead of the actual statuette?????? I just watched one of those "Tony Memory" clips with Dick Latessa and his was an interview right after he won the Tony Award and he had one of the certificates, not a statuette.

[morosco]

Posted: 6/10/07 at 12:29pm

I could be wrong but do the winners get a certificate in place of an award until the award is engraved?

[Rotel1026]

Posted: 6/10/07 at 12:32pm

I'm not 100% sure about the Tony, but I know I've read in the past that at the Oscars, the winner gets to do the backstage interviews/pictures thing with the statuette and then they take it away and engrave the name on it. So as Morosco said, it could be because they have to wait until the name is engraved on it.

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 6/10/07 at 12:36pm

Thanks

[BJC899]

Posted: 6/10/07 at 12:36pm

I was also under the impression that for award ceremony's, they use "dummy statues" - those which are bigger than the actual award. It looks better on TV.

[TapTapTapioca]

Posted: 6/10/07 at 12:40pm

I don't think the dummy satutes are true.

But how long does it take for the TONY to get engraved? Do they get it back that night?

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 6/10/07 at 12:42pm

But at any rate he didn't even have that, he just had the certificate.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 6/10/07 at 12:42pm

No. It gets sent to them later.

[TBone]

Posted: 6/10/07 at 12:44pm

Back in 1998, when Audra won the TONY for RAGTIME, I saw the show for the first time on July 15th, and she mentioned at the stage door that she had just recieved the actual statuette that day.
Updated On: 6/10/07 at 12:44 PM

[matjomae]

Posted: 6/10/07 at 1:29pm

It is not uncommon for "dummy statues" to be used.

I know that the Grammy's use "dummy statues," at least for some of the award winners. I would assume that the winners of the major awards that are televised get to take their awards with them so that they can be seen carrying them all over to the after parties, but not everyone gets their awards that night.

Last summer I was working for an artist (who attended the actual awards cermony) who produced on a Grammy Award winning album. We recevied his award via UPS in June, how many months later. Talk about a shock when I opened the box to find the foam wrapped award.

In case anyone is curious, a Grammy is about the same size in person as they are on TV.