Anybody have a TONY or...?

Anybody out there fortunate enough to have won a Tony Award at one of the Broadway Auctions or were given or purchased? If so, Who's Tony is it and how much did you pay?
Also, Any other UNIQUE Broadway themed Items you bought or Won at Auction you might like to share, Please do, Feel free to post pictures as well!
Thanks and let's see those treasures and hear the great stories behind them!!

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what, who??

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EverythingIsRENT: Marc Shaiman, jeffmarx (Jeff Marx) and whitless (Jeff Whitty) are Tony Winners who have all openly posted on BWW
and yeah jim, they are all pretty cool people

"I know, It's just a Tony but I'm impressed!"

Just a TONY? I don't know about the rest of you, but I still consider it a damn fine achievement.

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The guy that sat next to me in sixth grade (Brian Backer) won a Tony in a Woody Allen play (The Floating Lightbulb) Thats the closest I've come.

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Updated On: 10/23/05 at 09:32 PM

My parents won a Tony Award this year for "glengarry glen ross" we have it in the living room. It's really pretty.
From what I heard, the tony committee makes you sign a contract stating that the TONY's must be sold back to them when the estate dies, cannot be sold on ebay..etc etc..

Amneris, do you mind me asking for which category your parents won? That's such a wonderful accomplishment! I'd be bragging like nobody's business!

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I saw a Tony show up on eBay a few years ago. It was kind of a shock.

It was Shirley Booth's for Best Actress in a Play from "Come Back Little Sheba." This, along with a few Oscars that have come up for sale elsewhere, have prompted the committees of the major performing awards to issue similar statements, saying basically that these awards are "on loan" to the recipients now, for however long they see fit. If the privilege of having the award is ever abused (aka, tyring to re-sell it, etc.) they can call the award back as their own property. The recipient or their extended families, etc., have no legal ownership rights. Something to that effect. Of course, this isn't retro-active, as far as older awards go. So you still might see a few of them come up for sale. But you can bet the American Theatre Wing, the Academy, etc., will do everything they can to block the sale.

Stephen Spielberg even went so far as to buy back an Oscar that came up on the blocks, and he then "donated" it right back to the Motion Picture Academy.

I find it all fascinating. Personally, I wouldn't want to own or have somebody else's award, unless it was a family heirloom. But apparently, there's a huge market of rich people who feel otherwise.

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