Famed Broadway Costumer Florence Klotz's Tony Award for Sale on eBay
Famed Broadway Costumer Florence Klotz's Tony Award for Sale on eBay
EddieVarley
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/4/04
#2re: Famed Broadway Costumer Florence Klotz's Tony Award for Sale on eBay
Posted: 2/3/09 at 10:57amI'll earn my own, thank you.
--Aristotle
amstand72
Swing Joined: 2/3/09
#2re: Famed Broadway Costumer Florence Klotz's Tony Award for Sale on eBay
Posted: 2/3/09 at 11:09pmWell that's interesting. You know you could still claim to have "won" a Tony - you'd just have to omit the small detail that you'd won it ON EBAY.
#3re: Famed Broadway Costumer Florence Klotz's Tony Award for Sale on eBay
Posted: 2/3/09 at 11:34pmHmph.
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miss pennywise
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#4re: Famed Broadway Costumer Florence Klotz's Tony Award for Sale on eBay
Posted: 2/4/09 at 1:24amI'm not sure why, but this makes me sad.
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#5re: Famed Broadway Costumer Florence Klotz's Tony Award for Sale on eBay
Posted: 2/4/09 at 1:55amPoor Flo is prob rolling in her grave. Then again maybe things like this didn't matter to her and her family knows she'd rather they have th emoney they migth get from it. ?
#6re: Famed Broadway Costumer Florence Klotz's Tony Award for Sale on eBay
Posted: 2/4/09 at 5:37am
The real mystery is how anyone won a Tony for a show as ugly as Grind.
But I'm sure Flossie is plotzing and Ruthie is perturbed.
snowskittle
Leading Actor Joined: 1/10/09
#7re: Famed Broadway Costumer Florence Klotz's Tony Award for Sale on eBay
Posted: 2/4/09 at 9:03amI think it's really sad too. Didn't she have any family that even wanted it?
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#8re: Famed Broadway Costumer Florence Klotz's Tony Award for Sale on eBay
Posted: 2/4/09 at 11:33amWhen GRIND was running there weren't too many other shows to give awards to. It pretty much won it by default.
#9re: Famed Broadway Costumer Florence Klotz's Tony Award for Sale on eBay
Posted: 2/4/09 at 11:44am
I remember. And her costumes actually were great, as always.
But what a turkey that was.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#10re: Famed Broadway Costumer Florence Klotz's Tony Award for Sale on eBay
Posted: 2/4/09 at 12:07pmYeah, GRIND was pretty horrific. A couple of cool Fosse-doctored moments, especially a reverse striptease where the strippers put on their clothes as sexily as they would otherwise take them off.
#11re: Famed Broadway Costumer Florence Klotz's Tony Award for Sale on eBay
Posted: 2/4/09 at 2:06pmWhatever the ethics of selling her award, she had an extremely impressive CV.
#12re: Famed Broadway Costumer Florence Klotz's Tony Award for Sale on eBay
Posted: 2/4/09 at 2:14pm
One of her Tony-award-winning designs for Grind:
#13re: Famed Broadway Costumer Florence Klotz's Tony Award for Sale on eBay
Posted: 2/5/09 at 7:27amHer Tony Award SOLD for $20,000!
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miss pennywise
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#14re: Famed Broadway Costumer Florence Klotz's Tony Award for Sale on eBay
Posted: 2/5/09 at 11:21am
Maybe her family really needed the money. And maybe whoever bought it is going to donate it to the Gershwin Theatre Hall of Fame or whatever it's called.
I thought her costumes for CITY OF ANGELS were brilliant, BTW.
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#15re: Famed Broadway Costumer Florence Klotz's Tony Award for Sale on eBay
Posted: 2/5/09 at 6:44pm
I'd buy one of her sketches if I only had the money, especially some of the Follies one recently up for auction.
Why aren't these things at the Lincoln Center Library? Their recent Female Desingers exhibit was marvelous, but I didn't notice much of Klotz's work. While it was a treat to see Mrs. Anna's hoopskirt from the original King and I, it would have been more of a treat to have seen one from Follies.
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