Famed Broadway Costumer Florence Klotz's Tony Award for Sale on eBay
#2
Posted: 2/3/09 at 10:57am
I'll earn my own, thank you.
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#3
Posted: 2/3/09 at 11:09pm
Well 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.
#4
Posted: 2/3/09 at 11:34pm
Hmph.
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#5
Posted: 2/4/09 at 1:24am
I'm not sure why, but this makes me sad.
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#6
Posted: 2/4/09 at 1:55am
Poor 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. ?
#7
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.
But I'm sure Flossie is plotzing and Ruthie is perturbed.
Updated On: 2/4/09 at 05:37 AM
#8
Posted: 2/4/09 at 9:03am
I think it's really sad too. Didn't she have any family that even wanted it?
#9
Posted: 2/4/09 at 11:33am
When GRIND was running there weren't too many other shows to give awards to. It pretty much won it by default.
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#10
Posted: 2/4/09 at 11:44am
I remember. And her costumes actually were great, as always.
But what a turkey that was.
But what a turkey that was.
#11
Posted: 2/4/09 at 12:07pm
Yeah, 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.
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#12
Posted: 2/4/09 at 2:06pm
Whatever the ethics of selling her award, she had an extremely impressive CV.
#13
Posted: 2/4/09 at 2:14pm
One of her Tony-award-winning designs for Grind:
#14
Posted: 2/5/09 at 7:27am
Her Tony Award SOLD for $20,000!
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#15
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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#16
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.
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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