# @mandykaymarketing on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CtXyBg_AdKf
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11776707-mandykaymarketing-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-06-12T01:20:41.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Mandy Kay Marketing (@mandykaymarketing) — https://gondola.cc/mandykaymarketing

## Caption

To celebrate this year’s thetonyawards, here_in_ny created this special video on the history of the Awards in partnership with museumofbroadway and featuring the iconic, giant Tony in the lobby!! 🎭

Repost here_in_ny 

Why do we call it the Tony Awards? With the countdown to Broadway’s biggest night, I headed over to the museumofbroadway to see a larger than life Tony Award and more than a dozen real ones that are one display.

The Tonys is just the nickname, but its full name is The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre.

Antoinette Perry was an actress, director, producer and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing. After her death, friends wanted to honor her contributions to theater and created an award celebrating excellence in theater...and that’s the Tonys. 

The first one happened in 1947 at the Waldorf Astoria. The first two years winners didn’t get an award like this. They received a piece of paper and either a gold money clip or compact.

It wasn’t until 1949 that this medallion became the award. By 1968 it was mounted on a pedestal and has looked the same since then. 

The giant Tony Award at the Museum of Broadway is the one that has been previously used on the red carpet as the stars arrive at the ceremony.

#nychistory #museumofbroadwaypartner #museumofbroadway #newyorkcity #nycmuseums #broadway #nyctheatre #nyctour #nyctravel #nyclife #thingstodoinnyc #discovernyc #welovenyc #iloveny #tonyawards

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newyorkcity, nychistory, thingstodoinnyc, museumofbroadwaypartner, broadway, welovenyc, nyctour, nyctravel, iloveny, nyctheatre, tonyawards, museumofbroadway, nycmuseums, discovernyc, nyclife

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