BOSTON, MASS.- Mary Martins Tony Award for The Sound of Music sold on Thursday for $43,750 according to Boston, MA based
RR Auction.
Exceedingly desirable American Theater Wing Antoinette Perry Award, commonly known as the Tony, engraved on the reverse: The American Theatre Wing Presents to Mary Martin This Award for her Performance in The Sound of Music, 195960. The front of the medal features the traditional symbolic dramatic masks raised in relief, encircled with the text, Antoinette Perry Award.
Originally acquired from the estate of Martins son, actor Larry Hagman. Martin was one of Rodgers and Hammersteins darling actresses and cast as Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music in the original Broadway production of the iconic musical, which opened on November 16, 1959.
All together, the show took home six Tony Awards in 1960, including Best Musical. This award represents Martins third and final Tony win.
Martin died a month before her 77th birthday from colorectal cancer on November 3, 1990, and is buried in City Greenwood Cemetery in Weatherford, Texas.
An iconic piece honoring one of the most famous musicals of all-time, said Bobby Livingston, Exec VP at RR Auction.
Highlights from the sale include, but are not limited by:
Extensive archive of material owned by and related to Hollywood B-movie cult figure Ed Wood, sold for $13,750.
A rare archive celebrating Jimmie Rodgers, The Father of Country Music, sold for $5,625.
The live auction event was held on March 19 at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, MA.