Alvin Colt

Costume designer

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BROADWAY More than 50 productions including: If you ever leave me…I’m going with you! • Waiting in the Wings • Jerome Robbins’ Broadway • Broadway Follies • Lorelei • Sugar • Golden Rainbow • Henry, Sweet Henry • The Imaginary Invalid • The Beauty Part • The Aspern Papers • Wildcat • Say, Darling • The Goodbye People • The Crucible • The Seagull • Here’s Love • Wildcat • Greenwillow • Destry Rides Again • First Impressions • Blue Denim • Li’l Abner • The Sleeping Prince • Six Characters in Search of an Author • Pipe Dream • The Lark • Phoenix ’55 • Finian’s Rainbow • Fanny • The Golden Apple • Top Banana • Guys and Dolls • Music in My Heart • Barefoot Boy with Cheek • Around the World • On the Town OFF BROADWAY Forbidden Broadway (numerous productions) • Mr. President • Forbidden Hollywood • Abe Lincoln in Illinois • The Infernal Machine • Mary Stuart • Livin’ the Life • Diary of a Scoundrel • The Littlest Revue • A Month in the Country • Miss Julie/The Stronger • Six Characters in Search of an Author • The Carefree Tree • Coriolanus • Madam Will You Wish TV AND FILM Top Banana • Stiletto • Li’l Abner • The Enchanted Nutcracker • Kiss Me Kate • The Adams Chronicles • the 30th Annual Tony Awards • CBS ‘On the Air’; Happy 100th Birthday Hollywood • The Night of 100 Stars • NBC’s 60th Anniversary Celebration • Tony Award Shows • Emmy Award Shows • The Placido Domingo Special • MGM Theme Park Opening • Liza Minnelli’s Triple Play • The Adams Chronicles INDUSTRIAL SHOWS Presentations for Buick, Oldsmobile, Ford, Chrysler • the General Motors Motorama • Milliken Breakfast Shows OTHER Exhibition in 2007 at the Museum of the City of New York: Costumes and Characters: The Designs of Alvin Colt • Tony Award winner (4 nominations) • Emmy Award winner (4 nominations) • recipient of the TDF/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award • member of the Theatre Hall of Fame • had one of the most enduring careers of any costume designer on Broadway

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  • CBS 50th Anniversary “On the Air” Celebration
  • CBS 50th Anniversary “On the Air” Celebration
  • CBS 50th Anniversary “On the Air” Celebration
  • Broadway Follies - Costume Design for Kitty Kuhn
  • Broadway Follies - Costume Design for Karen Teti
  • Broadway Follies - Costume Design for Darcy Phifer
  • Broadway Follies - Costume Design for Nancy Meadows and Brad Hiskell
  • Costume Design for<i>ParkAvenue/Electra Automotive Presentation
  • Buick Automotive Presentation, 1960s
  • Buick Automotive Presentation, 1960s
  • Design for 1920’s Style Costumes
  • Design for 1920’s Style Costumes
  • Design for 1920’s Style Costumes
  • Afternoon of a Black Faun - Costume design for Man with a white hat
  • Afternoon of a Black Faun - Costume design for Woman with a white hat