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ALVIN COLT, “Forbidden Broadway’s
Costume Designer for the past decade,
also costumed numerous Broadway hits
and flops, 45 musicals 41 plays. A
Tony Award winner nominated 4 times
plus 4 times for TV’s Emmy Award,
recipient of the TDF/Irene Sharaff
Lifetime Achievement Award, and
membership in the Theatre Hall of Fame.
ALVIN COLT’s Costume Designs have been
an important and distinguished asset to
many memorable shows, both hits and
flops, from coast to coast. His
versatile talents have encompassed
every form of theatrical presentation:
Broadway, Television, Ballet, Opera,
Film, Nightclubs and Industrials.
Having been associated with more than
200 productions, he has collaborated
with the top directors, producers,
choreographers, art directors and
hundreds of stars.
He received his early theatre training
at the Yale School of Drama and after
designing settings at various summer
theatres, he designed Ballet décor and
costumes for the Ballet Caravan, the
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, the New
York City Ballet, and the American
Ballet Theatre. The original
production of Guy and Dolls, Lli’l
Abner, Destry Rides Again, Wildcat,
Fanny, The Lark, Golden Rainbow, The
Beauty Part, The Golden Apple, The
Sleeping Prince, Sugar, Here’s Love,
The Aspern Papers, Say Darling, Henry
Sweet Henry, Lorelei, Pipe Dream,
Greenwillow, Forbidden Broadway ’94,
Forbidden Broadway Hollywood, and
numerous others. In Los Angeles he
recreated his original costumes for
Guys and Dolls and Sugar and for new
productions of Annie Get Your Gun and
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. As
a charter member of the Phoenix
Theatre, he designed the costumes for
sixteen classics plus fifteen for the
National Repertory Theatre and “Hamlet”
for the Stratford Shakespeare Company.
A total of forth-six musicals and forty
plays.
Television viewers will recall hi
Costume Designs seen on all the major
networks. Among there were: Happy
Birthday Hollywood, The Night of 100
Stars I, II, III, NBC’s 60th
Anniversary Celebration, Fifteen Tony
Award Shows, Three Emmy Award Shows,
The Placido Domingo Special, The Disney-
MGM Theme Park Opening, CBS On The Air
(7 specials), Liza Minnelli’s Triple-
Play, Sam Found Out, and the highly
acclaimed PBS The Adams Chronicles, for
which over 2000 costumes were created
for the thirteen episode historical
drama. A total of ninety-four
Television productions.
Besides Broadway and Television, his
costumes have appeared in four major
operas, nine ballets, two World’s Fair
Extravaganzas, three feature films,
three New York City Center musical-
revivals, a 26 week soap-opera, and for
the once famous Copa girls. Industrial
shows have included spectacular
presentations for Buick, Oldsmobile,
Ford, Chrysler, the General Motors
Motorama, and the Milliken Breakfast
Shows. For five years he served as a
member of Broadway’s Tony Award
nominating committee.
A winner of the Theatre’s coveted Tony
Award, he has been nominated four times
and four times for Television’s Emmy
award. He is also the recipient of the
Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement
Award Presented by the Theatre Hall of
Fame.
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