Tony Award Winning Costume Designer Alvin Colt Has Died

Tony Award winning costume designer Alvin Colt has died at 92. 

Colt designed clothing for Broadway and Off-Broadway for more than sixty years. With shows such as the original Guys and Dolls (1950) and Pipe Dream (1956), for which he received a Tony Award. His designs have truly stamped the Broadway stage.

A graduate of Yale University with a degree in drama and a member of the Theatre Hall of Fame since 2001, Colt worked with theatre greats such as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Josh Logan, Kermit Bloomgarden, David Merrick, Ginger Rogers, Irene Worth, Robert Morse, Ute Hagan, Lucille Ball, Montgomery Clift, Alfred Drake and Eva LeGallienne.

Colt won a Tony Award for his costume designs for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Pipe Dream, and was also nominated for Greenwillow, The Sleeping Prince, L'il Abner, The Lark and Phoenix '55. Other notable Broadway credits include the original productions of Guys and Dolls, Fanny, The Golden Apple, Destry Rides Again, Greenwillow, Wildcat, Henry, Sweet Henry, Sugar and Jerome Robbins' Broadway, as well as productions of Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Seagull, The Crucible, and many more.

No information about a memorial service has been released.