Alvin Colt

Tony Award winning costume designer Alvin Colt dies at 92

Alvin Colt, a Tony-winning costume designer whose work spanned more than 60 years of theater from "On the Town" to the "Forbidden Broadway" revues, has died. He was 92.

Colt died Sunday of natural causes at Roosevelt Hospital, his niece said.

Colt's first show was "On the Town," the 1944 musical about sailors on a 24-hour shore leave in New York.

Among the more than 50 shows Colt worked on during his lengthy career were "Guys and Dolls" (1950), "Top Banana" (1951), Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Pipe Dream" (1955) -- for which he won a Tony -- "The Lark" (1955), "Li'l Abner" (1956), "Destry Rides Again" (1959) and "Here's Love" (1963).

In his later years, Colt was known for his outlandish costumes for "Forbidden Broadway," a long-running series of revues that spoof Broadway shows.

When the latest revue, "Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening," returns to New York in late June from an engagement in Miami, it will include Colt's last design -- a version of a dress Patti LuPone wears in the current revival of "Gypsy."

A native of Kentucky, Colt graduated from Yale. In between theater assignments, he worked extensively in television and on several films.