Career
Colt worked on over 50 Broadway shows. His first job was in a theatrical fabric house, he also worked on painting scenery during the summer. On the Town was the first Broadway show he worked on in 1944.
His major Broadway credits include Guys and Dolls, Top Banana, Fanny, Finian"s Rainbow, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Destry Rides Again, Wildcat, Here"s Love, The Crucible, The Goodbye People, Sugar, Lorelei, Jerome Robbins" Broadway and Waiting in the Wings for producer Alexander H. Cohen, with whom he had a long working relationship.
The last official show he worked on was in 2001 for If you ever leave medical .I"m going with you! Mr. Colt also designed for television and film.
Among his screen credits are costume designs for the films Top Banana, Stiletto and Li"l Abner and for the television productions of The Enchanted Nutcracker, Kiss Maine Kate, The Adams Chronicles, Columbia Broadcasting System: On the Air, Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood and many years of the Tony Awards. Alvin also designed the children"s musical Treehouse Trolls Birthday Day for Goodtimes Entertainment.
He was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 2002.
In 2007 the Museum of the City of New York offered the exhibition "Costumes and Characters: The Designs of Alvin Colt," and the Museum is now the home of many of his costume sketches. Colt died of natural causes on May 4, 2008 in New York City.