Oliver Smith
Designer – notable contributions to the Theatre, Films, Ballet & Opera. Since 1944, when he designed and sponsored the now historic musical “On The Town”, his Broadway musicals include “My Fair Lady”, “West Side Story”, “The Sound Of Music”, “Brigadoon”, and “Hello Dolly”. He also designed the Metropolitan operas “Martha” and “La Travista”, the ballets “Fancy Free” and “Fall River Legend” and the films “Guys and Dolls”, “Oklahoma”, and “Porgy & Bess”. His Broadway plays include “Night of the Iguana”, “Barefoot in the Park”, “The Odd Couple”, “Plaza Suite”, and “Last of the Red Hot Lovers”. He often combined decor with producing as he did for “In the Summer House”, “Clearing in the Woods”, “No Exit”, “Billion Dollar Baby”, “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, “Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright”, “Natural Affection” and “Indians”. He was also a highly regarded painter, whose works have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Chicago Institute of Fine Arts.
Past productions
- Designer, West Side Story
- Waiter/Gendarme/Shopkeeper, The Government Inspector, Compass
- Designer, I Do, I Do!, Starchoice Season Ltd
- Designer, Gigi
- Set Desiner, The Great Waltz, Bernard Delfont & Harold Fielding’s “Great Waltz” Company
- Designer, Plaza Suite
- Designer, Plaza Suite
- Designer, Cactus Flower
- Designer ('Scenic Production'), I Do, I Do!, H M Tennent Ltd
- Designer, Hello, Dolly!
- Designer, The Odd Couple, H M Tennent Ltd and Saint Subber
- Designer, The Sound of Music
- Designer, Barefoot in the Park, Arthur Lewis and Bernard Delfont
- Setting by, Mary, Mary, H M Tennent Ltd and Roger L Stevens
- Designer, My Fair Lady
- Designer, Mary, Mary, H M Tennent Ltd and Roger L Stevens
- Designer, My Fair Lady, H M Tennent Ltd
- Designer, The Sound of Music
- Designer & Costumes, Sail Away
- Scenic Production, Flower Drum Song, Williamson Music Ltd
- Set designer, Becket
- Designer, Five Finger Exercise
- Designer, Flower Drum Song
- Designer, Auntie Mame
- Designer, West Side Story
- Designer, West Side Story, H M Tennent Ltd, Robert E Griffiths and Harold S Prince
- Set Designer, West Side Story, H.M. Tennent Ltd./Robert E. Griffith/Harold S.Prince
- Production Designer, My Fair Lady
- Designer, Pal Joey