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Oliver Smith (February 13, 1918–January 23, 1994) was an American scenic designer. ==Biography== Born in Waupun, Wisconsin, Smith attended Penn State, after which he moved to New York City and began to form friendships that blossomed into working relationships with such talents as Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Carson McCullers, and Agnes de Mille. In his early 20s he lived at February House in Brooklyn with a coterie of famous people centered around George Davis and W. H. Auden. He tended the furnace, washed the dishes, and soothed the tempers of both residents and visitors. His career was launched with his designs for Léonide Massine's ballet ''Saratoga'' in 1941 and de Mille's ''Rodeo'' in 1942. Smith designed dozens of Broadway musicals, films (''Guys and Dolls'', ''The Band Wagon'', ''Oklahoma!'', ''Porgy and Bess''), and operas (''La Traviata''). His association with the American Ballet Theatre began in 1944, when he collaborated with Robbins and Bernstein on ''Fancy Free'', which served as the inspiration for ''On the Town''. The following year, he became Co-Director of ABT with Lucia Chase, a position he held until 1980. He designed the sets for ABT's complete 1967 production of ''Swan Lake'', the first full-length version mounted by an American company. Smith also trained young designers for many years, serving on the faculty of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he taught master classes in scenic design. Throughout his career, Smith was nominated for twenty-five Tony Awards, often multiple times in the same year, and won ten. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work on ''Guys and Dolls''. Smith was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981.〔("26 Elected to the Theater Hall of Fame." ) ''The New York Times'', March 3, 1981.〕 In 2011, Smith was inducted into the National Museum of Dance's Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney Hall of Fame. Smith died of emphysema in Brooklyn, New York. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oliver Smith (designer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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