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Sean Kenny (23 December 1929 – 11 June 1973) was an Irish theatre and film scenic designer, costume designer, lighting designer and director. Kenny was most notable as the set designer for the musicals of Lionel Bart including ''Oliver!'', ''Lock Up Your Daughters'', and ''Blitz!''. ==Life== Kenny was born in Portroe, County Tipperary, Ireland in 1929. While he was still an architecture student, at the age of 20, Kenny and three others sailed from Ireland to New York in a 36' sailboat, "The Ituna" in 1950.〔(Inland Waterways News )〕 Kenny was a contributor to The Establishment, a standup satire and jazz club in London founded by Peter Cook and Nicholas Luard.〔(National Portrait Gallery – Portrait – NPG x88638; The Establishment Club' (John Fortune; John Bird; Unknown man; Hazel Woodvine; Unknown man; Dudley Moore; Peter Cook; Sean Kenny... )〕 In 1966, Kenny married model Judy Huxtable. She later described him as "regularly unfaithful," and left him to marry Peter Cook.〔(Judy Cook, "I was Peter Cook's wife – that's why Dudley Moore wanted me", ''Daily Mail'', 9 August 2008. Accessed 16 December 2012 )〕 Following his divorce, Kenny lived with the actress Judy Geeson until his sudden death from a heart attack and brain haemorrhage at the age of 43. In ''Stoned'' by Andrew Loog Oldham, Oldham pays tribute to Kenny as one of the brilliant and original minds working in London theatre in the 1960s, particularly for his work on Lionel Bart's musicals ''Oliver!'' and ''Lock Up Your Daughters''.〔''Stoned'', Andrew Loog Oldham, Secker & Warburg, 2000, pp. 314-317〕 In ''Stoned'', Kenny's partner Judy Geeson pays this tribute to him: "Sean had an unusual combination of abilities: he had the creativity to dream up a design. But he also had a brilliant engineer's brain so he didn't only dream it, he knew how to make it."〔''Stoned'', Andrew Loog Oldham, Secker & Warburg, 2000, p. 314〕 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「Sean Kenny (theatre designer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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