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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. His career was launched with his designs for Léonide Massine's ballet Saratoga in 1941 and de Mille's Rodeo in 1942. Waupun is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Wisconsin: Waupun, Dodge County, Wisconsin Waupun, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (commonly known as Penn State) is a state-related land-grant university in Pennsylvania, with over 80,000 students at 24 campuses throughout the state. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1676 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area... Leonard Bernstein (pronounced BERN-styne)[1] (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, and pianist. ... Jerome Robbins in Three virgins and a devil. ... Carson McCullers, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1959 Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) was an American writer. ... Agnes de Mille in “3 Virgins and a Devil”, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941 Agnes George de Mille (September 18, 1905 – October 7, 1993) was an American dancer and choreographer. ... Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin (August 9, 1896–March 15, 1979) was a Russian choreographer and ballet dancer. ... Painting of ballet dancers by Edgar Degas, 1872. ... Rodeo is a ballet score written by American composer Aaron Copland 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. Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... The Fantasticks was the longest-running musical in history. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Guys and Dolls Original Broadway Cast recording (1950) Guys And Dolls is a hit 1950 musical. ... The Band Wagon is a musical comedy film, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1953, which tells the story of an aging musical star who wants to star in a Broadway play that will restart his career. ... Oklahoma! (1943) was the first musical play written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II (see Rodgers and Hammerstein). ... The cast of Porgy and Bess during the Boston try-out prior to the Broadway opening. ... The Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy. ... La traviata, an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, takes as its basis the novel La dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, published in 1848. ... The American Ballet Theatre , based in New York City, is one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century, and a leading company in America. ... On the Town is a musical that opened on Broadway at the Adelphi Theatre on December 28, 1944, with music by Leonard Bernstein, book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, direction by George Abbott, and choreography by Jerome Robbins. ...

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. New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ... Tisch School of the Arts (known more commonly as Tisch or TSOA) is one of the 15 schools that make up New York University (NYU). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

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. The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. ...

Smith died of emphysema in Brooklyn, New York. For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ...

Notable productions

• 1982: 84 Charing Cross Road
• 1979: Carmelina
• 1978: First Monday in October
• 1973: The Women
• 1970: Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen
• 1969: Dear World; The Last of the Red Hot Lovers
• 1968: Plaza Suite
• 1967: I Do! I Do!; Illya Darling
• 1966: Breakfast at Tiffany's
• 1966: Show Boat
• 1965: Baker Street; The Odd Couple; On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; Cactus Flower
• 1964: Hello, Dolly!; Ben Franklin in Paris; Luv
• 1963: Barefoot in the Park
• 1961: The Night of the Iguana
• 1960: Camelot; The Unsinkable Molly Brown; Becket
• 1959: The Sound of Music
• 1958: Flower Drum Song
• 1957: West Side Story; Brigadoon (revival); Carousel
• 1956: My Fair Lady; Auntie Mame; Candide
• 1955: Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
• 1954: On Your Toes
• 1953: Carnival in Flanders
• 1951: Paint Your Wagon
• 1949: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• 1947: High Button Shoes
• 1944: On the Town

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I Do! is a 1966 Broadway musical based on the Jan de Hartog play The Fourposter with book and lyrics by Tom Jones and Score by Harvey Schmidt. ... Illya Darling is a musical with a book by Jules Dassin, music by Manos Hadjidakis, and lyrics by Joe Darion. ... Studio recording Breakfast at Tiffanys is one of the most notorious flops in the history of Broadway musicals. ... Show Boat is a musical in two acts with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. One notable exception is the song Bill, which was originally written for Kern in 1918 by P. G. Wodehouse but reworked by Hammerstein for Show Boat, and two songs... Baker Street was a Broadway musical with a book by Jerome Coopersmith and music and lyrics by Marian Grudeff and Raymond Jessel. ... 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The musical, Camelot, was written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe and is loosely based on the King Arthur legend as adapted from the T.H. White novel The Once and Future King. ... The Unsinkable Molly Brown is a musical play which tells the fictionalized account of the life of Margaret Brown, whose husband made a fortune in the Colorado gold mines, and who survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic. ... Becket or the Honor of God is a Tony Award-winning play written in French by Jean Anouilh. ... The 1959 Original Broadway Cast Recording album cover The Sound of Music is a Broadway musical based on the book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. ... Flower Drum Song was orignally a a novel by Chinese American author C.Y. Lee. ... For The Games song, see Westside Story (song). ... DVD cover Brigadoon is a musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, first produced in 1947. ... Carousel is a 1945 stage musical by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics) that was adapted from Ferenc Molnars play Liliom. ... The original poster for the Broadway production of the show designed by Al Hirschfeld My Fair Lady is a 1956 musical theater production with lyrics and book by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. ... Broadway poster Auntie Mame is a 1955 novel by Patrick Dennis that chronicles his madcap adventures growing up as the ward of his deceased fathers eccentric sister. ... Candide, ou lOptimisme, (Candide, or Optimism) (1759) is a picaresque novel by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. ... Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? is a 1957 20th Century Fox comedy motion picture starring Jayne Mansfield, with Tony Randall, Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, John Williams, Henry Jones, Lili Gentle, Mickey Hargitay, and a cameo by Groucho Marx. ... On Your Toes has two possible meanings. ... Carnival in Flanders is a musical with a book by Preston Sturges, lyrics by Johnny Burke, and music by Jimmy Van Heusen. ... Paint Your Wagon is a 1951 Broadway musical comedy, with book and lyrics by Alan J. Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, set in a mining camp in Gold Rush-era California. ... Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a novel written by Anita Loos that was published in 1925, a Broadway play produced in 1926, a Broadway musical produced in 1949, which Loos also wrote the book for, and two motion pictures. ... High Button Shoes is a musical theater production, first staged at the New Century Theatre on Broadway on October 9, 1947. ... On the Town is a musical that opened on Broadway at the Adelphi Theatre on December 28, 1944, with music by Leonard Bernstein, book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, direction by George Abbott, and choreography by Jerome Robbins. ...

Reference

Oliver Smith: A Bio-Bibliography by Tom Mikotowicz, published by Greenwood Press, 1993

External link

Internet Broadway Database listing