Tony Award-Winning Costume Designer Theoni V. Aldredge Dies

Aldredge, who had over 80 Broadway credits to her name, won Tony Awards for her designs for the original productions of La Cage Aux Folles, Barnum, and Annie. In addition, she received nominations for her work on the 2001 revival of Follies, The Secret Garden, the original production of Dreamgirls, the 1990 revival of Gypsy, Ballroom, 42nd Street, the original production of A Chorus Line, The Threepenny Opera in 1977, The au Pair Man, Much Ado About Nothing, the musical Two Gentlemen of Verona, and The Devil’s Advocate.

She was equally prolific Off-Broadway, particularly with the New York Shakespeare Festival, where her many credits include the production of The Merchant of Venice, which opened the Delacorte Theatre, and the original production of Hair.

Aldredge received the Academy and British Film Academy Awards for her designs for The Great Gatsby, starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow. She received two other Oscar nominations, for Never on Sunday and a 1963 film version of Phaedra that starred Anthony Perkins.

Among the other honors bestowed on Aldredge during her career: two Obie Awards and six Drama Desk Awards. Additionally, she received the Costume Designers Guild Career Achievement Award in 2000 and the Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002.

She is survived by her husband, actor Tom Aldredge.