Howard Bay | |
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| Born | (1912-05-03)3 May 1912 |
| Died | 21 November 1986(1986-11-21) (aged 74) Manhattan,New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Designer |
Howard Bay (May 3, 1912 – November 21, 1986, New York City) was an American scenic, lighting and costume designer for stage, opera and film. He won theTony Award for Best Scenic Design twice.
Howard Bay was born inCentralia, Washington to parents who were teachers; his father was an art teacher, his mother an English teacher. Over 50 years he designed the sets and lighting, as well as occasionally the costumes, for some 105 Broadway plays and musicals as well as operas and television shows.[1]
Bay designed sets for theFederal Theatre Project in New York City, for four operas for the National Orchestral Association, performed atCarnegie Hall, 1939–1940 and for the operasCapriccio andNatalya Petrovna for theNew York City Opera, 1965.[2]
Bay first designed the sets forBroadway for the playChalk Dust in 1936. In the field of musicals, he designed, among others, sets and lighting forShow Boat (1946),The Music Man (1957) andFinian's Rainbow (1955 [sets], 1960). He designed the original sets, lighting and costumes forMan of La Mancha in 1965 and all revivals. For dramas, for example, he designed the sets and lighting forThe Little Foxes (1967),My Mother, My Father and Me (1963),Toys in the Attic (1960), andThe Big Knife (1949).
For television he was the Art director for theFred Waring Show,CBS, 1953–1955;Somerset Maugham Theatre, CBS and NBC, 1954–1956, andMr. Broadway, CBS, 1964.[2]
He worked on the filmsThe Exile (1947) andUp in Central Park (1948), as the production designer.
He taught theater arts atBrandeis University for 14 years.[1] Bay was president of United Scenic Artists for many years.[3]
He married Ruth Jonas on November 23, 1932, and they had two children, Ellen and Timothy.[2] He died of amyocardial infarction in 1986.[4]
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