Tony Award winner William Ivey Long has won six of the coveted awards for Best Costume Design: Nine (1982), Crazy for You (1992), The Producers (2001), Hairspray (2003), Grey Gardens (2007), and Cinderella (2013).
Long has designed over 70 shows on Broadway, including the currently running productions of Chicago, Tootsie, and Beetlejuice. He has also designed Lend Me a Tenor, Six Degrees of Separation, Guys and Dolls (1992), Smokey Joe's Cafe, Cabaret (1998), The Boy from Oz, The Music Man, Contact, Young Frankenstein, Big Fish, and Bullets Over Broadway. His work for television includes costumes for Grease Live! and Fox’s Rocky Horror.
He was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2006 and elected chairman of the American Theatre Wing in 2012.Flip through the original costume sketches from a few of his shows below:
Nine – Carla
Nine – Chorus Girls
A Christmas Carol – Ebenezer Scrooge
William Ivey Long
Crazy For You – Chorus Girls
Guys and Dolls
Chicago – Velma Kelly
Chicago – Roxie Hart
The Music Man – Pickalittle Ladies
The Producers – Roger De Bris
Cabaret – Sally Bowles
Cabaret – The Kit-Kat Girls
Hairspray – Edna Turnblad
Hairspray – Edna Turnblad
La Cage aux Follies
Grey Gardens – Edith Bouvier Beale
Pal Joey – Vera Simpson
The Mystery of Edwin Drood – Edwin Drood
The Mystery of Edwin Drood – The Princess Puffer
Cinderella – Marie
Cinderella – Ella
Cinderella – Ella
Cinderella – Topher
On the Twentieth Century – Lily Garland
Murder on the Orient Express – Helen Hubbard
Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express – Princess Dragomiroff
Murder on the Orient Express – Countess Andrenyi
A Bronx Tale – Sonny and Calogero
A Bronx Tale
