Freddy Wittop was a Tony Award-winning costume designer. He also enjoyed secondary careers as a dancer and college professor. Born Frederick Wittop Koning in Bussum, the Netherlands, Wittop emigrated with his family to Brussels, where he apprenticed at the age of thirteen with the resident designer at the Brussels Opera. Moving to Paris in 1931, he designed for the Folies Bergère and other music halls, creating costumes for Mistinguett and Josephine Baker, among others. Wikipedia
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Won Broadway's 1964 Tony Award as Best Costume Designer for "Hello, Dolly!" He was also Tony-nominated five other times: in 1965 for "The Roar of the Greasepaint -- The Smell of the Crowd;" in 1967 for "I Do! I Do!;" in 1968 for "The Happy Time;" in 1970 www.imdb.com/name/nm1091730/
