Wagner create the stage world of 'The Producers,' 'Crazy for You,' 'Hair' and dozens more
Robin Wagner, the legendary Broadway set designer who created the stage worlds of “The Producers,” “Angels in America,” “Crazy for You”, “Hair,” “Dreamgirls” and dozens more, framed “ A Chorus Line” in black velour and mirrors, and once plopped Mick Jagger in the center of a chromium lotus for the Stones’ 1975 Tour of the Americas, has died at his Manhattan home.His theatrical output was staggering.
There was a time when designer Robin Wagner’s sets for “Hair,” “The Great White Hope” and “Promises, Promises” were all on Broadway stages at the same time. He left San Francisco for New York with a friend in 1957. “We arrived at the old 34th Street Terminal around 5 a.m.,” he once told a theater audience, “and the one place we wanted to go was to Broadway. So we ran to Times Square and grabbed some coffee so we could watch the sun rise in Shubert Alley. I had no idea if I would ever work in the theater in New York, but that was my street of dreams. And I still get excited when I walk across that alley.
“There are 1,000 moving parts. And just when you think you’re on top of it, some part blows out and you have to rebuild it. It’s like a bubbling soup and you try to dance on it. But you never know when it’s going to boil over. And everybody’s hungry.” Later, Wagner worked in a sunny corner studio at 890 Broadway, a place where Broadway musicals have rehearsed for years. Old drawings were in drawers, blueprints were tacked up on the walls and models neatly assembled either on top of tables or on shelves below.
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