![]() ![]() “In the first seven lines of ‘Hamlet,’ you learn everything you need to know - the place, time, weather, situation and all the characters’ names. “Go back to Shakespeare,” Wagner would often say. ![]() “A Chorus Line’s” set was so minimal, he liked to say, that once you added the white line on the floor, “That’s all you needed to do the show. ![]() For Larry Gelbart’s “City of Angels,” a musical comedy thriller about private eyes, moviemaking and Hollywood romance, he came up with 46 scene changes - one every three or four minutes. The versatility of his work was similarly impressive. Between 19, he designed 63 Broadway plays and musicals, according to his daughter Christie Wagner Lee, garnering Tony Awards for the original Broadway productions of “The Producers,” “On the Twentieth Century” and “City of Angels.” Another seven of his shows brought him Tony nominations. ![]() Wagner, who died in his sleep May 29, was 89. 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. ![]()
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