Robin Wagner, Tony-Winning Set Designer of ‘The Producers,’ Dies at 89

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Robin Wagner, Tony-Winning Set Designer of ‘The Producers,’ Dies at 89
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Wagner also received Tony Awards for his work on 'City of Angels' and 'On the Twentieth Century' and was nominated for numerous other productions, including 'Dreamgirls,' 'Angels in America' and 'Young Frankenstein.'

in 2001 — and received a total of 10 Tony nominations throughout his career for such productions as Kiss Me, Kate.

Born on August 31, 1933, in San Francisco, Wagner graduated from Balboa High School and by accident fell into set design after attending art school for two years at the Palace of Fine Arts, which eventually became the California School of Fine Arts. “I got into it simply because I loved theatre. When I started out — I was 20 years old — I hadn’t studied anything about theatre. Then suddenly I began going and fell in love with it. I wanted to figure out some way I could be around it. So I started running a light board at a place called the Theatre Arts Colony in San Francisco, where I was born,”

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