Carrie Robbins Dies: Broadway Costume Designer From Poodle Skirts Of ‘Grease’ To Holiday Gowns Of ‘White Christmas’ Was 81
deadline.comCarrie Robbins, whose more than 30 years as a Broadway costume designer saw her involvement in 1972’s Grease, for which she contributed the production’s signature poodle skirts, and the nuns’ habits of 1983’s Agnes of God, died following a brief illness with Covid on Friday, April 12, at Mt.
Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. She was 81. Her death was announced by her friend Daniel Neiden. Robbin’s Broadway career began somewhat inauspiciously with Leda and the Little Swan, a play that closed on Broadway before its scheduled opening at the Cort Theatre in 1968.
Written by Amber Gascoigne and dealing with sex between generations of one family, Leda was called by William Goldman in his classic theater book The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway “the hardest show of the season to sit through.” Robbins rebounded quickly on Broadway with a revival of You Can’t Take It With You the following year, and, in 1970, The Good Woman of Setzuan.
Her major break came in ’72 with Grease, which ran for eight years. A long stream of Broadway productions would follow: The Plough and the Stars, The Iceman Cometh, The Beggar’s Opera, The Crucible, Macbeth, An Enemy of the People, The Time of Your Life, Yentl, The Boys of Winter and The Shadow Box, among others.
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