PhotosPHOTO ARCHIVE: Remembering the Costume Designs of Martin PakledinazPlaybill.com takes a look back at the career of Tony-winning costume designer Martin Pakledinaz, who died July 8. Some of his best-known work includes Kiss Me, Kate; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Wonderful Town; Grease; The Pajama Game and Anything Goes.
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Matthew Blank
July 09, 2012
Mr. Pakledinaz fabricated costumes for classics (Hedda Gabler, The Father, Hamlet, Summer and Smoke) and modern plays (Golden Child, Cellini), but was perhaps best known for his vibrant work on musicals like the 1999 Broadway revival of Kiss Me, Kate and Thoroughly Modern Millie, for which he won a Tony Award in 2002.
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PHOTO ARCHIVE: From The Life to Nice Work...; Remembering the Costume Designs of Martin Pakledinaz
PHOTO ARCHIVE: From The Life to Nice Work...; Remembering the Costume Designs of Martin Pakledinaz
Playbill.com takes a look back at the career of Tony-winning Martin Pakledinaz, who died July 8, 2012. Some of his best-known work includes Kiss Me, Kate, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Wonderful Town, Grease, The Pajama Game and Anything Goes. Read the Playbill.com story.
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The cast of You Never Can Tell, 1987
Joan Marcus
Amanda Plummer and Uta Hagen in You Never Can Tell, 1987
Joan Marcus
Stephen Lang and Kathleen Widdoes in Hamlet, 1992
Joan Marcus
Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson in Anna Christie, 1993
Joan Marcus
Victoria Clark, Jason Graae, Lynne Wintersteller and Alyson Reed in A Grand Night for Singing, 1993
He was a particular favorite of director-choreographer Kathleen Marshall, who called on him to lend the appropriate period fizz on Broadway revivals of Wonderful Town, Grease, The Pajama Game and Anything Goes, as well as the new musical using old Gershwin songs, Nice Work If You Can Get It.
He worked frequently for the Roundabout Theatre Company, where he was championed early on by artistic director Todd Haimes, who, Mr. Pakledinaz once said, "liked my brain."
He was nominated for Tony Awards ten times, for The Life, Golden Child, Kiss Me, Kate, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Pajama Game, Gypsy, Blithe Spirit, Anything Goes and Nice Work If You Can Get It. He won for Millie and Kate. He won an Obie Award in 1999 for his swinging, club-scene-like costumes for a CSC production of Moliere's The Misanthrope starring Uma Thurman and Roger Rees.
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