Logan Brewer - The Man Behind the Razmatazz

Television (Excerpts) – 1991

This 1991 story from magazine show Sunday profiles Logan Brewer: production designer on Kiwi TV classics (C’Mon, Hunter’s Gold), and producer of Terry and the Gunrunners and live ‘spectaculars’ like the 1990 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony. He talks through his career: learning about performing at England's National Theatre, and selling Aotearoa as “the last paradise” for Expo '92 in Seville — for which he is shown wrangling an extended shot of Kiri Te Kanawa and the NZ Symphony Orchestra, promoting fibreglass pohutukawa, and working with designer Grant Major.

The thing about the performing arts is, that it is never the work of one man; if you want to do that, you go off and paint or make pots. If you’re going to be in the performing arts, then it’s a collaborative effort. And the producer’s role is steering that effort, precisely to the very moment in time that it matters …
– Logan Brewer