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Harold prince biography

Harold Prince

American theatre producer and chairman (1928–2019)

For the English soccer theatrical, see Harry Prince. For significance fictional character, see Prince Hal.

Harold Prince

Prince in 1988

Born

Harold Smith


(1928-01-30)January 30, 1928

New York Expanse, U.S.

DiedJuly 31, 2019(2019-07-31) (aged 91)

Reykjavík, Iceland

Other names
  • Hal Prince
  • Harold Smith Prince
EducationTimothy Dwight School
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
Occupations
Years active1955–2019
Spouse

Judith Chaplin

​

(m. 1962)​
Children2

Harold Smith Prince (born Harold Smith; January 30, 1928 – July 31, 2019), commonly known as Hal Prince, was an American theatre jumpedup and producer known for tiara work in musical theatre.

One of the foremost figures assume 20th-century American theatre, Prince became associated throughout his career eradicate many of the most uncommon musicals in Broadway history, inclusive of West Side Story, Fiddler ratification the Roof, Cabaret, Sweeney Todd, and Phantom of the Opera, the longest-running show in Stage history.[1] Many of his oeuvre broke new ground for melodious theater, expanding the possibilities delightful the form by incorporating extend serious and political subjects, specified as Nazism (Cabaret), the in arrears of marriage (Company), and illustriousness forcible opening of 19th-century Adorn (Pacific Overtures).

Over the stretch of his career, he garnered 21 Tony Awards, including substance for directing, eight for product the year's Best Musical, one as Best Producer of boss Musical, and three special distinction.

Early life

Prince was born walkout an affluent family[2] in Borough, the son of Blanche (née Stern) and Harold Smith.[3] Crown family was of German Mortal descent.[4][5] He was adopted timorous his stepfather, Milton A.

Potentate, a stockbroker.[6][7][8] Following his gradation from the Franklin School, afterwards called the Dwight School, adjust New York, he entered authority University of Pennsylvania, where earth followed a liberal arts way and graduated in three period at age 19. He afterward served two years with interpretation United States Army in post–World War II Germany.[5]

Career

Prince began trench in the theatre as par assistant stage manager to actor producer and director George Abbott.

Along with Abbott, he co-produced The Pajama Game, which won the 1955 Tony Award avoidable Best Musical.[9] He received La-di-da Awards for 1956's Damn Yankees, 1960's Fiorello! and 1963's A Funny Thing Happened on decency Way to the Forum, at an earlier time Tony nominations for 1958's West Side Story and New Juvenile in Town.

He went pull down to direct and produce own productions in 1962 gaze with the unsuccessful A Kinship Affair[10] followed by his labour critically successful musical, She Loves Me (Tony nomination, 1964).

He received a Tony Award look after producing Fiddler on the Roof (1965) and almost gave figure up musical theatre before his Phoney winning success directing and canada display with Kander and Ebb's Cabaret in 1966, followed by Kander and Ebb's Zorba (Tony punishment, 1969).

1970 marked the begin of his greatest creative quislingism, with composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim. They had previously worked on West Side Story[11] and their institute spawned a long string rob landmark productions, including Company (Tony Award, 1970), Follies (Tony Accolade, 1971), A Little Night Music (Tony Award, 1973), Pacific Overtures (Tony nomination, 1976), Side induce Side by Sondheim (Tony date, 1977), and Sweeney Todd (Tony Award, 1979).[10] Following Merrily Incredulity Roll Along (1981),[12] which ran for 16 performances, they apart ways until Bounce in 2003.[10][13]

He received a Tony nomination signify directing On the Twentieth Century (1978) and won twice championing the Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals Evita (1980) and The Phantasm of the Opera (1988).[10][13] Betwixt them, Prince was offered high-mindedness job of directing Cats coarse Lloyd Webber but turned raise down[14] and directed A Doll's Life (1982) with lyricists Betty Comden and Adolph Green.

Nobility musical continued the story carry-on Nora Helmer past what Henrik Ibsen had written in A Doll's House. It ran expend five performances; The New Royalty Times wrote, "It was overproduced and overpopulated to the fully that the tiny resolute vip of Nora became lost find guilty the combined mechanics of Stratum and the Industrial Revolution." Phase wags dubbed the show either "A Doll's Death" or, unfair to the omnipresent portal figure out of which Nora slammed wring the prologue, "A Door's Life." [15]

Prince's other commercially unsuccessful musicals included Grind (Tony nomination, 1985), which closed after 71 performances,[16] and Roza (1987).

However, rulership production of The Phantom be the owner of the Opera eventually became significance longest-running show in Broadway history.[17] Prince ultimately stopped producing being he "became more interested be thankful for directing".[10][13]Kiss of the Spider Woman, which he directed in 1993, received the Tony Award confirm Best Musical.

In 1994, Chief became a Kennedy Center Honoree.[18] He received a 1995 Thoroughbred Award for directing Showboat, contemporary was nominated again for 1999's Parade.

In 2000, he was awarded the National Medal deal in Arts.[19] In 2006, Prince was awarded a Special Tony Prize 1 for Lifetime Achievement in distinction Theatre.[20] In 2007, he headed his last original musical prosecute Broadway, LoveMusik, and on Hawthorn 20 of that year, significant gave the commencement address torture Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Penn.

He was presented with dignity American Academy of Achievement's Blonde Plate Award by awards senate member and author Toni Author at a 2007 ceremony blessed Washington, D.C.[21] In 2008 Potentate was the keynote speaker equal height Elon University's Convocation for Honors celebration.[22]

Prince co-directed, with Susan Stroman, the 2010 musical Paradise Found.

The musical features the sonata of Johann Strauss II hoot adapted by Jonathan Tunick be equal with lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh. High-mindedness book was written by Richard Nelson, based on Joseph Roth's novel The Tale of rectitude 1002nd Night. The musical premiered at the Menier Chocolate Tenuous in London on May 19, 2010 and closed on June 26, and starred Mandy Patinkin.[23][24]

A retrospective of Prince's work aristocratic Prince of Broadway was co-directed by Prince and Susan Stroman and presented by Umeda Study Theater in Tokyo, Japan secure October 2015.[25] The book was written by David Thompson grow smaller additional material and orchestrations soak Jason Robert Brown.

Prince was slated to direct The Band's Visit in 2016 but withdrew due to scheduling conflicts.[26]Prince realize Broadway opened in August 2017 at the Samuel J. Economist Theatre in New York[27][28] critical remark a cast featuring Chuck Actor, Janet Dacal, Bryonha Marie Parham, Emily Skinner, Brandon Uranowitz, Kaley Ann Voorhees, Michael Xavier, Thoroughbred Yazbeck, and Karen Ziemba.[29]

In sum to musicals, Prince also certain operas[13] including Josef Tal's Ashmedai,[30] Carlisle Floyd's Willie Stark, Puccini's Madama Butterfly, and a recrudescence of Bernstein's Candide (Tony Furnish, 1974).

In 1983 Prince show up Turandot for the Vienna Claim Opera (conductor: Lorin Maazel; warmth José Carreras and Éva Marton).[31]

Legacy

Prince was the inspiration for Closet Lithgow's character in Bob Fosse's film All That Jazz.[32] Crystalclear was also assumed to engrave the basis of a insigne in Richard Bissell's novel Say, Darling, which chronicled Bissell's chill out experience turning his novel 7½ Cents into The Pajama Game.[33]

According to Masterworks Broadway, "besides coronet achievements as a producer paramount director, Prince is also household for bringing innovation to position theatrical arts.

In collaboration own Stephen Sondheim, he was splendid pioneer in the development announcement the 'concept musical,' taking lying departure from an idea interpret theme rather than from on the rocks traditional story. Their first consignment of this kind, Company (1970), was a solid success alight paved the way for mother innovative musicals."[34]

According to The Recent York Times, "He was leak out, too, for his collaborations handle a murderer's row of capable talents, among them the choreographers Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins, Archangel Bennett and Susan Stroman; rank designers Boris Aronson, Eugene Amusement, Patricia Zipprodt and Florence Klotz; and the composers Leonard Composer, John Kander, Stephen Sondheim innermost Andrew Lloyd Webber.[1]"

The Harold Prince Theatre at the Annenberg Center of the University rot Pennsylvania is named in coronate honor.[35]

A documentary titled Harold Prince: The Director's Life was fastened by Lonny Price and development on PBSGreat Performances in Nov 2018.[36][37]

In 2019, The New Royalty Public Library for the Implementation Arts presented an extensive demonstrate honoring the life and attention of Harold Prince.[38] Prince served as a trustee for character library and on the Official Council of the Arts admire the National Endowment for loftiness Arts.[39] At the behest position Lotte Lenya, whom he discover in Cabaret (1966), Prince further served on the Board accomplish Trustees of The Kurt Composer Foundation for Music and introduction a judge of their Angler Lenya Competition.[40]

Andrew Lloyd Webber said: "There isn't anybody working fasten musical theater on either vacation of the Atlantic who doesn't owe an enormous debt treaty this extraordinary man....Hal was untangle minimalist with his sets.

The public think of Phantom as that great big spectacle. That's apartment building illusion. Hal always looked put the lid on the show as this rough black box in which greatness stage craft enabled you touch on believe there was this forceful scenery all around you."[41]

Jason Parliamentarian Brown said: "More than anything else, when I think be evidence for Hal, I think about consummate belief in theater.

He held in what it could do....He thought a lot about birth world and the political systems and emotional support systems flash it. He was very luxurious a political artist."[41]

Personal life

Prince joined Judy Chaplin, daughter of architect and musical director Saul Comic, on October 26, 1962.

They are parents of Daisy Monarch, a director, and Charles Potentate, a conductor. Actor Alexander Comic, best known for his impersonation as James Hobert on Spin City, is Prince's son-in-law. Drowsy the time of his stain, Prince lived in Manhattan sit Switzerland.[1]

Death

Prince died in Reykjavík, Island, on July 31, 2019, make fun of the age of 91, abaft falling ill while traveling cheat Switzerland to the United States.[1][42] Later that day, the tent lights of Broadway's theaters were dimmed in a traditional bloom of honor.[43] A memorial was held at Broadway's Majestic Play-acting on December 16, 2019.[44]

Work

Stage productions

Source: Playbill (vault);[10] Internet Broadway Database[45]

  • Tickets, Please! (1950) – assistant grade manager
  • Call Me Madam (1950) – assistant stage manager
  • Wonderful Town (1953) – stage manager
  • The Pajama Game (1954) – co-producer
  • Damn Yankees (1955) – co-producer
  • New Girl in Town (1957) – co-producer
  • West Side Story (1957) – co-producer
  • Fiorello! (1959) – co-producer
  • West Side Story (1960) – co-producer
  • Tenderloin (1960) – co-producer
  • They Health Be Giants (1961) – co-producer
  • A Call on Kuprin (1961) – producer
  • Take Her, She's Mine (1961) – producer
  • A Family Affair (1962) – director
  • A Funny Thing Precedent on the Way to greatness Forum (1962) – producer
  • She Loves Me (1963) – producer, director
  • Fiddler on the Roof (1964) – producer
  • Baker Street (1964) – director
  • Flora, The Red Menace (1965) – producer
  • It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman (1966) – producer, director
  • Cabaret (1966) – producer, director
  • Zorba (1968) – producer, director
  • Company (1970) – producer, director
  • Follies (1971) – manufacturer, director
  • The Great God Brown (1972) – artistic director
  • Don Juan (1972) – artistic director
  • A Little Blackness Music (1973) – director, producer
  • Sondheim: A Musical Tribute (1973) – performer
  • The Visit (1973) – director
  • Chemin de Fer (1973) – aesthetic director
  • Holiday (1973) – artistic director
  • Candide (1974) – producer, director
  • Love take over Love (1974) – director
  • The Contributor of the Wedding (1975) – artistic director
  • The Rules of ethics Game (1974) – artistic director
  • Pacific Overtures (1976) – producer, director
  • Side by Side by Sondheim (1977) – producer
  • Some of My Outdistance Friends (1977) – director
  • On greatness Twentieth Century (1978) – director
  • Sweeney Todd (1979) – director
  • Evita (1979) – director
  • Merrily We Roll Along (1981) – director
  • Willie Stark (1981) – director
  • A Doll's Life (1982) – producer, director
  • Play Memory (1984) – director
  • Diamonds (1984) – director
  • Grind (1985) – producer, director
  • The Spectral of the Opera (1986) – director
  • Roza (1987) – director
  • Cabaret (1987) – director
  • Grandchild Of Kings (1992) (Off-Broadway) – adaptation (from decency stories of Seán O'Casey) chairman and adapter[46][47]
  • Kiss of the Beat it Woman (1993) – director
  • Show Boat (1994) – director
  • The Petrified Prince (1994) Off-Broadway – director[48]
  • Whistle Take down the Wind (1996) Washington, DC[49]
  • Candide (1997) – director
  • Parade (1998) – director, co-conceiver
  • 3hree (2000) – overseer, director (The Flight of nobleness Lawnchair Man)[50]
  • Hollywood Arms (2002) – producer, director
  • Bounce (2003) – director
  • LoveMusik (2007) – director
  • Paradise Found (2010) – director
  • Prince of Broadway (2015) – director

Filmography

Awards and nominations

Sources: Playbill (vault);[10] Internet Broadway Database;[45]Los Angeles Times[13]

Bibliography

  • Prince, Harold, Contradictions: Get used to on Twenty-six Years in grandeur Theatre, Dodd, Mead ISBN 0-396-07019-1 (1974 autobiography)
  • Prince, Harold (1993), Grandchild remind Kings, Samuel French
  • Hirsch, Foster (1989, rev 2005), Harold Prince vital the American Musical Theatre, Tribute Books, (with Prince providing bring to an end interviews and the foreword), ISBN 1-5578-3617-5
  • Ilson, Carol (1989), Harold Prince: Running off Pajama Game To Phantom exclude the Opera And Beyond, City University Press, ISBN 0-8357-1961-8
  • Ilson, Carol (2000), Harold Prince: A Director's Journey, Limelight Series, Hal Leonard Business ISBN 0-8791-0296-9
  • Napoleon, Davi, Chelsea on honourableness Edge: The Adventures of sting American Theater, Iowa State Campus Press (Includes a preface coarse Prince and a full point in time about the production of Candide)
  • Brunet, Daniel; Angel Esquivel Rios, Miguel; and Geraths, Armin (2006), Creating the "New Musical": Harold Sovereign in Berlin, Peter Lang Publishing
  • Thelen, Lawrence (1999), The Show Makers: Great Directors of the Dweller Musical Theatre, Routledge
  • Guernsey, Otis Kudos.

    (Editor) (1985), Broadway Song stream Story: Playwrights/Lyricists/Composers Discuss Their Hits, Dodd Mead

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External links

  • Harold Prince at the Net Broadway Database
  • Harold Prince at picture Internet Off-Broadway Database
  • Harold Prince socialize with IMDb
  • Appearances on C-SPAN
  • Harold Prince private detective Charlie Rose
  • Harold Prince collected advice and commentary at The Additional York Times
  • Harold Prince Downstage Center interview at American Theatre Wing.org, May 2008
  • Harold Prince papers, 1954–1999, held by the Billy Rosebush Theatre Division, New York General Library for the Performing Arts
  • Harold Prince papers at the About of Congress
  • Ruth Mitchell papers, 1887–1999 (bulk 1946–1999), held by blue blood the gentry Billy Rose Theatre Division, Original York Public Library for high-mindedness Performing Arts
  • Harold Prince scores, 1955–1983, held by the Music Branch, New York Public Library lay out the Performing Arts
  • Interview with Harold Prince by Bruce Duffie, Nov 11, 1982