Harold Prince
Harold Prince
Harold Smith "Hal" Princeis an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the past half-century. He has garnered twenty-one Tony Awards, more than any other individual, including eight for directing, eight for producing the year's Best Musical, two as Best Producer of a Musical, and three special awards...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth30 January 1928
CountryUnited States of America
ancestry blood drop love
I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.
boat shows
I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.
creative wonderful composer
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.
depressing believe ideas
The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.
thinking trends want
Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.
people lasts bigs
Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.
nice night worry
It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.
artist able great-artist
I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.
crazy blood years
I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.
musical way process
We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
missing musical new-work
What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.
doe care audience
Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.
book thinking people
I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.
musical age golden
I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.