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Harold Prince

Shows · Harold Prince

Director 1928–2019

The most decorated director in Broadway history with 21 Tony Awards.

Also credited on23 works

Cabaret
Company
Follies
A Little Night Music
Pacific Overtures
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Evita
The Phantom of the Opera
Merrily We Roll Along
She Loves Me
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Parade
Candide
Baker Street
A Family Affair
On the Twentieth Century
Grind
Roza
Kiss Of The Spider Woman-the Musical
“It’s a Bird... It’s a Plane... It’s Superman”
A Doll's Life
Whistle Down the Wind
On the Twentieth Century

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In the literature8 passages

  • • Show Boat : The acclaimed (and controversial) Broadway revival staged by Harold Prince (1994)ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
  • After two hits (as a lyricist), one hit as a composer-lyricist, a flop, a disappointing run, and five fallow years Sondheim, in tandem with Harold Prince, erupted on Broadway between 1970 and 1973 with a creative explosion: Company (1970), Follies (1971), and A Little Night Music (1973). From this trilogy Company has been most frequently…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
  • Hirsch, Foster. Harold Prince and the American Musical Theatre . rev. and expanded ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
  • Ilson, Carol. Harold Prince: From “Pajama Game” to “Phantom of the Opera .” Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, 1989.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
  • ———. “Author and Director: Musicals” (with Harold Prince). In Broadway Song & Story: Playwrights / Lyricists/ Composers Discuss Their Hits , ed. Otis Guernsey Jr., 355–70. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1985.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
  • FILM (Warner Bros. 1982) : Cast: Angela Lansbury, George Hearn. Produced by Bonnie Burns. Directed for the stage by Harold Prince; directed for television by Terry Hughes. [139 minutes]ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt

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