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May 24, 2024 · His book, Contradictions: Notes on Twenty-six Years in the Theatre, serves as a memoir and a masterclass in producing and directing. It offers an unparalleled glimpse into the mind of a genius who ...
May 13, 2024 · When Stephen Sondheim first approached Harold Prince about directing his new musical, Sweeney Todd, Prince was reluctant. What, he wondered, is the appeal of a story about a vengeful barber and his lover, who uses the victims as filling for her meat pies?
May 23, 2024 · When Sondheim first brought the idea for the show to director Harold Prince, his frequent collaborator, Prince was uninterested, feeling it was a simple melodrama that was not very experimental structurally.
May 9, 2024 · Instead, I want to focus on how profoundly the revolutionary 1966 show (music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, book by Joe Masteroff, directed by Harold Prince) has, over the last five decades, been deconstructed, rebuilt and editorialized in multiple ways—almost always to its detriment.
6 days ago · Please note that we do not decide which show we will be producing until after we have hired a director. Currently, we are anticipating that the production will go up in late October at the Harold Prince Theatre in the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
May 20, 2024 · The musical dates back to early 2018 when the legendary Harold Prince announced he was working on a musical adaptation of the film. But after Prince died the following year, it was Sammi Cannold, a former guest of this podcast, who took over as the show’s director.
May 16, 2024 · CLAYTON PHILLIPS-Director. Mr. Phillips assisted twenty-one time Tony Award winner, Harold Prince on both Broadway productions of “Kiss of the Spider Woman”, and “Parade’.
