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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?
4 days ago · 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.
- Stephen Sondheim
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- Sweeney Todd, by Christopher Bond
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1 day ago · West Side Story is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents.. Inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial, blue-collar neighborhood.
3 days ago · Directed by Harold Prince and choreographed by Ron Field, the cast featured Jill Haworth as Sally, Bert Convy as Cliff, Lotte Lenya as Fräulein Schneider, Jack Gilford as Herr Schultz, Joel Grey as the Emcee, Edward Winter as Ernst, and Peg Murray as Fräulein Kost.
May 2, 2024 · She also codirected and choreographed Prince of Broadway (2017), a revue celebrating the career of theatrical producer and director Harold Prince. Stroman’s later work included The Beast in the Jungle (2018).
Apr 24, 2024 · A Chorus Line began with a series of interviews with numerous Broadway dancers (“gypsies”), but the project was ultimately taken over by Michael Bennett, a director-choreographer and former performer whose previous credits included choreography and co-direction (with Harold Prince) of Stephen Sondheim’s Company and Follies.
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.
