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About the Author
HAROLD PRINCE (New York City) directed the original productions of She Loves Me, It s a Bird ... Superman, Cabaret, Zorba, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, On the Twentieth Century, Sweeney Todd, Evita, Merrily We Roll Along, The Phantom of the Opera, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Parade, and LoveMusik. He has also directed acclaimed revivals of Candide and Show Boat. Before becoming a director, Mr. Prince produced the original productions of The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, New Girl in Town, West Side Story, Fiorello!, Tenderloin, Flora the Red Menace, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Fiddler on the Roof. Among the plays he has directed are Hollywood Arms, The Visit, The Great God Brown, End of the World, Play Memory, and his own play, Grandchild of Kings. His opera productions have been seen at Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Dallas Opera, Vienna Staatsoper, and the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. His most recent version of Candide was seen at New York City Opera in January 2017. In 2006, he prepared a new version of Phantom that ran in Las Vegas at the Venetian Hotel for six years. Prince of Broadway, a musical compendium of Mr. Prince s entire career, will open on Broadway in August 2017. Mr. Prince is a trustee for the New York Public Library and previously served on the National Council on the Arts for the NEA. Mr. Prince is an officier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, given to him by the French government in 2008. He is the recipient of 21 Tony Awards, a Kennedy Center Honor, the Eugene O Neill Theatre Center s Monte Cristo Award, and a National Medal of the Arts from President Clinton for a career in which he changed the nature of the American musical.
Book Information
ISBN 9781495013027
Author Harold Prince
Format Hardback
Page Count 358
Imprint Applause Theatre Book Publishers
Publisher Hal Leonard Corporation
Weight(grams) 762g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 161mm * 28mm