Harold Prince Quotes
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There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.
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We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
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I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
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Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.
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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.
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I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can provide in energy and bombast - I enjoy it when it's large, and by that I don't mean in size, I mean in emotions. Shakespeare did that.
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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
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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.
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I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.
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What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.
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I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.
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There's no lack of talent out there. I suspect there is a lack of creative guidance, and that would not be solely the responsibility of a director but also a producer.
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All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you up and makes you feel like you're the inheritor of all this information and of all its passion.
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There have always been revivals. Some have always been successful. And many of them have failed.
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The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.
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I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.
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The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of the good things is that no one can ever take my career away from me. No one can ever say, 'You can't be in the theater any more.'
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I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough to commission a musical and to live on for a year. You'd be likely to get at least one project with a future.
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I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college.
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I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think that way any more. Of course, Broadway will always be important. But it's not the focus of everything that you do. You know, I'm very happy I was born when I was, so I got there in time. When it was time to get there.
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I'm on a single track here - I work to direct what I want to see onstage. I basically have been feeding my own needs - to be working on a specific project at a specific time, and fortunately more often it works than fails.
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You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.