Harold 'Hal' Prince, who won a record 21 Tony Awards as producer and d...
- Harold “Hal” Prince, who won a record 21 Tony Awards as producer and director of some of Broadway’s biggest hits of the second half of the 20th century including “The Phantom of the Opera,” “West Side Story,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Cabaret” and “Evita,” died on Wednesday at age 91.
He turned to directing in the 1960s with hits including “Cabaret,” set in decadent Berlin amid the rise of the Nazis, for which he won the first of eight Tonys as best director. “He has a more acute ear than most producers. He takes it seriously and is more daring, imaginative and endlessly creative. He likes to take chances,” Sondheim said.In March, “Sweeney Todd” - the macabre tale of a murderous barber set to Sondheim’s music - made its debut. In September, Prince brought “Evita” to New York from London, where it had opened the previous year, telling the story of Eva Peron, the magnetic wife of Argentine strongman Juan Peron, with Lloyd Webber’s music.
“Sometimes it’s fire that you don’t know is going to be there, sometimes it’s a voice, sometimes it’s a piano playing by itself, but there’s always something. And sometimes it’s a piece of scenery almost falling on a diva,” Prince said.Prince, who sported a neatly trimmed white beard, balding head and dark-rimmed glasses usually perched precariously high on his forehead, hung a bulletin board in his Rockefeller Center office in New York adorned with notes he wrote to himself.
“I really was interested in theater from the get-go and that’s very lucky ... I caught up with a few musicals but they always struck me as kind of silly - which is why, I suppose, so few of the musicals I’ve done have been appropriately silly,” Prince said in a 2007 interview with the Academy of Achievement.
In 1955, they opened their second show, “Damn Yankees,” a tale of a baseball fan who sells his soul to the devil to help his favorite team win. It also won a Tony as best musical.
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