Prince, Harold

Prince, Harold

▪ American theatrical producer and director
in full  Harold Smith Prince , byname  Hal Prince 
born Jan. 30, 1928, New York, N.Y., U.S.

      American theatrical producer and director who from the 1960s was recognized as one of the most creative and innovative figures on Broadway.

      The son of a New York stockbroker, Prince majored in English at the University of Pennsylvania (B.A., 1948) and began his theatrical career as an apprentice and stage manager for the noted producer and director George Abbott (Abbott, George). In 1953 he began producing musicals (initially in partnership with Robert E. Griffith) and was highly successful in his first outing, The Pajama Game (1954). In 1963, with She Loves Me, he also began directing musical productions. Among musicals for which he was producer, coproducer, or director are Damn Yankees (1955), West Side Story (1957), Fiorello! (1959), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Fiddler on the Roof (1964), Cabaret (1966), Zorba (1968), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Pacific Overtures (1976), Sweeney Todd (1979), Evita (1980), The Phantom of the Opera (1988), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993), Parade (1998), and LoveMusik (2007).

      Prince received directorial Antoinette Perry (Tony) awards for Cabaret, Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, Evita, and The Phantom of the Opera and for the Broadway revival of Show Boat in 1994. In 2006 he also won a Tony Award for lifetime achievement. His memoir, Contradictions: Notes on Twenty-Six Years in the Theatre, was published in 1974.

Additional Reading
Foster Hirsch, Harold Prince and the American Musical Theatre, rev. and expanded ed. (2005).

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