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Celebrated Broadway director and producer of shows including Cabaret, Company and The Phantom of the Opera
No single figure in American popular theatre was associated with so many enduring hits as the Broadway director and producer Harold “Hal” Prince. Prince, who has died aged 91, was assistant stage manager for Irving Berlin’s Call Me Madam in 1951, and went on to produce West Side Story (1960), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) and Fiddler on the Roof (1964). He graduated to directing, which he considered his true calling, with Cabaret (1966), Company (1970), A Little Night Music (1973), Evita (1979) and Phantom of the Opera (1986).
The songwriters Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jason Robert Brown, and the teams Bock and Harnick and Kander and Ebb, were said to have done their best work with Prince. Choreographers in important Prince productions included Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins and Michael Bennett. As producer or director, Prince won 21 Tony awards, including, in 2006, a special award for lifetime achievement. Continue reading...