I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think that way any more. Of… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I'm a pragmatic man. I'll veer on the dangerous side, because I love dangerous subjects, but I won't shoot a show in the foot. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it... It's… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
