Best Harold Prince Quotes
- 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… Absurd
- There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling. Composer
- We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater. Find
- What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on. Missing
- You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic. Been
- Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not… Amateur
- 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… Aware
- I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there… All
- I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater… Age
- 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… Book
- The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things… Any
- 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. Born
- Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out… Amount
- Producing should be a creative responsibility. Creative
- Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better… Agree
- There have always been revivals. Some have always been successful. And many of them have failed. Been
- When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just wanted to know where the doors… Abbott
- You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years. Couple
- There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often. Any