It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that stuff when you're young; your resilience… — Harold Prince Bad Copy Share Image
I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work… — Harold Prince Better Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me. — Harold Prince Boat Copy Share Image
There have always been revivals. Some have always been successful. And many of them have failed. — Harold Prince Always Copy Share Image
When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, 'The Pajama Game,' in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing… — Harold Prince Buck 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… — Harold Prince Back Copy Share Image
I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different. — Harold Prince Coats Copy Share Image
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling. — Harold Prince Composer 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 Away Copy Share Image
I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take… — Harold Prince Book 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 Agree 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… — Harold Prince Amount Copy Share Image
I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form… — Harold Prince Actor Copy Share Image
I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough… — Harold Prince Big Copy Share Image
When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just wanted to know… — Harold Prince Charge Copy Share Image
I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can… — Harold Prince Always Copy Share Image
The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably… — Harold Prince Actor 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… — Harold Prince Actor Copy Share Image
I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in… — Harold Prince Ancestry Copy Share Image
The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me,… — Harold Prince Believe Copy Share Image
It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do… — Harold Prince Investing Copy Share Image
Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing. — Harold Prince Astonished 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… — Harold Prince Born Copy Share Image
There's no lack of talent out there. I suspect there is a lack of creative guidance, and that would not be solely… — Harold Prince Also Copy Share Image
Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested… — Harold Prince Audience 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 Actor 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 Emotional Copy Share Image
I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was… — Harold Prince Age Copy Share Image
When I was a producer, the fun of the show was waking up with a hit and enjoying the period after the… — Harold Prince Directors Copy Share Image
I'm just really trying to say what I really mean, which is: 'Your eye's on the prize, your eye's on the future.… — Harold Prince Been Copy Share Image
'Evita' was four pieces of slick paper and a record album. It's the most scary, to sit down and dictate a musical… — Harold Prince Album Copy Share Image
The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office,… — Harold Prince Box office Copy Share Image
You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences.… — Harold Prince Argue Copy Share Image
I really like reaching out and seeing the audience - they're potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about… — Harold Prince About 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.… — Harold Prince Any Copy Share Image
