Harold Prince: A Director's Journey

by Carol Ilson

Overview

(Limelight). "The story of Prince's career is inseparable from the history of the American musical theatre for the past 40 years...In-depth accounts of musicals Fiddler on the Roof , West Side Story , Cabaret , Company , and Sweeney Todd will be of interest to any musical theatre buff." American Theatre

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780879102968
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/01/2004
Series:	Limelight
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	540
Sales rank:	277,639
Product dimensions:	6.15(w) x 8.94(h) x 1.33(d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	ix
	Preface	xi
	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Prologue	1
1	Broadway Novice Meets Broadway Legend: Harold Prince & George Abbott	5
2	Broadway's New Producing Team: Griffith & Prince	13
3	Broadway Innovation: West Side Story	33
4	The Fifties End	45
5	The Sixties Begin	55
6	A Chance to Direct	67
7	Broadway History: Fiddler on the Roof	95
8	A Musical Holmes & A Black Comedy	109
9	A Parting with One Superman--A Meeting with Another	121
10	A Major Hit & A Near Miss	135
11	Prince & Sondheim and the "Modern Musical"	159
12	A Musical in 3/4 Time & An Environmental Restaging	199
13	A Daring Venture: Pacific Overtures	227
14	An Ebb of the Tide	243
15	Back on Board: On the Twentieth Century	249
16	The Conquering Musical: Evita	261
17	Broadway Meets Grand Guignol: Sweeney Todd	281
18	A String of Valiant Attempts	299
19	A Re-Vision: Cabaret	339
20	His "Greatest Personal Success"--So Far: The Phantom of the Opera	343
21	A Trip to Purchase: Kiss of the Spider Woman	361
22	Kiss of the Spider Woman Reborn	375
23	Recreating an American Masterpiece: Show Boat	387
24	Parade	405
	Epilogue	413
	Appendix	427
	Notes	439
	Bibliography	481
	Index	503

Editorial Reviews

Now in an updated and expanded second edition, Carol Ilson's Harold Prince: A Director's Journey is the definitive biographical work on one of the most successful and influential men of Broadway and American musical theatre during the decade of the 1990s. Candid, informative, insightful, occasionally inspiring, Harold Prince is very highly recommended reading for students of American theatre in general, and Harold Prince in particular.