Quotes by Harold Prince - Page 2

You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Betting
Next
Next Generation
Recycling
Around
Bet
Efforts
Generation
Guys
Step
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I really like reaching out and seeing the audience - they're potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about going to the theater again, if they've ceased or gone less.
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Reaching
Audiences
Occasion
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'Evita' was four pieces of slick paper and a record album. It's the most scary, to sit down and dictate a musical scene by scene. It was a musical unlike anything I'd ever seen before myself.
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Paper
Scary
Slick
Dictate
Unlike
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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 you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Agree
Audience
Mistake
Taken
Willing
Somewhere
Beforehand
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Impart
Closely
Todd
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All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you up and makes you feel like you're the inheritor of all this information and of all its passion.
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Died
Fills
Movements
Theaters
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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 you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Moving
Musical Theater
Responsibility
Successful
Quick
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I'm on a single track here - I work to direct what I want to see onstage. I basically have been feeding my own needs - to be working on a specific project at a specific time, and fortunately more often it works than fails.
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Direct
Feeding
Track
Time Work See
Fails
Work Time See
Fortunately
Onstage
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I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough to commission a musical and to live on for a year. You'd be likely to get at least one project with a future.
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Producers
Terrific
At Least One
Big Money
Commission
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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 think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Book
People
Productions
Thinking
People New See
Chances
New Material
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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 to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Heart
Organized
Self
Sick
Temptation
Amateur
Appear
Deadlines
Sign
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When I was a producer, the fun of the show was waking up with a hit and enjoying the period after the show opens. The fun of a director stops the day it opens. No matter if it's a success or a failure, it's not a whole lot of fun anymore.
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Directors
Fun
Wake Up
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The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad things. One of the good things is that no one can ever take my career away from me. No one can ever say, 'You can't be in the theater any more.'
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Bad Things
Good And Bad
Time Truth Good
Truth Time Good
Lasted
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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 will be a problem I didn’t anticipate. It’s really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you’ve never got it all nailed.
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Problem
Rehearsal
Thinking
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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 will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Anticipate
Rehearsal
Good Will Never
Nailed
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Mary
Stars
Weeks
Go Away
Martin
Nurtured
Recognized
The Best Policy
Tour
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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 will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Box Office
Ideas
Office
Succeed
Successful
Valuable
Future Work Your
Box
Creatively
Experiment
Work Future Will
Some Things
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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 provide in energy and bombast - I enjoy it when it's large, and by that I don't mean in size, I mean in emotions. Shakespeare did that.
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Melodrama
Providing
Size
Truthful
Victorian
Shakespeare
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I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. After all, that's what theatre is, it's an empty space, and it's both limited and unlimited because the space is the space, but what you can do with people's imaginations is really endless.
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Boxes
Empty
Empty Space
Minimalist
Theatre
Unlimited
Visuals
Love Time Space
Love Space Time
Imaginations
Limited
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I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Analyzing
Start People Doing
Fatal
Musicals
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I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think that way any more. Of course, Broadway will always be important. But it's not the focus of everything that you do. You know, I'm very happy I was born when I was, so I got there in time. When it was time to get there.
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Adulthood
Broadway
Do You Know
Life Time Always
Aiming
Life Time Focus
Certain Degree
Degree
Entered
Suppose
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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. It's nice to know that a lot of wonderful things have happened to your life and that so much of it has been successful. That's great, but the work is really what makes it fun - and that has to be the future.'
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Prize
Wonderful Things
Life Work Future
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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 were - the entrances, the exits; the tables, the props - and then I would hire the designer. I took charge of the visuals - scenery and costumes and so on. And, the shows looked wonderful.
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Costumes
Designer
Doors
Props
Scenery
Tables
Visuals
Charge
Directing
Entrance
George
Hire
Producing
The Doors
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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 with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
Harold Prince / Theatrical Producer
Collaboration
Buck
Huge Amount
Stops
Prevail
Similar
Ultimately
Wanting
Whom
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