Research Catalog

Title

Harold Prince and the American musical theatre / Foster Hirsch.

Author

Hirsch, Foster.

Publication

New York : Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, [2005], ©2005.

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Description

xv, 269 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Here is the complete look at the outstanding career of Harold Prince, the most honored and influential producer/director in the history of postwar American musical theatre. Prince was a producer of The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, Fiddler on the Roof, and West Side Story; producer and director of Cabaret; and was involved in a series of landmark collaborations with composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim including Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, and Sweeney Todd. He also directed Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita and The Phantom of the Opera. His work has helped to significantly alter the musical with convention-challenging subject matter, music, staging and design. It's no wonder he's won more Tony Awards than anyone else: twenty and counting." "Foster Hirsch has updated the original edition of this book adding new interviews with Prince. He analyzes Prince's more recent work, including Kiss of the Spider Woman, Parade, and the award-winning revival of Show Boat. He provides a detailed account of the creation and fortunes of Bounce, the 2003 musical that reunited Prince and Sondheim for the first time in twenty years. Illustrated with numerous rare photos, it is a must for any theatre fan."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Prince, Harold, 1928- > Criticism and interpretation

Note

• Previous ed.: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-262) and index.

ISBN

1557836175 (pbk.)

LCCN

• 2005003597
• 073999568745
• 9781557836175

OCLC

• ocm57652420
• SCSB-5187269

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Columbia University Libraries