Harold Prince Quotes - Page 2

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• Nothing is staged exactly as it was, because I can't remember - and I consider that an advantage.

  Harold Prince

  Remember, Advantage, Because I Can

  Source: deadline.com

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• 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 from the '40s on.

  Harold Prince

  Musical, Age, Golden

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• I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.

  Harold Prince

  Boat, Shows

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• I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

  Harold Prince

  Artist, Able, Great Artist

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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

  Book, Thinking, People

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• I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.

  Harold Prince

  Theatre, Good Times, Shows

  "A Conversation With Groundbreaker Harold Prince On the Occasion of a New Phantom Milestone". Interview with Harry Haun, www.playbill.com. January 25, 2013.

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• I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.

  Harold Prince

  Night, Ties, People

  "A Conversation With Groundbreaker Harold Prince On the Occasion of a New Phantom Milestone". Interview with Harry Haun, www.playbill.com. January 25, 2013.

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• There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

  Harold Prince

  Creative, Wonderful, Composer

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• I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

  Harold Prince

  Thinking, Musical, Contemporary

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• It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.

  Harold Prince

  Nice, Night, Worry

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• What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

  Harold Prince

  Missing, Musical, New Work

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• 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 the same.

  Harold Prince

  Truth Is, Reason, Absurd

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• The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.

  Harold Prince

  Depressing, Believe, Ideas

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• 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

  Thinking, Trends, Want

  "Hal Prince, ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ Director, Opens Up On The Show’s 25th Anniversary". Interview with Amy Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2011.

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• 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 the veins, but I love the place.

  Harold Prince

  Crazy, Blood, Years

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• I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college.

  Harold Prince

  College, Nine, Saws

  Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 24, 2010.

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• I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

  Harold Prince

  Emotional, Nine, Saws

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