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| Genre/Form: | Documentaries and factual works Musicals Unedited footage Interviews |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Harold Prince; Harold Prince; Harold Prince; Richard Rodgers; Jerome Kern; Stephen Sondheim; John Kander; Cameron Mackintosh; Jerome Robbins; Andrew Lloyd Webber; Leonard Bernstein; David Merrick; Oscar Hammerstein |
| Material Type: | Videorecording |
| Document Type: | Visual material |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Harold Prince; Michael Kantor; Mead Hunt |
| OCLC Number: | 86120933 |
| Notes: | The first interview with Harold Prince conducted for this documentary is available on NCOX 2104. Copy of transcript available. This interview is one of a group of interviews with 90 individuals used in making the documentary Broadway, the American musical. The completed production is available on NCOX 2058. Credits for completed production from pbs.org: A film by Michael Kantor ; produced by Jeff Dupre, Michael Kantor and Sally Rosenthal ; written by Marc Fields, Michael Kantor, Laurence Maslon, and JoAnne Young ; directed by Michael Kantor. Time code on frame. Contains various takes; at occasional intervals, the audio continues without image . |
| Credits: | Cameraman: Mead Hunt. |
| Performer(s): | Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: Harold Prince. |
| Production notes: | Videotaped in New York, N.Y. , probably at Harold Prince's office, on Sept. 9, 2003. |
| Description: | 2 videocassettes (VHS) (70 min.) : sd., col. SP ; 1/2 in. |
| Other Titles: | #174 Harold Prince I. V., The Broadway film project #175 Harold Prince I. V., The Broadway film project Broadway, the American musical |
Abstract:
Raw interview footage used for the documentary Broadway, the American musical. American theatrical producer and director Hal Prince discusses his career. Topics include producer Cameron Mackintosh; financing and budgets for current musicals; the musicals of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart; the kinds of works currently being produced on Broadway and their audiences; the role of making mistakes in making a career in the theater; his production of Cabaret; the relevance of audience walkouts on new theatrical productions; his interests as a producer, and the influence his work has; his interest in non-musical theatrical productions; the current trend in the production of works designed to appeal to audiences; his work with composer Stephen Sondheim, including the show Sweeney Todd; the groundbreaking aspects of the musical Show boat; how he as a producer adapted to changes in the theater; his direction of the musical The phantom of the opera; the musical West side story, including the choreography of Jerome Robbins; his love of the theater, which was nurtured through being taken to the theater as a child; producer David Merrick; the musical as an American art form; the subject of racial inequality as expressed in the lyrcs of Oscar Hammerstein.
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Related Subjects:(21)
- Prince, Harold, -- 1928- -- Interviews.
- Prince, Harold, -- 1928- -- Childhood and youth.
- Prince, Harold, -- 1928- -- Friends and associates.
- Rodgers, Richard, -- 1902-1979.
- Kern, Jerome, -- 1885-1945. -- Show boat.
- Sondheim, Stephen. -- Sweeney Todd.
- Kander, John. -- Cabaret.
- Mackintosh, Cameron.
- Robbins, Jerome.
- Lloyd Webber, Andrew, -- 1948- -- Phantom of the opera.
- Bernstein, Leonard, -- 1918-1990. -- West Side story.
- Merrick, David, -- 1911-2000.
- Hammerstein, Oscar, -- 1895-1960.
- Theatrical producers and directors -- Interviews.
- Theater -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Musical theater -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Musical theater -- Production and direction.
- Musical theater -- Finance.
- Theater and society.
- Theater audiences.
- Broadway (New York, N.Y.)
