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Prince of Broadway, a musical celebration that highlights the extraordinary six-decade career of director and producer Harold Prince, is now in performances at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. This limited engagement, which began previews on August 3 and opened August 24, is produced by Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer), by special arrangement with Gorgeous Entertainment.
The cast of Prince of Broadway features Tony Award winner
Chuck Cooper (Caroline, or Change; Choir Boy at MTC), Drama Desk Award winner
Janet Dacal (In The Heights, Good Vibrations),
Bryonha Marie Parham (After Midnight, Porgy & Bess), Tony Award nominee
Emily Skinner (Side Show, The Full Monty), two-time Tony Award nominee
Brandon Uranowitz (Falsettos, An American in Paris),
Kaley Ann Voorhees (The Phantom of the Opera, Candide), two-time Olivier Award nominee
Michael Xavier (Sunset Boulevard, Into The Woods), Tony Award nominee
Tony Yazbeck (On the Town, Gypsy), and Tony Award winner
Karen Ziemba (Contact, Curtains).
Prince of Broadway includes songs from many of the shows that earned
Harold Prince a staggering 21 Tony Awards, as well as biographical material. The show features a book by two-time Tony nominee
David Thompson (The Scottsboro Boys); new songs, arrangements, orchestration and music supervision by three-time Tony winner
Jason Robert Brown (The Bridges of Madison County); co-direction and choreography by five-time Tony winner
Susan Stroman (The Producers); and direction by Prince himself.
Harold Prince is a legend in the American theatre - the acclaimed director and producer behind a long list of America's most iconic musicals and has brought together six decades of magical moments in a new musical event, Prince of Broadway.
This thrilling night of theatre includes fully staged hits from such celebrated musicals as West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Evita, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, The Phantom of the Opera and more, in an unforgettable tribute to an unmatched Broadway career.
In addition to directing and producing the original productions of these now classic musicals, Prince also directed the acclaimed revivals of Candide and Show Boat. Among the plays he has directed are Hollywood Arms, The Visit, The Great God Brown, End of the World, Play Memory, and his own play, Grandchild of Kings. His opera productions have been seen at Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera,
Houston Grand Opera, Dallas Opera, Vienna Staatsoper, and the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. Prince is a trustee for
The New York Public Library and previously served on the National Council on the Arts for the NEA. He is the recipient of 21 Tony Awards, a Kennedy Center Honoree, the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's Monte Cristo Award, the Sean O'Casey Award, the National Medal of the Arts, and is an Oficier des Arts des Lettres from the French government.
The creative team for Prince of Broadway features Tony Award winner
Beowulf Boritt (scenic and projection design), six-time Tony Award winner
William Ivey Long (costume design), two-time Tony Award winner
Howell Binkley (lighting design),
Jon Weston (sound design),
Paul Huntley (hair and wig design),
Angelina Avallone (makeup design),
Fred Lassen (music director),
Tara Rubin Casting (casting), and Tony Award winner
Jeffrey Seller (creative consultant).
Additional funding for Prince of Broadway is generously provided by The
John Gore Organization,
James L. Nederlander, The
Shubert Organization, and
Kumiko Yoshii. The world premiere production of Prince of Broadway was produced by
Umeda Arts Theater Co., Ltd., Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc., and
Amuse Inc. in Japan on October 23, 2015.
