Prince of Broadway
Opened: 2014Closing: December 31, 2014
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Please note this production has been postponed indefinitely.
Celebrating the most influential and successful career in the American theater of the past 60 years, PRINCE OF BROADWAY will look at the circumstances and fortune, both good and bad, that led to Hal Prince creating some of the most enduring and beloved theater of all time, from 1954's The Pajama Game to The Phantom of the Opera, the longest-running show in Broadway history.
PRINCE OF BROADWAY will feature words and music from the shows that have earned Hal Prince a record 21 Tony Awards.
PRINCE OF BROADWAY will be directed by Mr. Prince with co-direction and choreography by Susan Stroman (The Producers, Contact, Crazy for You). David Thompson (The Scottsboro Boys, Chicago [adaptation]) is writing the book and Jason Robert Brown (The Last Five Years, Parade) is writing vocal and dance arrangements.
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Broadway Review: Harold Prince Revue ‘Prince of Broadway’
8 / 10
Although it must have been hard to choose favorites for this show (nothing from 'LoveMusik'?), the scope of Prince's career is smartly represented by the selections and their respectful treatment. There are none of those hateful medleys that make you feel deprived; many shows are represented by two and even three fully staged songs. 'Cabaret' has four selections that, taken together, musically summarize the show. You may wish 'Prince of Broadway' were twice as long, but you won't go away hungry.
‘Prince of Broadway’ review
6 / 10
Certainly the more than 30 songs performed by a superb cast of nine include some of the most beloved, or accomplished, ever written for musicals. A short list of the shows directed or produced (or both) by Prince ranges from the bouncy 'Damn Yankees' to the storied collaborations with Stephen Sondheim - 'Company,' 'Follies,' 'A Little Night Music' and 'Sweeney Todd' among them - as well as two Andrew Lloyd Webber megahits, 'Evita' and 'The Phantom of the Opera.' Plus 'Cabaret' and 'Fiddler on the Roof.' But Prince's protean ability to infuse an electric vitality into shows of such disparate styles and tones almost confounds the revue format - or rather is confounded by it. Prince's work was often celebrated for its seamlessness, the fluid interplay between dialogue, song and dance, between story and character and theme. But even the most skilled seam-sealer cannot make a revue of such diverse material into a conceptually cohesive and theatrically compelling evening.
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| 2017 | Broadway |
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