Sense of Occasion (eBook)

Harold Prince (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
304 Seiten
Applause (Verlag)
978-1-5400-0484-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In this fast-moving, candid, conversational, and entertaining memoir, Harold Prince, the most honored director in the history of the American theater (22 Tony Awards and counting), looks back over his 70-year (and counting!) career. Featuring original material from Contradictions: Notes on Twenty-Six Years in the Theatre, Prince provides a fresh, new perspective on his writing from the vantage point of today. Sense of Occasion gives an insider's recollection of the making of such landmark musicals as West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, Evita, and Phantom of the Opera, with Prince's perceptive comments about his mentor George Abbott and his many celebrated collaborators, including Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim, John Kander, Boris Aronson, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Zero Mostel, Carol Burnett, and Joel Grey. As well as detailing his titanic successes that changed the form and content of the American musical theater, Prince even-handedly reflects on the shows that didn't work, most memorably and painfully Merrily We Roll Along. Throughout, he offers insights into the way business is conducted on Broadway, drawing sharp contrasts between past and present. This thoughtful, complete account of one of the most legendary and long-lived careers in theater history, written by the man who lived it, is an essential work of personal and professional recollection.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.8.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Applause Books
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Singen / Musizieren
• Schlagworte: all that jazz • Broadway Musicals • Cabaret • Candide • Damn Yankees • Evita! • Fidler on the Roof • Fiorello! • Folllies • George Abbott • National Medal of Arts • New Girl in Town • Phantom of the Opera • Richard Bissell's Say Darling • Show Boat • theater memoir • The Pajama Game • West Side Story
• ISBN-10: 1-5400-0484-8 / 1540004848
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5400-0484-0 / 9781540004840