Harold Prince Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don’t think that’s a good trend for the theater at all.

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.

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

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