Harold Prince Quotes

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• The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.

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  Successful, Ideas, Office

  Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. October 24, 2010.

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• Despite the successes, you remember the failures - rather lovingly.

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  Remember, Despite

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• Audiences are quite happy to be astonished, and they don't care who does that astonishing.

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  Doe, Care, Audience

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• Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.

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  Heart, Self, Sick

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• Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

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  Self, Criticism, Valuable

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• I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.

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  Important, Looks, Feeding

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• It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

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  Class, Guy, Intelligence

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• The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

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  Art, Musical, Theatre

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• I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn’t anticipate. It’s really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you’ve never got it all nailed.

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  Thinking, Rehearsal, Problem

  "Hal Prince, ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ Director, Opens Up On The Show’s 25th Anniversary". Interview with Amy Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

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  Directors, Theater, Producers

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• I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.

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  Moving, Responsibility, Successful

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• I have a terrible memory because I'm not interested in the past. It's done, it's done.

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  Memories, Past, Done

  Source: deadline.com

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• I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

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  Glad

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• A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.

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  Running, Stars, Guarantees

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• The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.

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  Awards, Expression, Perfect

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• We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

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  Musical, Way, Process

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• When I was a producer, the fun of the show was waking up with a hit and enjoying the period after the show opens. The fun of a director stops the day it opens. No matter if it's a success or a failure, it's not a whole lot of fun anymore.

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  Fun, Directors, Wake Up

  Source: deadline.com

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• I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.

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  Truthful, Tradition, Theater

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• I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.

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  Past, Thinking, Stopping

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• I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it.

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  Chaos, Enjoy, Thrive

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• I'm a pragmatic man. I'll veer on the dangerous side, because I love dangerous subjects, but I won't shoot a show in the foot.

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  Men, Feet, Sides

  Source: deadline.com

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• Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.

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  People, Lasts, Bigs

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• You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.

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  Thinking

  "Hal Prince, ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ Director, Opens Up On The Show’s 25th Anniversary". Interview With Amy Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.

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  People, Priorities, Wish

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

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  Boat, Shows

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