Harold Prince
Harold Prince

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

Harold Prince
Harold Prince

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

Harold Prince
Harold Prince

When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just wanted to know where the doors were - the entrances, the exits; the tables, the props - and then I would hire the designer. I took charge of the visuals - scenery and costumes and so on. And, the shows looked wonderful.

Harold Prince
Harold Prince

Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.

Harold Prince
Harold Prince

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.

Harold Prince
Harold Prince

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

Harold Prince
Harold Prince

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

Harold Prince
Harold Prince

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

Harold Prince
Harold Prince

You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.

Harold Prince
Harold Prince

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

Harold Prince
Harold Prince

Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it... It's none of it simple.

Harold Prince
Harold Prince

I'm just really trying to say what I really mean, which is: 'Your eye's on the prize, your eye's on the future. It's nice to know that a lot of wonderful things have happened to your life and that so much of it has been successful. That's great, but the work is really what makes it fun - and that has to be the future.'

Harold Prince
Harold Prince

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

Harold Prince
Harold Prince

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

Harold Prince
Harold Prince

I really like reaching out and seeing the audience - they're potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about going to the theater again, if they've ceased or gone less.

Harold Prince
Harold Prince

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.

Harold Prince
Harold Prince

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.

Harold Prince
Harold Prince

I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think that way any more. Of course, Broadway will always be important. But it's not the focus of everything that you do. You know, I'm very happy I was born when I was, so I got there in time. When it was time to get there.

Harold Prince
Harold Prince

There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.

Harold Prince
Harold Prince

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