The audience every night is the best response because people are on their feet, regardless of how they start, they are just smiling and they can't believe how much fun they are having. Harold Prince More Quotes by Harold Prince More Quotes From Harold Prince 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. Harold Prince absurd truth-is reason There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling. Harold Prince composer creative wonderful There's no lack of talent out there. I suspect there is a lack of creative guidance, and that would not be solely the responsibility of a director but also a producer. Harold Prince out talent creative responsibility 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 know me scenery doors Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art. Harold Prince something me money art Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators. Harold Prince respect eye courage people I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. After all, that's what theatre is, it's an empty space, and it's both limited and unlimited because the space is the space, but what you can do with people's imaginations is really endless. Harold Prince you time love people I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can provide in energy and bombast - I enjoy it when it's large, and by that I don't mean in size, I mean in emotions. Shakespeare did that. Harold Prince loved emotions enjoy energy Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it. Harold Prince think you hope mistake I'm on a single track here - I work to direct what I want to see onstage. I basically have been feeding my own needs - to be working on a specific project at a specific time, and fortunately more often it works than fails. Harold Prince see my-own work time 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 my-life you time life Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals. Harold Prince lyrics rock room you Producing should be a creative responsibility. Harold Prince creative responsibility should
