Sense of Occasion (Applause Books)

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(Applause Books). In this fast-moving, candid, conversational, and entertaining memoir, Harold Prince, the most honored director/producer in the history of the American theater looks back over his seventy-year (and counting!) career. In 1974, Prince released his first book, Contradictions: Notes on Twenty-Six Years in the Theatre . Even though Contradictions has since attained cult status among producers, directors, and actors alike, Prince, in hindsight, believes he wasn’t in a position to publish this kind of tome at that point in his career (in truth, doing so was once an act of “insane arrogance”). Even though he doesn’t regret that effort, he is at last prepared to conclude it, to “see where I used to be right in my assessments and where I used to be fallacious.” In Sense of Occasion , Prince returns to this seminal text, invigorating it with fresh insights cultivated through four decades of additional practice. 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, Zero Mostel, Carol Burnett, and Joel Grey. In addition to detailing his titanic successes that changed the form and content of the American musical theater, Prince evenhandedly reflects on the shows that didn’t work, most memorably and painfully Merrily We Roll Along . All the way through, he offers insights into the way business is conducted on Broadway, drawing sharp contrasts between past and present. This thoughtful, complete account of some of the legendary and long-lived careers in theater history, written by the man who lived it, is an essential work of personal and professional recollection.

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