Harold Prince, a Broadway director and producer who pushed the boundaries of musical theater and won a record 21 Tony Awards, has died at age 91.
Prince worked with some of the best-known composers and lyricists in musical theater, including Leonard Bernstein, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, John Kander and Fred Ebb, Andrew Lloyd Webber and, most notably, Stephen Sondheim.
A musical about Prince called"Prince of Broadway" opened in Japan in 2015 featuring songs from many of the shows that made him famous. It landed on Broadway in 2017. Prince was mentored by two of the theater's most experienced professionals — director George Abbott and producer Robert E. Griffith. After a stint in the Army during the Korean War , he returned to Broadway, serving as stage manager on Abbott's 1953 production of"Wonderful Town," starring Rosalind Russell.
Prince had gotten his first opportunity to direct on Broadway in 1962. The musical was"A Family Affair," a little-remembered show about the travails of a Jewish wedding. Its Broadway run was short — only 65 performances — but"A Family Affair" gave Prince a chance to work with composer John Kander. He was a champion of imagination in the theater and tried never to rely on technology to give his shows pop, preferring canvas to LEDs.
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