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Additional authors

1. Prince, Harold, 1928-2019
2. Kantor, Michael, 1961-
3. Hunt, Mead
4. Ghost Light Films
5. Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor
6. Thirteen/WNET, donor

Description

1. 2 videocassettes (VHS) (70 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. Raw interview footage used for the documentary Broadway, the American musical. American theatrical producer and director Harold Prince discusses his career. Topics include producer Cameron Mackintosh; financing and budgets for current musicals; the musicals of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart; the kinds of works currently being produced on Broadway and their audiences; the role of mistakes in making a career in the theater; his production of Cabaret; audience walkouts at new theatrical productions; his interests as a producer, and the influence his work has; his interest in non-musical theatrical productions; the current trend in the production of works designed to appeal to audiences; his work with composer Stephen Sondheim, including the show Sweeney Todd; the groundbreaking aspects of the musical Show boat; how he as a producer adapted to changes in the theater; his direction of the musical The phantom of the opera; the musical West side story, including the choreography of Jerome Robbins; his love of the theater, which was nurtured through being taken to the theater as a child; producer David Merrick; the musical as an American art form; the subject of racial inequality as expressed in the lyrcs of Oscar Hammerstein.

Alternative title

1. #174 Harold Prince I. V., The Broadway film project
2. #175 Harold Prince I. V., The Broadway film project
3. Broadway, the American musical

Subject

1. Prince, Harold, 1928-2019 -- Interviews
2. Prince, Harold, 1928-2019 -- Childhood and youth
3. Prince, Harold, 1928-2019 -- Friends and associates
4. Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979
5. Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945. Show boat
6. Sondheim, Stephen. Sweeney Todd
7. Kander, John. Cabaret
8. Mackintosh, Cameron
9. Robbins, Jerome
10. Lloyd Webber, Andrew, 1948- Phantom of the Opera
11. Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990. West Side story
12. Merrick, David, 1911-2000
13. Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960
14. Theatrical producers and directors -- Interviews
15. Theater -- New York (State) -- New York
16. Musical theater -- New York (State) -- New York
17. Musical theater -- Production and direction
18. Musical theater -- Finance
19. Theater and society
20. Theater audiences
21. Broadway (New York, N.Y.)

Genre/Form

1. Documentaries and factual works.
2. Musicals.
3. Unedited footage.

Call number

1. NCOX 2167

Language

1. English

Note

1. The first interview with Harold Prince conducted for this documentary is available on NCOX 2104.
2. This interview is one of a group of interviews with 90 individuals used in making the documentary Broadway, the American musical. The completed production is available on NCOX 2058.
3. Credits for completed production from pbs.org: A film by Michael Kantor ; produced by Jeff Dupre, Michael Kantor and Sally Rosenthal ; written by Marc Fields, Michael Kantor, Laurence Maslon, and JoAnne Young ; directed by Michael Kantor.
4. Time code on frame.
5. Contains various takes; at occasional intervals, the audio continues without image.

Credits (note)

1. Cameraman: Mead Hunt.

Performer (note)

1. Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: Harold Prince.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped in New York, N.Y. , probably at Harold Prince's office, on Sept. 9, 2003.

Biography (note)

1. Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of a unique American art form, the Broadway musical. Each of its six episodes covers a different era in American theater history, and features the Broadway shows and songs which defined the period. The series draws on feature films, television broadcasts, archival news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first-person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in the development of the genre.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Title

1. [Interview with Harold Prince : raw footage.] [2003-09-09 ] [videorecording] / [directed by Michael Kantor] ; Ghost Light Films.

Imprint

1. New York, 2003.

Credits

1. Cameraman: Mead Hunt.

Performer

1. Interviewer: Michael Kantor. Interviewee: Harold Prince.

Event

1. Videotaped in New York, N.Y. , probably at Harold Prince's office, on Sept. 9, 2003.

Biography

1. Broadway, the American musical, which aired on PBS in October 2004, is a documentary chronicling the entire history of a unique American art form, the Broadway musical. Each of its six episodes covers a different era in American theater history, and features the Broadway shows and songs which defined the period. The series draws on feature films, television broadcasts, archival news footage, original cast recordings, still photos, diaries, journals, first-person accounts, and on-camera interviews with many of the principals involved in the development of the genre.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre on Film and Tape Archive Special Collections material

Added author

1. Prince, Harold, 1928-2019, interviewee.
2. Kantor, Michael, 1961- interviewer.
3. Kantor, Michael, 1961- director.
4. Hunt, Mead, cameraman.
5. Ghost Light Films.
6. Broadway Film Project, Inc, donor.
7. Thirteen/WNET, donor.

Research call number

1. NCOX 2167