110 Quotes by 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.

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

The musical has always been in jeopardy – until – or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It’s the lack of creative producers that is troubling.

Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don’t think that’s a good trend for the theater at all.

We’ve got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

I wouldn’t want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.

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

I’m always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.