pherank Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 Lots of articles now about Hal Prince and his legacy: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/theater/hal-prince-dead.html Link to comment
dirac Posted August 4, 2019 Share Posted August 4, 2019 RIP. Remembrances: Quote One of the astounding things about Hal is that he never listened to music for pleasure, only for work. However, he had been brought up on Broadway musicals of the 1940s, as had I, and that gave him a rather conservative ear: The dissonance in the score of “West Side Story” opened it up a bit, but every time I’d play a new song for him, he would often ask me, “Will I like that?” I would usually assure him, at which point he would shrug in resignation, and the song would at least go into rehearsal, though sometimes not for very long. Hal’s openness to things he didn’t immediately respond to was one of the things that made him such an ideal collaborator. Link to comment
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