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Hal Prince, Tony's prodigious and royal winner on Broadway, producer or director (or both) of many of the theater's most enduring musicals, including "Damn Yankees", "West Side Story", "Fiddler on the Roof" , Cabaret, "Sweeney Todd" and "The Ghost of the Opera", the oldest series in Broadway history, died Wednesday in Reykjavik, Iceland. He was 91 years old.
Death was confirmed by a spokesman.
Mr. Prince began working in Broadway-era theater, when Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein were the kings of songwriting, the musical was a form of American art robust (not to mention an affordable entertainment option) and the theatrical songs were staples. waves.
His contributions have been prolific and persistent during difficult times – when rock 'n roll threatened to make show music irrelevant, when Times Square's decline has discouraged Broadway attendance, when The arrival of popular British musicals such as "Phantom" has spread their American and American counterparts. when companies like Disney entered the Broadway contest and miniaturized the impact of the independent producer.
The Tony Award was recognized by the Tony Award for outstanding achievements, which he received in 2006, in the composition of the musical Broadway during the second half of the twentieth century.
It was his 21st Tony, a number far exceeding that of anyone in several categories. The count began with the best 1955 musical comedy, "The Pajama Game," which Prince co-produced with Frederick Brisson and Robert E. Griffith. The total reached 20 in 1995 for leading an extravagant revival of "Show Boat," Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein 2nd's 1927 flagship musical from Edna Ferber's novel about life aboard a steamboat. Mississippi.
Often regarded as the foundation of modern musical comedy for the development of his character and the fusion of score and history, "Show Boat" was a proper adage – although not quite his final show – for a man which has helped to expand the narrative possibilities in the form of musical theater.
Mr. Prince was known, especially in the early decades of his theatrical life, as a devilish workaholic; At one point in 1960, three shows he produced appeared on Broadway at the same time.
And throughout his career, he has been recognized for his collaborations with several creators, including choreographers Bob Fosse, Jerome Robbins, Michael Bennett and Susan Stroman, designers Eugene Lee, Patricia Zipprodt and Florence Klotz and composers. Leonard Bernstein, John Kander, Stephen Sondheim, who was his most frequent confederate, and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Lloyd Webber was working with Evita on the opportunistic Argentine populist Eva Peron and on The Phantom of the Opera, which he ran in London and Broadway, his most lucrative collaborator.
A complete version of this obituary will be available soon.
