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Sense of Occasion
Hardback
Main Details
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Sense of Occasion
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Harold Prince
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Series | Applause Books |
Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:358 | Dimensions(mm): Height 236,Width 161 |
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Category/Genre | Memoirs |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781495013027
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Classifications | Dewey:B |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Hal Leonard Corporation
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Imprint |
Hal Leonard Corporation
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Publication Date |
1 August 2017 |
Publication Country |
United States
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Description
In this fast-moving, candid, conversational, and entertaining memoir, Harold Prince, the most honored director in the history of the American theater (22 Tony Awards and counting), looks back over his 70-year (and counting!) career. Featuring original material from Contradictions: Notes on Twenty-Six Years in the Theatre, Prince provides a fresh, new perspective on his writing from the vantage point of today. Sense of Occasion gives an insider s recollection of the making of such landmark musicals as West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, Evita, and Phantom of the Opera, with Prince s perceptive comments about his mentor George Abbott and his many celebrated collaborators, including Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim, John Kander, Boris Aronson, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Zero Mostel, Carol Burnett, and Joel Grey. As well as detailing his titanic successes that changed the form and content of the American musical theatre, Prince even-handedly reflects on the shows that didn t work, most memorably and painfully Merrily We Roll Along. Throughout, he offers insights into the way business is conducted on Broadway, drawing sharp contrasts between past and present. This thoughtful, complete account of one of the most legendary and long-lived careers in theatre history, written by the man who lived it, is an essential work of personal and professional recollection.
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