Harold Prince

Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.

Harold Prince

Me Art Money Forgive

I really like reaching out and seeing the audience - they're potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about going to the theater again, if they've ceased or gone less.

Harold Prince

I Can Potential Like Seeing

I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can provide in energy and bombast - I enjoy it when it's large, and by that I don't mean in size, I mean in emotions. Shakespeare did that.

Harold Prince

Enjoy Loved Energy Emotions

I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.

Harold Prince

Work You Responsibility Think

The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.

Harold Prince

Award Perfect Expression Out

It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.

Harold Prince

You Nice Your Stay

I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college.

Harold Prince

College Loved About Town

I'm just really trying to say what I really mean, which is: 'Your eye's on the prize, your eye's on the future. It's nice to know that a lot of wonderful things have happened to your life and that so much of it has been successful. That's great, but the work is really what makes it fun - and that has to be the future.'

Harold Prince

Life Work Future Great

You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.

Harold Prince

Work Style You Romantic

There's no lack of talent out there. I suspect there is a lack of creative guidance, and that would not be solely the responsibility of a director but also a producer.

Harold Prince

Talent Responsibility Creative Out

I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.

Harold Prince

People Think New See

I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.

Harold Prince

People Night Remember Theatre

When I was a 25-year-old kid, I raised $260,000 for my first show, 'The Pajama Game,' in such a homemade, pathetic, endearing way - a buck here, a buck there.

Harold Prince

Game Way Kid Here

I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

Harold Prince

You Think American Contemporary

Producing should be a creative responsibility.

Harold Prince

Responsibility Creative Should

You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

Harold Prince

You Run Years Show

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

Harold Prince

Creative Wonderful Out Lack

I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it.

Harold Prince

Work I Am Enjoy Chaos

One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.

Harold Prince

Back Never Will Go

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