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Hal Prince, shown here in 1995, won an incredible 21 Tony awards for musical theater. |
The musical world is mourning the loss of one of its greats with the passing of Broadway legend Hal Prince on Wednesday, July 31.
Prince is the father of the Plainfield Symphony's musical director Charles Prince and has many times attended performances of the Plainfield Symphony Orchestra led by his son at Plainfield's historic Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church.
[PBS will encore the documentary on Prince's life "Harold Prince -- The Director's Life" Friday evening (August 2nd) at 10:00 PM on Channel 13.]
Prince's career spanned nearly 70 years as both a producer and director of some of Broadway's most famous musicals.
Among his hits are Fiddler On The Roof, West Side Story, Cabaret, Company, Evita and Phantom Of The Opera.
Under Prince's direction, American musical theater took on challenging and darker material than the traditional "feel-good" plots. In Kiss Of The Spider Woman, he treated gay persecution and political prisoners; in Sweeney Todd, he took on a murderous Victorian barber who turned his victims into meat pies -- hardly the subject of musical theater ever before.
Hal Prince died in Reykjavik, Iceland, while returning to the US from Europe.
He is survived by his wife Judy, his daughter Daisy, and his son Charles.
Our deepest condolences to Charles Prince and to Hal Prince's family. We have lost one of the greats.
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