Hal Prince

‍Hal Prince directed the original productions of Cabaret, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, The Phantom of the Opera, She Loves Me, Company, Follies, Candide, Pacific Overtures, Evita, Parade, LoveMusik and Paradise Found.

Before becoming a director, Hal Prince’s productions included: The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello! and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Among the plays he directed are: Hollywood Arms, The Visit, The Great God Brown, End of the World, Play Memory and his own play Grandchild of Kings.

He prepared a new version of Phantom, which ran in Las Vegas at the Venetian Hotel from 2006 to 2012. His opera productions were seen at Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Dallas Opera, Vienna Staatsoper and the Theater Colon in Buenos Aires. Prince of Broadway, a musical compendium of Mr Prince’s entire career, opened in Tokyo in 2015 and on Broadway in 2017. Mr Prince was a trustee for the New York Public Library and previously served on the National Council on the Arts for the NEA. Mr Prince was named an Officier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

He was the recipient of 21 Tony Awards, a Kennedy Center Honor and a National Medal of the Arts from President Clinton for a career in which ‘he changed the nature of the American musical’.

30 January 1928 - 31 July 2019‍