40 August 8 • 2019
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soul
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Acclaimed Broadway director, producer
Hal Prince dies at 91
(JTA) Legendary Broadway
producer and director Harold
“Hal” Prince, who brought
Fiddler on the Roof to the
stage, died July 31 at the age
of 91.
Prince, whose credits also
include West Side Story,
Damn Yankees, The Phantom
of the Opera, Cabaret,
Company and Sweeney Todd,
died after what his publicist called a brief
illness, in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Broadway theaters dimmed their
lights for one minute that evening in
tribute to Prince. He requested that there
be no funeral, according to Playbill, and
instead the theatrical community will
later hold a celebration of his life.
Prince received a record 21 Tony
Awards, and was a recipient of a
Kennedy Center Honor. Two of his
Tonys were special awards. In 1972, he
received a special Tony when Fiddler
became the then-longest running
musical, and, in 1974, he received one
for the revival of Candide.
His production of Phantom
of the Opera currently is the
longest-running musical.
He collaborated with
Broadway giants including
George Abbott, Jerome
Robbins, Leonard Bernstein
and Stephen Sondheim
in some of their greatest
undertakings.
Prince of Broadway, a
musical retrospective of his career, made
its Broadway debut in August 2017, after
opening in Tokyo in 2015.
Prince was born in New York
City in 1928. In his 1974 memoir
Contradictions, he described his parents
as “privileged, upper-middle lower rich-
class” German Jews whose families had
immigrated soon after the Civil War. In
the same book, he wrote that “Saturday
matinees were part of a New York Jewish
child’
s intellectual upbringing.
”
He is survived by his wife of 56
years, Judy Chaplin; a daughter, Daisy
Prince; a son, Charles Prince; and three
grandchildren. ■
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