Harold Prince Thinking Quotations

Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.

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.

I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.

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

I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.

You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.