9781495013027-1495013022-Sense of Occasion (Applause Books)

Sense of Occasion (Applause Books)

ISBN-13: 9781495013027
ISBN-10: 1495013022
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Harold Prince
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Applause
Format: Hardcover 358 pages
FREE US shipping
Buy

From $18.53

Book details

ISBN-13: 9781495013027
ISBN-10: 1495013022
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Harold Prince
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Applause
Format: Hardcover 358 pages

Summary

Sense of Occasion (Applause Books) (ISBN-13: 9781495013027 and ISBN-10: 1495013022), written by authors Harold Prince, was published by Applause in 2017. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Music (Theatre, Arts & Literature) books. You can easily purchase or rent Sense of Occasion (Applause Books) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Music books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.6.

Description

In this fast-moving, candid, conversational, and entertaining memoir, Harold Prince, the most honored director/producer in the history of the American theater looks back over his seventy-year (and counting!) career.

In 1974, Prince released his first book, Contradictions: Notes on Twenty-Six Years in the Theatre. Although Contradictions has since attained cult status among producers, directors, and actors alike, Prince, in hindsight, believes he wasn't ready to publish such a tome at that point in his career (in fact, doing so was an act of “insane arrogance”). Although he doesn't regret that effort, he is at last prepared to conclude it, to “see where I was right in my assessments and where I was wrong.” In Sense of Occasion, Prince returns to this seminal text, invigorating it with fresh insights cultivated through four decades of additional practice.

Sense of Occasion gives an insider's recollection of the making of such landmark musicals as West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, Evita, and Phantom of the Opera, with Prince's perceptive comments about his mentor George Abbott and his many celebrated collaborators, including Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim, John Kander, Boris Aronson, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Angela Lansbury, Zero Mostel, Carol Burnett, and Joel Grey. As well as detailing his titanic successes that changed the form and content of the American musical theater, Prince evenhandedly reflects on the shows that didn't work, most memorably and painfully Merrily We Roll Along. Throughout, he offers insights into the way business is conducted on Broadway, drawing sharp contrasts between past and present. This thoughtful, complete account of one of the most legendary and long-lived careers in theater history, written by the man who lived it, is an essential work of personal and professional recollection.

Rate this book Rate this book

We would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book