Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Prince, Harold, 1928-2019
2. Bowers, Dwight Blocker
3. Henderson, Amy
4. Smithsonian Institution.

Description

1. 1 videocassette (VHS) (54 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. Producer/director Harold Prince discusses the high points of his Broadway career before an audience at the National Portrait Gallery, beginning with his apprenticeship with George Abbott, continuing through collaborations with Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Jerome Robbins on West side story, with Sondheim again on Sweeney Todd and other projects, and concluding with his work on the 1994 revival of Jerome Kern's Show boat, for which he reshaped the original 1927 material for a contemporary audience.

Subject

1. Prince, Harold, 1928-2019 > Interviews
2. Abbott, George, 1887-1995
3. Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990
4. Robbins, Jerome
5. Sondheim, Stephen
6. Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945
7. Smithsonian Institution
8. Theater > United States > Production and direction
9. Musical theater > Washington (D.C.) > Exhibitions
10. Theatrical producers and directors > Interviews

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.

Call number

1. NCOW 205

Note

1. Video quality erratic at beginning of tape.
2. Title from cassette label; no credits on tape.
3. Program begins abruptly.
4. This program was produced in conjunction with Red, hot & blue: a Smithsonian salute to the American musical, an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, jointly organized with the National Museum of American History, October 25, 1996, through July 6, 1997.

Performer (note)

1. Interviewed by Amy Henderson and Dwight Blocker Bowers.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., May 27, 1997.

Title

1. The Prince of Broadway : Harold Prince at the Smithsonian [videorecording] / [video producer, The Smithsonian Institution]

Imprint

1. Washington, D.C., 1997.

Performer

1. Interviewed by Amy Henderson and Dwight Blocker Bowers.

Event

1. Videotaped by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., May 27, 1997.

Local note

1. Gift of Harold Prince.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre on Film and Tape Archive Special Collections material

Added author

1. Prince, Harold, 1928-2019, interviewee.
2. Bowers, Dwight Blocker, interviewer.
3. Henderson, Amy, interviewer.
4. Smithsonian Institution.
5. Prince, Harold, 1928-2019, donor.

Research call number

1. NCOW 205