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1955
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1983
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1955
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1955
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1983
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{"value"=>"Harold Prince scores"}
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Music Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center</span> <span class=\"addressline\">40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498</span></div>"}
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{"value"=>"Harold Prince (b. 1928), is a producer and director of theater, film and opera, but is best known for his work on Broadway musicals. Prince, who is commonly known as Hal Prince, began his career in 1948 as an assistant in the office of Broadway director and producer George Abbott. During his early years with Abbott, he made valuable connections with Robert E. Griffith, who would later become his producing partner and Ruth Mitchell, who would be his longtime assistant and production supervisor. Griffith and Prince scored a huge success in their first producing project, The Pajama Game (1954) and had many subsequent Broadway hits until Griffith's death in 1961. Prince began directing with the play, A Family Affair (1962). He has gone on to have a notably prolific career, directing and/or producing many landmark Broadway musicals, including Cabaret (1966), West Side Story (1957), Fiddler on the Roof (1964), Follies (1972), Evita (1979) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979) and The Phantom of the Opera (1987). Principal collaborators on musical theater productions include the songwriters Stephen Sondheim; Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick; John Kander and Fred Ebb; Larry Grossman; Betty Comden and Adolph Green; and Andrew Lloyd Webber. In addition to musicals and plays, Prince also has directed operas and two feature films, and appeared in many documentaries and tributes; in 1974 he published an autobiography, Contradictions: Notes on Twenty-Six Years in the Theatre. This collection consists of scores to Broadway musicals directed and produced by Harold Prince from the 1950s through the 1980s, arranged alphabetically by show title and by song title within each show. In the cases of Sweeney Todd and certain conductor scores for A Doll’s Life, as noted, where the complete score existed, it has been left in running order. The bulk of the collection consists of scores from A Doll’s Life, by Larry Grossman and Betty Comden and Adolph Green, including oversized conductor scores and full orchestra parts. The collection also covers, with near completeness the scores to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Evita, (1979) Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick’s She Loves Me (1963) and Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, (1973) Side by Side by Sondheim (1977) and Sweeney Todd (1979). Items of special interest in the collection are unused materials from A Doll’s Life and Pacific Overtures."}
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Harold Prince scores, Music Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Prince, Harold, 1928-", "type"=>"persname"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Harold Prince was born in New York City on January 28th, 1928 to an upper-middle class family. As a child he regularly attended the theater. At age 16, he enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania, where he pursued a standard liberal arts curriculum and read and wrote plays in his spare time. He graduated at age 19 and returned to New York and soon came to the notice of the musical comedy director/producer George Abbott. Prince submitted a play to Abbott's office and, at age 20, found himself working there as a general assistant and later as Production Stage Manager. During his early years with Abbott, he made valuable connections with Robert Griffith, who would later become his producing partner and Ruth Mitchell, who would be his lifetime assistant and production supervisor.</p> <p>After spending two years in the army, stationed in Germany, Prince returned to the Abbott office to work on the original production of <em>Wonderful Town</em> (1953) and to launch his career, with Robert Griffith, as a producer, under Abbott's patronage. In their first project, <em>The Pajama Game</em>, (1954) Griffith and Prince scored a huge success and introduced to Broadway a new song-writing team, Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, and a new choreographer, Bob Fosse. Over the course of the next several years, Griffith and Prince, sometimes with Frederick Brisson, produced such shows as <em>Damn Yankees</em>, (1955) <em>New Girl In Town</em>, (1957) <em>West Side Story</em>, (1957) <em>Fiorello</em>, (1959) <em>Tenderloin</em>, (1960) and <em>A Call On Kuprin</em> (1961).</p> <p>Soon after the death of Robert Griffith in 1961, Prince moved on to directing when he was called to Philadelphia to fix <em>A Family Affair</em> (1962) during its out of town tryout. For the next few years he continued to produce such shows, often directed by Abbot, which would establish his relationships with some of the principal collaborators of his career, such as Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick and John Kander and Fred Ebb. During this period Prince also directed such productions as <em>She Loves Me</em> (1963) <em>Baker Street</em>, (1965) and <em>It's A Bird... It's A Plane...It's Superman</em> (1966). His first unqualified success as a director came with Kander and Ebb's <em>Cabaret</em> (1966.) This show has been heralded as a landmark in the history of musical theater, paving the way for the new generation of thought-provoking, serious musicals, with which Prince's named would be constantly associated.</p> <p>Starting in 1970, Prince embarked on a collaboration with Sondheim that produced a series of ground-breaking musicals covering a wide range of subjects and styles, which have subsequently reached legendary status, <em>Company</em>, (1970) with a book by George Furth; <em>Follies</em>, (1971) with a book by James Goldman and which Prince co-directed with renowned choreographer, Michael Bennett; <em>A Little Night Music</em> (1973) with a book by Hugh Wheeler; <em>Pacific Overtures</em> (1976) with a book by John Weidman; <em>Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street</em>, (1979) with a book by Wheeler; and <em>Merrily We Roll Along</em> (1981) with a book by Furth. During this period of intense collaboration with Sondheim, Prince also directed other original musicals, such as Cy Coleman and Betty Comden and Adolph Green's <em>On The Twentieth Century</em> (1978) and Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's <em>Evita</em> (1979) as well as revivals of Leonard Bernstein's <em>Candide</em>, (1974) and straight plays, such as Frederich Duerrenmatt's <em>The Visit</em> (1973).</p> <p>In the 1980s and 1990s Prince re-united with former collaborators and formed ties with many new ones. He directed two shows with scores by composer Larry Grossman, <em>A Doll's Life</em>, (1982) with book and lyrics by Comden and Green and <em>Grind</em> (1985). Other original musicals included Gilbert Becaud and Julian More's <em>Roza</em>, (1987) Andrew Lloyds Webber's blockbuster, <em>The Phantom Of The Opera</em>, (1988) Kander and Ebb's <em>Kiss Of The Spider Woman</em> (1993) and Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry's <em>Parade</em> (1998). Prince also directed a major revival of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's <em>Show Boat</em> in 1994. In 2003 Prince directed Sondheim and Weidman's <em>Bounce</em> which was produced in Chicago and Washington D. C. In 2007 he directed the Broadway production, <em>Lovemusik</em>, a musical biography of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya. <em>Paradise Found</em> opened in London in May 2010. In addition to musicals and plays, Prince has also directed operas and two feature films, and appeared in many documentaries and tributes and in 1974 he published an autobiography, <em>Contradictions: Notes on Twenty-Six Years in the Theatre</em>.</p> <p>Prince married Judy Chaplin, the daughter of composer Saul Chaplin in 1962. They have two children, director Daisy Prince and conductor Charlie Prince.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection consists of scores to Broadway musicals directed and produced by Harold Prince from the 1950s through the 1980s, arranged alphabetically by show title and by song title within each show. In the cases of <em>Sweeney Todd</em> and certain conductor scores for <em>A Doll's Life</em>, as noted, where the complete score existed, it has been left in running order. The bulk of the collection consists of scores from <em>A Doll's Life</em>, by Larry Grossman and Betty Comden and Adolph Green, including oversized conductor scores and full orchestra parts. The collection also covers, with near completeness the scores to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's <em>Evita</em>, (1979) Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's <em>She Loves Me</em> (1963) and Stephen Sondheim's <em>A Little Night Music</em>, (1973) <em>Side by Side by Sondheim</em> (1977) and <em>Sweeney Todd</em> (1979). Items of special interest in the collection are unused materials from <em>A Doll's Life</em> and <em>Pacific Overtures.</em></p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Harold Prince scores are arranged in eighteen series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20328#c1112978'><span class=\"title\">Ashmendai</span>, by Josef Tal</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20328#c1112979'><span class=\"title\">Cabaret</span>, Music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb, Book by Joe Masteroff</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20328#c1112981'><span class=\"title\">Company</span>, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by George Furth, Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20328#c1113009'><span class=\"title\">Damn Yankees</span>, Music by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, Lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, Book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20328#c1113010'><span class=\"title\">A Doll's Life</span>, Music by Larry Grossman, Book and Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Orchestrations by Bill Byers</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20328#c1113697'><span class=\"title\">Evita</span>, Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Book and Lyrics by Tim Rice, Orchestrations by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Hershy Kay</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20328#c1113735'><span class=\"title\">Fiddler on the Roof</span>, Music by Jerry Bock, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick; Book by Joseph Stein, Based on stories by Sholom Aleichem</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20328#c1113736'><span class=\"title\">Flora, the Red Menace</span>, Music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb, Book by George Abbott and Robert Russell</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20328#c1113737'><span class=\"title\">Follies</span>, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by James Goldman, Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20328#c1113750'><span class=\"title\">Grind</span>, Music by Larry Grossman, Lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh, Book by Fay Kanin, Orchestrations by Bill Byers</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20328#c1113754'><span class=\"title\">A Little Night Music</span>, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Hugh Wheeler, Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20328#c1113770'><span class=\"title\">New Girl in Town</span>, Music by Bob Merrill, Lyrics by Bob Merrill, Book by George Abbott</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20328#c1113771'><span class=\"title\">On The Twentieth Century</span>, Music by Cy Coleman, Book and Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Orchestrations by Hershy Kay</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20328#c1113774'><span class=\"title\">Pacific Overtures</span>, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by John Weidman, Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20328#c1113783'><span class=\"title\">She Loves Me</span>, Music by Jerry Bock, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, Book by Joe Masteroff, Orchestrations by Don Walker</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20328#c1113788'><span class=\"title\">Side by Side by Sondheim</span>, Music by Stephen Sondheim, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Additional music by Leonard Bernstein, Mary Rodgers, Richard Rodgers and Jule Styne, Continuity by Ned Sherrin</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>(Alphabetical by song title.)</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20328#c1113794'><span class=\"title\">Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street</span>, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Hugh Wheeler, Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick</a></div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>(This score is complete and arranged in running order)</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20328#c1113855'><span class=\"title\">West Side Story</span>, Music by Leonard Bernstein, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Arthur Laurents</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Alphabetical by show title</p>", "supress_display"=>true}
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Processed by: Diana Bertolini, November 2005. Revised: October 2010</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>Processed and encoded through a gift from Robert W. Wilson.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>See also the Harold Prince papers in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts</p>"}
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{"type"=>"did", "value"=>"The Harold Prince papers are held by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and have been separated into three groups: paper records in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection, music in the Music Division, and audio materials in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound"}
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26 linear feet (35 boxes)