Hal Prince - Stage credits, Additional Tony Awards, Film credits, Books

Stage director and producer, born in New York City, USA. A stage manager on Broadway, he became a successful producer and director of stage musicals. His first production was The Pajama Game (1954), and other memorable shows include West Side Story (1957), Fiddler on the Roof (1964), and Cabaret (1968). He has maintained a long association with Stephen Sondheim, producing and directing many of the composer's shows, including Sweeney Todd (1979). He also directed Evita (1978) and The Phantom of the Opera (1986) for Andrew Lloyd Webber. Later productions include Whistle Down the Wind (1997) and Candide (1997).

Stage credits

Tickets, Please! - 1950 - assistant stage manager Call Me Madam - 1950 - assistant stage manager Wonderful Town - 1953 - stage manager The Pajama Game - 1954 - co-producer - 1955 Tony Award - Best Musical Damn Yankees - 1955 - co-producer - 1956 Tony Award - Best Musical New Girl in Town - 1957 - co-producer West Side Story - 1957 - co-producer Fiorello! - 1959 - co-producer - 1960 Tony Award - Best Musical - Pulitzer Prize in Drama West Side Story - 1960 - co-producer Tenderloin - 1960 - co-producer A Call on Kuprin - 1961 - producer Take Her, She's Mine - 1961 - producer A Family Affair - 1962 - director A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - 1962 - producer - 1963 Tony Award - Best Musical, 1963 Tony Award - Best Producer of a Musical She Loves Me - 1963 - producer, director Fiddler on the Roof - 1964 - producer - 1965 Tony Award - Best Musical, 1965 Tony Award - Best Producer of a Musical Poor Bitos - 1964 - producer Baker Street - 1964 - director Flora, The Red Menace - 1965 - producer It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman - 1966 - producer, director Cabaret - 1966 - producer, director - 1967 Tony Award - Best Direction of a Musical, 1967 Tony Award - Best Musical Zorba - 1968 - producer, director Company - 1970 - producer, director - 1971 Tony Award - Best Direction of a Musical, 1971 Tony Award - Best Musical Follies - 1971 - producer, director - 1972 Tony Award - Best Direction of a Musical The Great God Brown - 1972 - artistic director Don Juan - 1972 - artistic director A Little Night Music - 1973 - director, producer - 1973 Tony Award - Best Musical Sondheim: A Musical Tribute - 1973 - performer The Visit - 1973 - director Chemin de Fer - 1973 - artistic director Hollywood Arms - 2002 - producer Holiday - 1973- artistic director Candide - 1974 - producer, director - 1974 Tony Award - Best Direction of a Musical, 1974 Tony Award - Special Award Love for Love - 1974 - director The Member of the Wedding - 1975 - artistic director The Rules of the Game - 1974 - artistic director Pacific Overtures - 1976 - producer, director Side by Side by Sondheim - 1977 - producer Some of My Best Friends - 1977 - director On the Twentieth Century - 1978 - director Sweeney Todd - 1979 - director - 1979 Tony Award - Best Direction of a Musical Evita - 1979 - director - 1980 Tony Award - Best Direction of a Musical Merrily We Roll Along - 1981 - director Willie Stark - 1981 - director A Doll's Life - 1982 - producer, director Play Memory - 1984 - director Grind - 1985 - producer Roza - 1987 - director Cabaret - 1987 - director The Phantom of the Opera - 1988 - director - 1988 Tony Award - Best Direction of a Musical Grandchild Of Kings - 1991 - adaptation (from the stories of Sean O'Casey) and direction Kiss of the Spider Woman - 1993 - director Show Boat - 1994 - director - 1994 Tony Award - Best Direction of a Musical The Petrified Prince - 1994 - director Candide - 1997 - director Parade - 1998 - director, co-conceiver 3hree - 2000 - superviser, director (The Flight of the Lawnchair Man) Hollywood Arms - 2002 - producer, director Bounce - 2003 - director

Additional Tony Awards

1972 Tony Award - Special Award 2006 Tony Award - Lifetime Achievement

Film credits

Something for Everyone - 1970 - director A Little Night Music - 1977 - director

Books

Contradictions - 1974 - autobiography Harold Prince and the American Musical Theatre - 1989 (revised 2005) by Foster Hirsch although Prince provides extensive interviews and writes the foreward.