Limelight

A Director's Journey

By: Carol Ilson

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Paperback | 1 August 2004

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The saga of Hal Prince continues. The last edition of Carol Ilson's biography ended with the apparent demise of Kiss of the Spider Woman after its out-of-town tryout. New York critics were not invited to attend, but they came anyway -- and crushed the show. There was, however, some life in the Spider Woman yet and, resurrected in the form of Chita Rivera, she opened first in London, then on Broadway, was acclaimed in both venues and carried away the 1993 Tony for best musical. So the new material in this second updated edition of Harold Prince, covering the past decade, has a happy beginning, which is followed by the director's joyously welcomed revival of Show Boat. In the years since then the string of successes seems to have frayed a bit, though Prince's most recent directorial effort, Parade, also won itself a Tony for best musical, in 1999. And as this book ends, Hal Prince talks enthusiastically of various forthcoming productions in the planning stage, making clear that the end of his saga is nowhere in sight.

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Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Prologue	p. 1
Broadway Novice Meets Broadway Legend: Harold Prince and George Abbott	p. 5
Broadway's New Producing Team: Griffith and Prince	p. 13
Broadway Innovation: West Side Story	p. 33
The Fifties End	p. 45
The Sixties Begin	p. 55
A Chance to Direct	p. 67
Broadway History: Fiddler on the Roof	p. 95
A Musical Holmes and A Black Comedy	p. 109
A Parting with One Superman--A Meeting with Another	p. 121
A Major Hit and A Near Miss	p. 135
Prince and Sondheim and the "Modern Musical"	p. 159
A Musical in 3/4 Time and An Environmental Restaging	p. 199
A Daring Venture: Pacific Overtures	p. 227
An Ebb of the Tide	p. 243
Back on Board: On the Twentieth Century	p. 249
The Conquering Musical: Evita	p. 261
Broadway Meets Grand Guignol: Sweeney Todd	p. 281
A String of Valiant Attempts	p. 299
A Re-Vision: Cabaret	p. 339
His "Greatest Personal Success"--So Far: The Phantom of the Opera	p. 343
A Trip to Purchase: Kiss of the Spider Woman	p. 361
Kiss of the Spider Woman Reborn	p. 375
Recreating an American Masterpiece: Show Boat	p. 387
Parade	p. 405
Epilogue	p. 413
Appendix	p. 427
Notes	p. 439
Bibliography	p. 481
Index	p. 503
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