Over the span of his career Harold Prince won 21 Tony Awards, making him one of the most honored individuals in theater history
for NPR. "So, once that happened, you could examine other subjects and make musical numbers about an infinite variety of complicated psychological matter.”
"He always makes me want to go to the piano and write," Sondheim said during the NPR segment. "I always leave meetings with Hal just bursting with ideas. Hal's as stimulating as anybody I've ever met." Prince believed he developed his knack for producing and business acumen from his father, a Wall Street stockbroker. His love of the theater came from his mom, who would take the young Prince to many a Saturday matinee. His first was a Mercury Theater production of Playtime for Prince meant listening to broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera and simultaneously staging them in his living room at home.
In 1944, Prince graduated from The Franklin School, a private Upper West Side prep school, and enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania. He was only 16. Prince opted for a liberal arts curriculum, studying English, psychology, philosophy and history. The goal was to become a playwright. He became an avid member of the Penn Players, writing several productions.
Prince's next assignment would have reunited him with Griffith as assistant stage manager for Ethel Merman's hit . However, the U.S. Army had other ideas, and Prince spent the next two years on duty in Germany. . The show's iconic Master of Ceremonies, which became a star-making turn for Joel Grey, was inspired by his nighttime outings off the base in Stuttgart.
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