Hal Prince is a hack- Page 3
Hal Prince is a hack
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#51Was Hal Prince ever a commercial success?
Posted: 11/2/12 at 5:51am
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Updated On: 11/2/12 at 05:51 AM
#52Was Hal Prince ever a commercial success?
Posted: 11/2/12 at 8:27am
Well the troll has mercifully been deleted, but Riedel talks about the Prince of Broadway in his column today.
Link
....but the world goes 'round
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#53Was Hal Prince ever a commercial success?
Posted: 11/2/12 at 11:09am
If he just had Fiddler and Phantom he'd be enormously successful on the$ side. Not only has he had other hits but since when does not having commercial success equate with being a hack. In fact many commercially successful people are hacks whether in the theater or elsewhere.
#54Was Hal Prince ever a commercial success?
Posted: 11/2/12 at 12:28pm
Prince has had his fair share of flops- but anyone who has worked on as many shows as he has will have their fair share.
Phantom on Broadway owed its out of the box success to the media storm that came from across the pond- people were being told what an amazing show it was and that tickets were going to be impossible to get, that Crawford was giving a once in a lifetime performance, and the list goes on. His guiding hand helped to ensure that it was a hit in London. If Webber had his way with another director- things may have turned out much different. I have always felt that Maria Bjornson and Hal Prince, combined with some soaring and repetitive melodies are Phantom's killer combination.
I actually think if this show is pieced together properly and sells itself on the shows included, which as stated previously make up most of the most famous and successful musicals of all time- this could be a really big hit.
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#55Was Hal Prince ever a commercial success?
Posted: 11/2/12 at 12:36pmCompany closed with a very small profit at the end of its Broadway run.
#56Was Hal Prince ever a commercial success?
Posted: 11/2/12 at 8:12pmReading this thread without the OP's comments is odd. Like "Garfield Minus Garfield."
#58Was Hal Prince ever a commercial success?
Posted: 11/2/12 at 8:31pm
Page 2 looks just like page 3.
And page 2 looked an awful lot like page 1.
Weird.
#59Was Hal Prince ever a commercial success?
Posted: 11/4/12 at 9:15pmThis thread is most confusing. Are we talking about Hal Prince the director? Hal Prince the producer? Who? I think we can agree that he met his Waterloo at the opera, as his adventures at the MET with FAUST and NYCO with BUTTERFLY can attest. (I don't count the opera house repeats of his earlier Broadway work- different animals altogether.)
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#60Was Hal Prince ever a commercial success?
Posted: 11/4/12 at 9:18pmIf Prince was a hack what does that make David Merrick or Alexander Cohen.
Poster Emeritus
#61Was Hal Prince ever a commercial success?
Posted: 11/4/12 at 9:21pmThe same thing Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom were- producers.
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#62Was Hal Prince ever a commercial success?
Posted: 11/4/12 at 9:48pmThis was a troll's thread and half the posts have been deleted.
