#Hal Prince

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The full original ending for Company.

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“you guys aren’t even a good duo ://“

FUCKING!!! US!!!:

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Happy heavenly birthday Hal Prince!!

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Merrily We Roll Along (2023, Broadway) - Digital Booklet Pics

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March 1, 1979: Sweeney Todd opens at the Uris.

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Ethan and Anne Görner in The Phantom of the Opera

Ethan was the first Jewish actor in history to perform the role of The Phantom. A favourite of Hal Prince, Ethan performed the role on West End as well as in Toronto, Vienna and Germany.

Together with Hal he worked to include as many aspects of Erik, the Phantom, from the original Leroux novel as possible in the musical, earning him the nickname "The Leroux Phantom" amongst Phans.

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Hello 💕 I saw your post when the west end revival first opened and you said they were using old proscenium bits. Can you kindly point them out? I really couldn’t see it…

Assuming you mean the sculptures, you needn't look very far to find them: They are in the upper corners.

The overall structure of the new proscenium is three layers. There is the top curve with lyres (where the Golden Angel previously was), then the middle part which originally would have been the main proscenium with sculptures, and then the stage-based false boxes. Unlike the original design the false boxes are now carrying some of the proscenium, which kinda makes them a part of the proscenium.

The outer proscenium thus has less decoration, with sculptures only in the upper corners. The sides and top is straighter and without sculptures. More noticable, of course, the Golden Angel in the middle is gone, and the outer lyre part curves out more which makes it a separate piece. In the past it was more integrated into the overall design. So the general look is quite different from the original, but with recognizable elements. Current look:

Original look (here from Broadway):

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“The Phantom of the Opera” opened in the West End on October 9, 1986. 

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like damn. this still rules

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50min Company Pre Boston Tryout Promo aquired 😎

I feel everyone has the right to hear these recordings as theres so much obscure stuff that people never want to share and theres a whole gatekeeping factor about bootlegs that is just ridiculous.

This reel contains interviews with Barbara Barrie, Dean Jones, Elaine Stritch, Hal Prince, Stephen Sondheim. Intertwined with Company, Sorry Grateful, You Can Drive A Person Crazy, Someone Is Waiting, Another Hundred People, and Happily Ever After. With a super strong Burt Bacharach sort of production style on all the songs

heres a little sneak peak of the opening number for whats to come...

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286 - Something for Everyone (w/ Chris Schleicher) (70s Spectacular - 1970)

It's time to kick off our May miniseries - the This Had Oscar Buzz: 70s Spectacular! For 1970, television writer Chris Schleicher joins us for a forgotten tale of wealth, deception, and Bavarian castles. The directorial debut of stage legend Hal Prince (and with a screenplay by his frequent collaborator Hugh Wheeler, from the novel The Cook by Harry Kressing), Something for Everyone starred a pre-Cabaret Michael York as a young man who weasel's his way into the good graces of a wealthy family in order to claim their family castle. As the family matriarch, Angela Lansbury earned a Golden Globe nomination that didn't translate to Oscar.

This episode, we talk about the 1970 Oscar year dominated by controversy surrounding George C. Scott's rejection of Oscar pomp and circumstance and this film's very obvious similarities to Saltburn. We also talk about Lansbury's Oscar and Tony run preceding the film, Michael York as canonical cinematic bisexual, and Prince's directorial failure adapting A Little Night Music.

Topics also include "It Goes Like It Goes," the supporting actresses of Five Easy Pieces, and our disdain for Love Story.

The 1970 Academy Awards

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Remembering Hal Prince ...

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February 6, 1979: Sweeney Todd has its first Broadway preview.