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...golden years of his half-century career have been the past decade, when he has designed all of Hal Prince's musicals from Cabaret to Pacific Overtures. To see his work is like seeing the graph of a sensitive mind in motion. His perception of Company: "Movement in New York is vertical, horizontal, angular, never casual. In Versailles, you bow; in New York, you dodge cabs. Finally, I conceived a set that was basically a gymnasium for acting...
...could discover, to the part of Bolingbroke at any single point. I did not catch a glimpse of the character from one end of his performance to the other...Mr. Gillmore followed every sentence with a forced explosion of mirthless laughter, evidently believing that as Prince Hal was reputed to be a humorous character it was his business to laugh at him...Mr. Tree wants only one thing to make him an excellent Falstaff, and that is to get born over again as unlike himself as possible. No doubt in the course of a month or two, when he begins...
Winner of ten Tony awards as producer and/or director of such Broadway productions as West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Candide, and Company, Hal Prince has practically redefined the modern American musical, swapping its persistent tradition of formulaic fluff and glossy chorus lines for social themes and theatrical vigor. Pacific Overtures, his latest offering, features an all-Asian cast, score by collaborator Steven Sondheim, and a story based on Matthew Perry's invasion on Japan, sailed out of its Boston try-outs last week (after meeting with some rough weather from the critics) for a January 11th docking...
...tour, there are obligatory stops: Esalen, ESP and the elusive Carlos Castaneda, whom Goodman traps briefly in a stair well. "I'm Carlos' double," the gentleman insists before scooting off. Indeed, many people are not what they seem to be. Swami Hal, for example, is a 260-lb. mystic who runs a kind of Boys' Town ashram in the Northwest wilderness and talks like a dead...
Until the strike, there were 34 walkers on Broadway earning a total of $10,000 a week. Eighteen months ago, when Producer Hal Prince brought Candide to Broadway, he asked the union if he could use only 13 musicians. It insisted on 25 players, costing Prince an additional $180,960 a year. Despite Candide's success, the show is still in the red. Complains Prince: "If I didn't have to pay the extra musicians, I would have paid back my investors. They would have come into new shows. As it is, I have lost...