Creating the «New Musical» Harold Prince in Berlin: In Collaboration with Daniel Brunet and Miguel Angel Esquivel Rios

ISBN-13: 9783631558782 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 224 str.

Geraths, Armin

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This volume is a contribution to the aesthetics of the -new musical-, which has developed into a high art form over the last thirty years. The decisive breakthrough occurred with Bernstein s West Side Story in 1957. It was the producer of this show, Harold Prince, whose subsequent epoch-making directorial and conceptual work created the basis on which the individual work of Kander, Sondheim and Lloyd Webber reached a unified level of the highest quality. The -new musical- and its creator Harold Prince were the subjects of a symposium held at the Neukollner Oper in Berlin a few days after the World Premiere of Bounce in the presence of the Broadway Master. Contributors were academics and theatre practitioners offering a double perspective modeled on the outstanding example of the collaboration set by Foster Hirsch and Harold Prince."

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Contents: Armin Geraths: Introductory Note - Peter Erdmann: The Dean's Welcome Address - Harold Prince: Foreword - Foster Hirsch: Harold Prince: Introductory Remarks by his Biographer - Foster Hirsch: Stage Interview - Rüdiger Bering: Harold Prince and Stephen Sondheim: Adult Musicals - Armin Geraths: The Musical as Entertainment and the Dilemma of Higher Meanings in Harold Prince's Lloyd Webber Productions - Thomas Siedhoff: European Traces in the Work of Harold Prince - Wolfgang Jansen: From Cabaret to The Phantom of the Opera. Harold Prince's Musicals in the German Theatre - Miguel Angel Esquivel Rios: The Kiss of the Spider Woman: From Manuel Puig's Novel through Hector Babenco's Film to Harold Prince's Musical Concept - Michael Pinkerton: Speaking of Harold Prince - Michael Kunze: Harold Prince - Highly Personal - Peter Lund: Someday Mister Prince Will Come - Wolfgang Jansen/Angela Reinhardt: An Interview with Harold Prince for musicals - Das Musicalmagazin - Harold Prince: Answers to an Anonymous Journalist at the Symposium - Daniel Brunet: Interview with Terrence McNally about Harold Prince and Kiss of the Spider Women.