In 2006, he was honored with another Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theater. Other notable projects ushered to Broadway by Prince include the original productions of West Side Story (1957), She Loves Me (1963), It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman (1966), Zorba (1968), Pacific Overtures (1976), Side by Side by Sondheim (1977), On the Twentieth Century (1978), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993), Parade (1998) and Lovemusik (2007). [Most read] Some restaurants in Illinois are defying closure orders as ban on indoor service spreads to Chicago suburbs, Hours after Lightfoot announces new COVID-19 restrictions, Birx warns during Chicago visit that closing public spaces won’t be enough, Trump and Biden clash over raging COVID-19 pandemic in final debate that showcased their vastly different visions for the nation, Some restaurants in Illinois are defying closure orders as ban on indoor service spreads to Chicago suburbs. (1950). Prince's other Tony wins came as producer of A Little Night Music (1973) and director of Follies (1972), Candide (1974), Sweeney Todd (1979), Evita (1980) and The Phantom of the Opera (1988), which is now the longest-running musical in Broadway history. Prince seemed to be an easily adaptable master of all these very different eras and aesthetics, often employing avant-garde techniques first articulated by the German theorist and director Bertolt Brecht, while eliminating their tendency to alienate audience members. Prince earned his final Tony Award as director for Show Boat (1995). At the time, Prince told a reporter that he did not think the show was diminished but merely had move with the times. "As per his wishes, there will be no funeral but there will be a celebration of his life this fall with the people he loved most, the members of the theatrical community that he was a part of for seven decades.". There could no argument with that, not on this day. "If you're being obsessive about the process," Prince told the Tribune in 2003, "material really does get inside you and you take it home, you walk around with it on the street.". The Broadway premiere of the now iconic musical Cabaret (1966) marked Prince's first acclaimed work as a director. "Beyond heartbroken to find out that #HalPrince has passed away,", "RIP to the legend Hal Prince. Updated 1442 GMT (2242 HKT) August 1, 2019. That show marked Prince's final Broadway credit. It was Prince who connected the difficult subject matter to global audiences, homing in on such themes as cynicism, ambition and raw passion. See Meryl Streep, James Corden & More in the Sparkly Trailer for, What To Do (Without Broadway! Harold Prince holds his Tony award for best director in a musical for "Show Boat," at Broadway's Minskoff Theater in New Yorkin 1985. Prince touched the lives of many people, and tributes were posted on social media as news of his death spread. By 1955, he won his first Tony with the production, "The Pajama Game, Prince went on to direct and produce some of the greatest and long-running musicals, including "Fiddler on the Roof," "Cabaret," "Sweeney Todd" and "Evita.". Prince found a new collaborator in the young British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who had enjoyed an early success with his rock opera, Jesus Christ Superstar . Still, Prince’s haul of Tony Awards — 21 over his career in a variety of categories — eclipsed that of any other individual. His last collaboration with Sondheim was “Bounce,” later retitled “Road Show,” which premiered at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in 2003 and didn’t do well with critics, a reminder that even the Prince of Broadway sometimes struggled. Especially since Prince's professional life was of such longevity that it straddled the so-called golden age of Broadway musicals, the tin-pan alley tuners that were wholly focused on pleasing an all-American audience, and reached its peak during a very different era, that when colossal British spectacles, many of them produced by Cameron Mackintosh, came to dominate the art form.