20 See Exhibition: In the Company of Harold Prince

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, through March 31.

Losing Hal Prince this year meant the end of an era. No other producer-director will ever again have Prince’s string of stupendous hits; no one

man will ever again become so closely identified with Broadway stagecraft. He worked on everything, from West Side Story to The Phantom of the

Opera, from Cabaret to Sweeney Todd, and if not everything he touched turned to gold—nonetheless, he did have the golden touch. This exhibition at the NYPL is a dragon’s hoard of scripts, photographs, set models, and even re-creations of his paperwork. Study it closely and you might become the next great theatrical mind … if not a Prince, then possibly a really talented duchess. h.s.