“Bobby Griffith called me one day and said, there’s a book review in The Times. By 1954, after a two-year stint in the Army, an opportunity came his way - a book about a strike in a pajama factory, courtesy of his friend and future producing partner, Robert Griffith.

It’s a very intriguing thing.” Abbott took Prince under his wing, employing him primarily as an assistant stage manager. And here was the clincher - if you can tell that you’re not paying me, then fire me, please. I can afford to work for six months for nothing. I live with my parents and the subway’s a nickel. And then I thought, what am I going to do?” What he did was write a letter to George Abbott, Broadway’s most important producer and director at the time, asking for a job. I wanted what I wanted, and I was going to get it.” He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1948. The legacy of it was that I came out of it a different person - extremely ambitious. And within a space of about three months, it began to go away. I came to my parents and said, I think there’s something really wrong. “I wandered the street having kind of conversations in my head. And at the age of 14, he had what he says was a nervous breakdown. The world that I conjured up in my head was much more real than the world outside.” But the hardships of the Great Depression took its toll on Prince. I had a theater made of cardboard, and I would listen to the opera on Saturdays and Milton Cross would tell the story of the opera.” Announcer: “The opera house is in complete darkness for this opening storm-raging scene.” “And I would move little tin people around on the stage. As a young boy, his family often took him to the theater, where he loved to escape. And they survived.” Harold Prince was born in 1928 and raised in New York City during the Great Depression. History is littered with great works of art that got terrible reviews originally. That was history-making, but not celebrated at its time. ‘West Side Story.’ That never got a Tony. “It’s a nice thing to get them, but they are not a measure. We sat down with this Broadway titan in September 2008, to discuss his career and the astounding 21 Tony awards he has won, more Tonys than anyone else. Prince, perhaps more than anyone else, trailblazed a new direction for the modern musical. “The Pajama Game.” “West Side Story.” “Fiddler on the Roof.” And “Phantom of the Opera,” the longest-running show in Broadway history. You’re as naked as you were the first day you worked, and you better make it good.” For more than half a century, Harold Prince produced or directed many of the most successful and influential musicals on Broadway.

“No show gets a free ride because you had a success before. Transcript The Last Word: Harold Prince In a never-before-seen interview, the legendary Broadway producer Harold Prince sat down with The New York Times in 2008 to talk about his life, career and accomplishments.

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