Prince of Broadway musical arrving Nov 2012

A new Broadway musical, Prince of Broadway, that will celebrate the life and career of multi Tony Award-winning director and producer Harold "Hal" Prince is to open on Broadway in Nov 2012 - it had previously been reported that the show would arrive in the summer of 2012.

The show, which had planned a pre-Broadway engagement in Toronto, will now arrive directly on the Great White Way.

"Prince of Broadway has developed over the past year, we have come to the conclusion that the show must go directly to Broadway," said Aubrey Dan, President, Dancap Productions. "Over the past year, the scale of the show has grown so considerably that the costs of a pre-Broadway try-out no longer make financial sense. While we are of course disappointed that the production won't premiere in Toronto, the financial implications coupled with the creative team and acting company schedules necessitated this revised plan to open directly on Broadway."

Produced by Aubrey Dan, Martyn Hayes and Peter W. Lamb for Dancap Productions Inc, Prince of Broadway features a book by David Thompson (The Scottsboro Boys, Chicago [adaptation]) and will feature words and music from the shows that have earned Hal Prince a record 21 Tony Awards.

The musical will be directed by Harold Price, with co-direction and choreography by Susan Stroman (The Producers, Contact, Crazy for You).

Harole Prince said, "Happily, Susan Stroman is co-directing with me and David Thompson is the writing the book for a cast of my favorite performers, most of whom I've worked with numerous times. I'll miss opening in Toronto because that city has been very good to me on many occasions. But hopefully, Torontonians will visit us in New York and, if things turn out as well as we wish, we'll visit them subsequently."

The design team includes scenic and projection design by Jerome Sirlin, costume design by William Ivey Long (Catch Me If You Can, The Producers, Crazy for You), lighting design by Howell Binkley (Memphis, Jersey Boys) and sound design by Peter Hylenski (The Scottsboro Boys, Rock of Ages).

Harold Prince is the recipient of 21 Tony Awards. He as directed the original productions of 'Cabaret,' 'Sweeney Todd,' 'A Little Night Music,' 'The Phantom of the Opera,' 'She Loves Me,' 'Company,' 'Follies,' 'Candide,' 'Pacific Overtures,' 'Evita,' 'Parade,' 'LoveMusik' and 'Paradise Found.' Before becoming a director, Prince's productions included 'The Pajama Game,' 'Damn Yankees,' 'West Side Story,' 'Fiddler on the Roof,' 'Fiorello!' and 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.' Among the plays he has directed are 'Hollywood Arms,' 'The Visit,' 'The Great God Brown,' 'End of the World,' 'Play Memory' and his own play, 'Grandchild of Kings.'

Prince has served as a trustee for the New York Public Library and on the National Council of the Arts of the NEA. Recently, he became an officer with the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Government for "contributing significantly to furthering the arts in France and throughout the world." He is the recipient of a National Medal of Arts for the year 2000 from President Clinton for a career spanning more than 40 years, in which "he changed the nature of the American musical."