Prince
Prince
A prince is a male ruler, monarch, or member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. Prince is also a hereditary title in the nobility of some European states. The feminine equivalent is a princess. The English word derives, via the French word prince, from the Latin noun princeps, from primus+ capio, meaning "the chief, most distinguished, ruler, prince"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth7 June 1958
CityMinneapolis, MN
CountryUnited States of America
Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.
Oh my God, I love UCLA so much. Their film school is great because it's unstructured, so there's a freedom to fail in there and just tell your story, and everybody makes a film. It's so important to have that freedom in film school because that's what you're there for: to learn and make a film.
'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.
A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.
I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college.
I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.
I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.
Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.
We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.
This whole thing is about helping players get the opportunity to have a quality education, and I think that?s a good thing. It?s all about continued progress and continual improvement academically.