Dance and Theater
Prince composed the music for two groundbreaking ballets choreographed by Jerome Robbins for his company Ballets USA; N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz (1958) and Events (1961), as well as incidental music for the play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad which Robbins directed off-Broadway in 1962.
Prince also composed and arranged music for the musicals Something More! (1964), Half a Sixpence (1965) and The Office (1966).
Read more about this topic: Ballets By Robert Prince
Famous quotes containing the words dance and, dance and/or theater:
“Listen, sister. I don’t dance and I can’t take time out now to learn.”
—Frank W. Wead (1895?–1947)
“I’ll dance above your green, green grave
Where you do lie beneath.””
—Unknown. The Brown Girl (l. 59–60)
“We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)