I've written in the past here about my friend Jim Brochu. He's an actor, writer, director, producer…there's not a whole lot that Jim doesn't do. I don't think he's much of a podiatrist but he could probably learn it. Anyway, he sometimes does this marvelous one-man play called Zero Hour, in which he magically becomes Zero Mostel for an hour or two. He knew Zero and the play does great service to the man and his memory.
During a recent revival of the play, Jim had a superstar guest there one night. It was Harold Prince, who as a director and producer worked with Zero on A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum and Fiddler on the Roof. Those are only two of the dozens and dozens of impressive credits Mr. Prince has on his résumé. At that performance of Zero Hour, the play was followed by an on-stage discussion with this man. Here's a video of that important conversation…