Prince Valiant

I really enjoyed Harold Prince: A Director's Life, a new PBS special about the great director (and producer) of so many fine Broadway shows. He was involved in one capacity or both in The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, West Side Story, Fiorello!, West Side Story, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof, Flora, The Red Menace, Cabaret, Zorba, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Candide, Pacific Overtures, On the Twentieth Century, Sweeney Todd, Evita, Merrily We Roll Along, The Phantom of the Opera, Kiss of the Spider Woman and a few million others.

Even if you aren't a theater buff, you might get something out of it. Hearing Prince explain why he did this or that or how he handled being in charge just might teach you something that's applicable in some other profession or arena. I'm going to watch it again and maybe again after that.

You can catch it for a while on your local PBS station and it's also online for a limited time at this link.