I don't see in the Wasson bio anything quite so specific as vowing never to work with him again (I could be missing it), but conflicts between Prince and Fosse go back to Damn Yankees. (I could borrow the Gottfried bio from Internet Archive and look in there. Maybe I will later.) And I did wonder when I posted if I should mention Yankees instead. For some reason I forgot about New Town, although I know the history well. Verdon seems to have been more angry at Abbott than Prince about that, but undoubtedly at both. At least that's the impression I get from the Wasson bio.
But, based on Wasson, it seems that by the early 1970s, Fosse's anger at Prince had subsided. But Verdon's might well have still been active as there is an account of a dinner with Prince, his wife, the Simons and Fosse, with Gwen not showing up, but seemingly because the marriage was in trouble, not because of anger at Prince.
Thanks for bringing this up. It certainly is likely that Verdon feeling at least some anger toward Prince went way back. |
