“It would have been very spoiling and warping and I’d have thought, ‘Gee, so this is what theater is all about. “I’m incredibly happy to have been a part of it, and incredibly happy that it didn’t happen earlier in my career,” Prince said. That means the show is still playing to 93 percent of capacity after almost 8,400 performances – not bad for the longest-running production in Broadway history. “Forgive my vulgarity, but we hit 93 percent on Broadway last week,” he said, sounding like a proud poppa. “My wife thinks she’s married to a crazy person.” At the end of the show I said, ‘I’ll be back in a few minutes.’ They said, ‘Where are you going?’ I had to go backstage and give (the performers) a few notes.” Prince chuckled.
“I was at the 20th-anniversary performance on Broadway on Jan. But Prince, a legendary producer-director who helmed the original 1986 London production of “Phantom” and who supervised rehearsals for the current national touring version that comes to Orange County this week, still pops in on the Masked One regularly to see how he’s doing. Of course, nobody wants to look askance at a musical that has made over $3 billion worldwide and shows no signs of flagging in popularity. You’d think after more than two decades, Harold Prince would be growing a little weary of “The Phantom of the Opera.”
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