PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Wanted Pigeons in Original Production, but They’d ‘Sh— All Over the Audience’
When The Phantom of the Opera opened 40 years ago at His Majesty’s Theatre in the West End, there were quite a few elements that may have been different from the show we all know today. A retrospective on the famed Andrew Lloyd Webber musical published Monday, October 5, in The Guardian revealed that late director Harold Prince had a few ideas early on in the process that never came to fruition. According t…