Patti LuPone, pre-Pose, striking a pose for Hal Prince's Evita. (Image via Broadway Theatre)

In 2008, Hal Prince — who as a producer and/or as a director has touched most of the best musicals of Broadway's past 60 years — said:

I'm totally mindful that nobody will ever have the life I've had in the theater. That's past. And that's damn sad.

Sadly, he was not bragging. Sadder still, he was right. RIP.

FULL OBIT HERE.