Dancap Leaves 'Prince of Broadway' Production The theater enterprise Dancap Productions, which is based in Toronto, has pulled out as lead producer of "Prince of Broadway," the musical retrospective of the career of the Tony Award-winning producer and director Harold Prince, which is aiming to open on Broadway in November. The president of the company, Aubrey Dan, made the announcement in an interview on Friday with The Toronto Star, saying that he was "no longer moving forward" with the musical, which Mr. Prince has been developing and was going to direct. A spokesman for the production, Adrian Bryan-Brown, said Saturday that the musical was still moving forward. "The "Prince of Broadway" company and creative team has been informed that production on the show will continue without Dancap's involvement," Mr. Bryan-Brown said in an e-mail. Further details will follow shortly. Mr. Bryan-Brown said Mr. Prince was the one informing the actors and creative team of the change. Mr. Dan, a son of the Canadian billionaire Leslie Dan, the generic-drug magnate, originally announced plans to produce "Prince of Broadway" in Toronto and then New York. But he dropped the Toronto leg because, he said, the scale of the show had grown so much that the out-of-town tryout would have been cost prohibitive. He told The Star that he had withdrawn from the production because of "the uncertainty of obtaining the right theater and the difficulty of raising funds in a limited window." A Broadway theater has yet to be announced for the show. The producers said last month that the Tony winners Linda Lavin ("Broadway Bound"), LaChanze ("The Color Purple") and Shuler Hensley ("Oklahoma!") had signed on to the 12-person cast, singing material from shows created by Mr. Prince, the winner of 21 Tony Awards for productions like "Fiddler on the Roof," "Cabaret," "Company," "Follies" and "The Phantom of the Opera." Susan Stroman ("The Producers") will choreograph and co-direct with Mr. Prince. David Thompson is writing the book. Mr. Dan had hoped to become a force on Broadway, as well as a competitor in Canada to Mirvish Productions, that country's powerhouse in commercial theater. Dancap Productions had invested money in several Broadway productions in the last six years, including "Memphis" - the winner of the 2010 Tony for best musical - and, this season, the revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and the musical "Leap of Faith," which opened on Thursday to mostly negative reviews. The company's withdrawal from "Prince of Broadway" is part of a broad reassessment of its future in show business. "I am very proud of what we have accomplished, including presenting 25 award-winning Broadway-style productions" in Canada, Mr. Dan told The Star. But he also acknowledged that some productions had struggled at the box office. "There's not a lot of good product out there these days," he said.