Thursday, March 14, 2019
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Faces New Litigation After Regional Shut Downs
www.broadwayworld.com: BroadwayWorld previously reported cancellations of a number of productions of the Christopher Sergel stage adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird, licensed by Dramatic Publishing, in the UK, Dayton OH, and Buffalo, amongst others across the US.
According to the New York Times, president of Dramatic Publishing Company Christopher Sergel III, who also happens to be the grandson of the original adaptation's author, says he will be suing for damages.
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I write this with great trepidation, but I hope Scott Rudin ends up like Weinstein, because the amount of bull-sh*t spewing out of his mouth. I hope the grandson wins the case because he is getting screwed over. It is noble that it is not only a monetary suit but also for protection for the companies who are the real victims here. Getting cheated out of all the monetary possibilities is what is maddening because I know how precarious the money situation always is. It is like telling every theatre company they cannot do Christmas Carol because one version is being produced at Madison Square Garden. I hope Rudin gets what’s coming to him because I agree with the publishing companies statement that this is shameful. I think I said this in another comment but the squeezing and groping for more money displayed by this man is embarrassing. I doubt it affects the monetary income of the Broadway one penny, except it does now as in I will not go see it because he is so horrible. I hope he finds out this whole debacle will negatively affect the money more than any regional production will.
It’s a pretty weird situation to be in as the rights were not supposed to be licenses and the company doing so was not supposed to (at least according to the statement made, I’m only partially caught up on the ordeal). The reaction I believe was a bit extreme and looked the like the big production was trying to stifle smaller productions to protect their own profits and ensure those who’d see a regional production come take the trip to their show. However, giving them the rights to perform their own production, as opposed to the different adaptation they had [fake?] rights to, negates this money grabbing motive. It really does not make sense to me. Why bother to crush the little guys to only then offer them a hand to get back up? They only left them extremely worse for wear, with loss of time and money from the whole ordeal. I think it’s a little ridiculous to sue again, but if it’ll help fill the financial gap, why not at this point.
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