| re: What went wrong with Oliver Platt in "Guys and Dolls"? | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 10:34 pm EST 02/09/25 | |
| In reply to: re: What went wrong with Oliver Platt in "Guys and Dolls"? - sc2 01:50 pm EST 02/09/25 | |
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| It closed because it wasn't doing good enough business. Once a rights-holder signs off on the creative team and perhaps makes other stipulations or gets other privileges, such is casting approval, the rights holder can't close a show unless the production breaks stipulations agreed to in the contract. I have never heard anything suggesting that happened. That doesn't mean that she was necessarily happy with the production, but I think she would not have had the right to close it. If she had been unhappy, she could have demanded changes, at least if the contract allowed her that option. She allowed it to open and so she either was reasonably happy with the production or had signed an agreement that did not allow her to demand changes beyond those she may have already demanded. Authors and rights-holders can shut down productions that break agreements specified in the contract they have signed. There is no indication that this Guys and Dolls did that. And, at least sometimes, if a production does things that conflict with the rights agreement, they are given a warning that changes must be made ASAP. Had such a warning been issued, the production almost surely would have complied. Since this was not a regional production, and Jo Sullivan was around, the time to do something would have been during rehearsals or previews. |
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