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eveningblueSo I wonder if any of my fandom friends have been following this at all.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/18/theater/threes-company-lawyers-object-to-the-play-3c.html?ref=arts
An off-broadway show that recently closed (and that I was lucky enough to see) called 3C was very much (no, not "loosely" at all) based on the hit '70s sitcom Three's Company. Now the copyright owners are giving the playwright grief about it, and he's agreed not to publish his script and not to allow any future productions of the play.
In the play, the characters of Three's Company (with slightly different names but clearly, recognizably those characters) are given deeper, richer characters while acting out a slightly altered version of the pilot episode. I really enjoyed it, and as I was watching it I was thinking, "This is fan fiction!"
I hope something is done to keep the play alive, even if only in script form.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/18/theater/threes-company-lawyers-object-to-the-play-3c.html?ref=arts
An off-broadway show that recently closed (and that I was lucky enough to see) called 3C was very much (no, not "loosely" at all) based on the hit '70s sitcom Three's Company. Now the copyright owners are giving the playwright grief about it, and he's agreed not to publish his script and not to allow any future productions of the play.
In the play, the characters of Three's Company (with slightly different names but clearly, recognizably those characters) are given deeper, richer characters while acting out a slightly altered version of the pilot episode. I really enjoyed it, and as I was watching it I was thinking, "This is fan fiction!"
I hope something is done to keep the play alive, even if only in script form.
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Date: 2012-07-18 08:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-20 02:32 am (UTC)Here's a letter that playwright Jon Robin Baitz wrote (and others in the theater community signed).
http://www.theawl.com/2012/07/a-letter-from-the-theater-community-regarding-david-adjmis-3-c