The ending is so bad, that it is the one section that was rewritten for our production, but a clip of that has not been posted. In the end, Phyllis was given her divorce that she orchestrated knowing there were still feelings between Ben and Sally. Buddy and Phyllis stroll out past the broken and troubled Ben and Sally, letting the audience know that Buddy's other woman all this time had been Phyllis. Okay, kids. Let's stop playing around. This just got serious.
DrDemento--are you aware that you have just admitted guilt, on a public forum, to one or more counts of copyright infringement?
Think about the ramifications of your actions beyond responding to snarky comments on a website. Your posts here are admitting to criminal action.
Federal copyright law establishes statutory fines for each act of copyright infringement, ranging from a minimum of $500 for "innocent" infringement to a maximum of $100,000 for "willful" infringement.
Your confession in this thread is an admission that your infringement was willful and not innocent. Your lawyer will wish you hadn't done that.
Music Theatre International, from which you licensed the stock-and-amateur rights--
presuming, of course, that you DID license the rights--makes very clear on their website the penalties for willful and malicious actions such as yours:
When you are granted a performance license, by law the show you license must be performed "as is." You have no right to make any changes at all unless you have obtained prior written permission from us to do so. Otherwise, any changes violate the authors’ rights under federal copyright law. Without prior permission from MTI, your actions may subject you to liability - not only to the authors, but also to us - for breaching the terms of your license agreement, which clearly forbids you to make any changes or deletions....It’s important to remember that under Federal copyright law, not only can the director or producer who decided to change the work be held liable, but the entire production staff, cast and crew -- even the owner of the building, can be held liable, whether or not they knew they were part of a willful violation of copyright law. Okay, DrDemento. Here's what you need to do:
Take a deep breath.
Delete your posts here (although some of them have been quoted).
Cease posting in this thread.
And for god's sake, man, delete those damn YouTubes before MTI does!
And next time you feel like rewriting a script, stick to some of the dead playwrights whose work is in the public domain.
Or just don't post about it.
