Is the "Male COMPANY" leaseable?

[Skip23]

Posted: 12/7/21 at 9:43pm

Now that we have the official "Female COMPANY", will it be possible to lease the "Male COMPANY" to perform?

[sng]

Posted: 12/7/21 at 9:46pm

you have to reach out to the licensor, but I guess it's just like genderbending a role? no?

[Kad]

Posted: 12/7/21 at 9:51pm

This production is not (yet?) licensible nor was it ever meant to supplant the existing version of the show. 

[Skip23]

Posted: 12/7/21 at 10:39pm

Kad said: "This production is not (yet?) licensible nor was it ever meant to supplant the existing version of the show."

But will they both be available to license?

 

 

[dramamama611]

Posted: 12/7/21 at 10:48pm

Right now, you would only be able to get the male Bobby  version.  I would expect that eventually, you would be allowed to choose.

[Kad]

Posted: 12/8/21 at 11:44am

Skip23 said: "Kad said: "This production is not (yet?) licensible nor was it ever meant to supplant the existing version of the show."

But will they both be available to license?"

The show hasn't even opened yet, that's impossible to definitively answer at this time.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 12/8/21 at 11:56am

Skip23 said: "Kad said: "This production is not (yet?) licensible nor was it ever meant to supplant the existing version of the show."

But will they both be available to license?"

I would expect both will be available to license eventually, but the producer would have to choose between each before buying the rights, as the profit participants will be divided differently (Elliott, new orchestrations/arrangements, etc) for the "revisal." Not unlike how you can license either version of THE ODD COUPLE, or different versions of CABARET.

This does not feel like a LA CAGE situation, where Jerry Herman and particularly Harvey Fierstein felt the 2010 revision of LA CAGE finally achieved what they wanted with the book and made the most sense for contemporary audiences, even if it meant losing the ability to license the original orchestrations. (The 1983 version of the show cannot be licensed anymore)

Updated On: 12/8/21 at 11:56 AM

[dramamama611]

Posted: 12/8/21 at 12:27pm

I just popped over to MTI (holder of the rights) and there are no restrictions (at least published) about securing rights to the original version.  Usually, when a show is remounted, restrictions are only placed on anyone else doing the show within a certain radius of NYC.  I was denied rights to Grease because one of the tours was going to be in Boston within a month (or so) of our dates.  (actually, our previously granted rights were pulled.)