MJ The Musical officially opening on Broadway Summer 2020 — Page 2

bdn223 said: "I don't blame Nottage for wanting a paycheck, she's a female playwright of color. Even with winning the Pulitzer, its not as if producers are clamoring to mount and finance her work. If I had to bet, she is likely making more money on this project then she has on all of her prior work combined."

While I'm sure Nottage's paycheck for this project is handsome, let's not pretend like this is her one shot to make a living in the theatre. Sweat was the second most produced play of the 2018-19 season, and finished a run in London earlier this year. Both Fabulation and By the Way, Meet Vera Stark were revived by Signature during their last season, Atlantic mounted The Secret Life of Bees over the summer, and Lincoln Center is producing an operatic adaptation of Intimate Apparel this coming February. Clearly, there are enough producers willing to "mount and finance her work" that she should be able to walk away from this project should she truly take issue with it.

https://www.thebroadwaybeat.com/all-news/mj-the-musical-offers-discount-to-anyone-who-can-look-at-themselves-in-the-mirror-afterwards

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poisonivy2 said: "His family estate wanting to make a cheery biomusical of this is gross."

Who said it was going to be cheery?

It wouldn't matter if they'd waited five years, because the exact same outraged people in this thread would be posting then and let me tell you how little that matters in the scheme of things.

But it's fun to judge a show prior to knowing a single thing about it, not to mention judging a person based on what you've read. I'm not a judge and I'm not a jury - I have no idea if the allegations are real or not real. I have no idea if this will be a good or bad how - these kinds of things are not really my cup of tea, although I did enjoy Beautiful.

But part of me hopes that it's a hit - just to watch the exploding heads right here on this message board.

bdn223 said: "bk said: "It wouldn't matter if they'd waited five years, because the exact same outraged people in this thread would be posting then and let me tell you how little that matters in the scheme of things.

But it's fun to judge a show prior to knowing a single thing about it, not to mention judging a person based on what you've read. I'm not a judge and I'm not a jury - I have no idea if the allegations are real or not real. I have no idea if this will be a good or bad how - these kinds of things are not really my cup of tea, although I did enjoy Beautiful.

But part of me hopes that it's a hit - just to watch the exploding heads right here on this message board."

No one is saying it won’t be a hit, we are just saying for his alleged victims sake, wehope it isn’t."

By "we" you mean you and the other ten people in this thread who are having your outrage moment? I am glad that you used the word alleged, though.

I’m guessing “ Inappropriate Touching “ was taken as a name for this musical

For some reason, I don't know why, my brain went to...maybe this is a trail run to see if Bombshell could work on Broadway. Marilyn was also a deeply troubled, complicated famous person. Otherwise, I don't know why this is even a thing.

Fan123 said: "I'm not sure how this works, but might Nottage, Wheeldon and possibly others be vulnerable to legal action for breach of contract or something along those lines, if they tried to get out of doing the show now, and maybe even if they said things publicly which could be construed as 'sabotaging' it? Might there also be some kind of legal 'expiry' date for their obligations to the show? If so, maybe that's one reason why the estate would want to get the show going ASAP, as they'd probably never get creatives of the same calibre involved with a project like this again. I might be completely wrong though, no legal/industry expertise here."

While they may have some sort of non-disparagement clause in their contracts, there are very few times (quite possibly never) when there is any sort of iron bound "you can not break this contract under any circumstances" clauses used in entertainment. No even remotely sane producer is going to want to keep a member of the creative team who is truly unhappy (do you think you'll get even half-assed work from a person who is essentially a slave to the production?). Nottage and Wheeldon are both far enough along in their careers that they would know not to sign a contract without an out clause.