The Broadway production team for the popular musical Urinetown accused two Midwest productions of Urinetown of plagiarism. Now, the Ohio production is fighting back with a delcaratory judgment action filed November 22, 2006. The disputes involves copyright protection claims in direction, choreography and set design, not in the play itself. An industry insider told me last week that it has been common practice for local production companies to mimic original productions in terms of direction and choreography, so the dispute is shaking up the industry.
For more on the current controversy, see this article at Playbill.
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