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	<title>The Theatre Lawyer</title>
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	<description>News, Information and Insight from Gordon P. Firemark, theatrical attorney</description>
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		<description><![CDATA[THIS SITE IS NO LONGER
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		<link>http://theatrelawyer.com/2009/11/28/119/</link>
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		<title>Jeremy Piven&#039;s fish-story gets him off-the-hook.</title>
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THR Esq. reports today that Jeremy Piven&#8217;s mercury poisoning excuse for leaving the Broadway production of &#8220;Speed The Plow&#8221; last season is sufficient, and he&#8217;ll not be liable to the producers for breach of contract, or other claims.  Here&#8217;s the story:
Arbitrator accepts Jeremy Piven&#8217;s sushi explanation&#8211;THR, Esq. &#8211; Entertainment and Media Law.
Interestingly, the show managed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theatrelawyer.com/2009/08/27/jeremy-pivens-fish-story-gets-him-off-the-hook-2/</link>
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		<title>The role(s) of producers in modern theatre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ken Davenport is a Broadway producer who generously blogs his thoughts about the theatre business.  Recently, he posted a terrific explanation of the roles of producer and &#8216;lead&#8217; producer.  It&#8217;s worth a read.
&#8220;What&#8217;s the difference between a lead Producer and a Producer?&#8221;.
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		<link>http://theatrelawyer.com/2009/08/20/the-roles-of-producers-in-modern-theatre/</link>
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		<title>Entertainment Law Update Podcast &#8211; Episode 4:  The Pope &amp; The Little Mermaid turn it up to 11</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Episode 4 of my Entertainment Law Update podcast is now available.  Visit the site to subscribe using iTunes or your favorite RSS Reader.  Attorneys can get California MCLE (Continuing Legal Eduction) credit, too!
Download audio file (EntertainmentLawUpdateEpisode4.mp3)
Download Episode (right click)
Approximate Running Time: 1:14
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		<link>http://theatrelawyer.com/2009/08/12/entertainment-law-update-podcast-episode-4-the-pope-the-little-mermaid-turn-it-up-to-11/</link>
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		<title>Livent&#039;s Drabinsky and Gottlieb sentenced to Prison</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the 1990&#8217;s Garth Drabinsky&#8217;s LIVENT was the hottest commercial producing company on Broadway.  With hits like Ragtime! Show Boat, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Fosse!, the company and its founders were on top of the world.
It all came crashing down late in the decade, when it came to light that the company had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theatrelawyer.com/2009/08/10/livents-drabinsky-and-gottlieb-sentenced-to-prison/</link>
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		<title>Entertainment Law Update &#8211; Episode 3 &#8211; Bloggers, Journalism &amp; Defamation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Episode 3 of the  Entertainment Law Update podcast is now available at http://entertainmentlawupdate.com

Download audio file (EntertainmentLawUpdateEpisode3.mp3)
Download Episode (right click)
Approximate Running Time: 1:06

SHOW NOTES can be found at http://entertainmentlawupdate.com

In this episode:


MCLE Approval &#8211; California Approved Episode 1, pending on 2 and 3.  Once we&#8217;ve got 4 under our belt, we can apply to be approved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theatrelawyer.com/2009/07/14/entertainment-law-update-episode-3/</link>
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		<title>Producers beware!  Theatregoer sues over canned music and wins!</title>
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We&#8217;re definitely not in Kansas anymore!
A british theatregoer has prevailed in his lawsuit against a theatre that used recorded music in staging its production of &#8220;The Wizard of Oz&#8221;.
In a time of increasingly tight budgets, many theatre groups are opting for recorded musical accompaniment, in lieu of paying for an orchestra, conductor, and the additional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theatrelawyer.com/2009/07/10/producers-beware-theatregoer-sues-over-canned-music-and-wins/</link>
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		<title>Financing (small) commercial theater</title>
		<description><![CDATA[INTRODUCTION
Raising the financing for any theatrical production is a challenge, even in the best of times.  With the current economic climate (which I suspect will remaim the norm for some time), it&#8217;s even more difficult to convince investors to fund production of a stage production.
For every cloud, though, there is a silver lining.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theatrelawyer.com/2009/07/07/financing-small-commercial-theater/</link>
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		<title>Critic / Play-doctor John Lahr sues Elaine Stritch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Elaine Stritch opened her Tony award winning &#8220;Elaine Stritch At Liberty&#8221; in 2000, she did so with help from theatre critic and author John Lahr, best known for his essays, reviews and reportage at The New Yorker magazine.   Lahr received a &#8220;reconstructed by&#8221; credit in the Playbill for Stritch&#8217;s show when it opened on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theatrelawyer.com/2009/06/30/critic-play-doctor-john-lahr-sues-elaine-stritch/</link>
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		<title>Congratulations, Tony Award nominees and winners!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to the Broadway League, The American Theatre Wing, and  to all of our friends, clients and colleagues who were nominated and/or took home Tony Awards last night!
What a show.  Host Neil Patrick Harris was terrific, and the musical numbers were just right.
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		<link>http://theatrelawyer.com/2009/06/08/congratulations-tony-award-nominees-and-winners/</link>
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