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Smeghead 10:45 pm UTC 05/20/09 |
| In reply to: | Good Luck With Frankenstein! - steven_stuart 10:07 pm UTC 05/20/09 |
| I'm still confused as to why Jim passes all of his creative stuff on to a prat like you? > > He was banned. > > Oh dear. I think there is something unfair about Wordnix > being banned when Smeghead is allowed to publish crude > language like "lying cunt", "window licker" and "touch of > the downs" over and over again. Different rules are > applied to different posters. Yesterday, Pudding called me > a "sad cunt" but Wordnix only ever replied to me with > posts that were either supportive or that showed balanced > intellectual reason. I know that Smeghead has been banned > but he is back and Wordnix is not. Believe it or not, > despite her wild claims, it might even be unfair that > Susan is banned. I read an old post from JD that said > Susan was only guilty of "fan fantasy" and that it was the > people who attacked her that disrupted the board. And yet > those attackers are still here, now attacking others and > poor old pidunk is banned. > > > I just didn't want to post. That's the > > story. Again, thank you for your comments. > > That's okay. I admire your efforts. I love the way you > have designed your websites. > > > What happened > > with "Frankenstein" is that we wanted to do it in Perth > > with a theatre company but we had to get permission from > > Jim. I asked Jim and he told me to speak to some other > > people who told me to speak to some other people. I won't > > mention names because that would be rude to the people and > > Jim. In the end, they couldn't help us because the > > publishing problems were complicated? I don't know? > > Jim passed it on to someone I know. That's how I heard > about it (you asked me how I knew further down the > board). > She wanted to say yes because she liked both your concept > and your attitude. But she wasn't really in a position to > say yes (it's complicated but Jim isn't either), so she > sent it to one of the lawyers. After that I didn't hear > anything else. > > If the lawyer said no, you shouldn't give up. You can get > the rights if you fight for them. Even if Jim and the lady > I know aren't in a position to say yes, they can put > pressure on the lawyers and managers. Your concept is so > good that it's worth percevering with. > > Especially if it's going to be in Australia. That wouldn't > threaten BOOH The Musical in Germany or the UK. And even > if BOOH does tour Australia, the two shows are very > different. > > > Didn't > > Jim say there were problems with the publishing behind > > "Bikers of the Round Table"? > > Yes. Disney wanted to do it but withdrew when they found > out that Jim does not own the publishing rights. The > publishing rights were a condition for them getting > involved. Which is a different attitude than the BOOH The > Musical producers have. > > > So that was that. I still > > would like to do "Frankenstein" but I also think the > > theatre company should do "The Confidence Man" which is my > > favourite theatrical score of Jim and Ray, well, I think > > Ray proves that Sondheim isn't the only genius to have > > worked in the latter half of the 20th century > > entertainment. But Sondheim gets more attention. > > > > Anyway, best, and cheerio. > > > > Good luck. | |
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