Community Theaters Kill 'Mockingbird' Productions After Lawsuit Threat
The show must not go on, Broadway producer Scott Rudin says. Rudin's lawyers claim his show, written by Aaron Sorkin, is the only one that can be performed near a major city.
For 11-year-old Olivia Mongelli, the bad news came during rehearsal.
"Everyone onstage was just in shock," the Ohio girl, cast as Scout in the dramatic production of the classic Harper Lee novel, told the New York Times. "I just sat there for a second and said, 'Is this a joke'?"
From Massachusetts to Utah, small community theater productions of "To Kill a Mockingbird" are being shut down under threat of a lawsuit by the producer of the.
