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Quote wickedone Replybullet Topic: Clue the play
    Posted: 10/10/06 at 2:41pm
Does anyone know who owns rights to "Clue" the play?

I found info on the musical, but we really would rather have a straight show this summer.

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Quote Topper Replybullet Posted: 10/10/06 at 4:43pm
Although "Clue" was released as a film in 1985, it was an adaptation written expressly for the screen (with three alternate endings!).  To my knowledge, no stage version exists -- except the musical.
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Quote wickedone Replybullet Posted: 10/12/06 at 5:30pm
Thanks for your efforts. 

I was really hoping to find a script.  There is a theatre in CA that did it and I've emailed them, but no reply yet.

Honestly, the screenplay will be too hard for us to adapt. 

In the meantime, if anyone knows, I'll be checking!

Thanks for your help!
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Quote AmateurThespian Replybullet Posted: 10/22/06 at 6:00pm

If that is the same theater that I know of, I wrote to them to ask if that was a show they licensed. It is not. They are a "pirate" theater company. The guy even told me so. He said if he sent me the script I could not say where I got it. They do a lot of shows that are based on movies and TV. Total lack of imagination.

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Quote suzecue1 Replybullet Posted: 10/22/06 at 8:46pm

A CT near me did Clue a couple of years ago.

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Quote lwood Replybullet Posted: 2/25/07 at 1:13pm

The group in California didn't have the rights. My group tried to get the rights by emailing Jonathan Lynn (he wrote the movie) who told us to try paramount pictures, who, after about an hour of voice menus told us we had to email our request, which we did and never got a response to. fun times. i'd look for another show.

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Quote VPHicksville Replybullet Posted: 9/30/07 at 8:45pm
We orignally heard about the group in California that did the production, but then our group traveled to a little town outside of Philedelphia, PA to see a production of "Clue: The Play" after finding it by chance on Brown Paper Tickets.  The Philly group told us that they contacted Paramount and Hasbro and there were no royalties to do the show.
 
We've been in contact with Hasbro and Paramount and no one is claiming that they have the stage rights or know who does.  We have come against the same wall to do the show.  If we get anywhere with this, I'll let you know.
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Quote TheActingTechie Replybullet Posted: 10/28/07 at 1:12am
If you can't get the rights to "Clue," you could probably find something else in the same vain.

"The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940" (not a musical) is a popular choice.
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Quote Goldberry Replybullet Posted: 11/03/08 at 10:33pm
Originally posted by VPHicksville

We orignally heard about the group in California that did the production, but then our group traveled to a little town outside of Philedelphia, PA to see a production of "Clue: The Play" after finding it by chance on Brown Paper Tickets.  The Philly group told us that they contacted Paramount and Hasbro and there were no royalties to do the show.
 
We've been in contact with Hasbro and Paramount and no one is claiming that they have the stage rights or know who does.  We have come against the same wall to do the show.  If we get anywhere with this, I'll let you know.
 
I'm the person who got the rights for that theater company. It's Town and Country Players in Buckingham, PA. The show wound up being directed by a guy who ruined the show, but yeah...we did it.
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