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Quote rtpgurl Replybullet Posted: 1/04/09 at 11:05pm
How did you go about getting the rights?
I know we'd love to do it at our theatre sometime within the near future.
 
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Quote VPHicksville Replybullet Posted: 1/06/09 at 6:19pm

Who did you contact to get the rights?  Sorry, I've been busy and haven't been able to respond to you.  Our group liked the production over all...there were things we would have done differently, but every director is different.

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Quote Goldberry Replybullet Posted: 1/07/09 at 12:56pm
Our director was crap, and he likes to change every script's lines to his whim, which is a HUGE liability.
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Quote rtpgurl Replybullet Posted: 1/07/09 at 3:01pm
A fellow in my theatre group gave me a number to a contact within the realm of Paramount out in California.
It led me to a nice gent in their licensing department who told me that, unfortunately, they do not have the play rights.
When they got the rights to do the movie, they did not acquire the rights to the stage version.
He told me the best thing to do would be to contact Parker Brothers about play rights, since that is who Paramount got their orginial rights from to do the movie.
Apparently, they get a LOT of questions about the stage version of CLUE.
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Quote Nyria Replybullet Posted: 1/13/09 at 1:27am
I just read a play that I quite liked called "The Murderous Mansion of Mr. Uno"  Which reminded me a lot of the movie Clue -- it's kind of a spoof on the movie (and the movie was rather spoofy itself ;))
You can read some of it here:
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Quote rtpgurl Replybullet Posted: 1/13/09 at 9:56am
Thank you!
I'm going to actually get this play to read.
It sound wicked cool.Smile
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Quote donzolidis Replybullet Posted: 1/13/09 at 11:34pm
Why yes it is wicked cool.
 
Here's the issue as I see it with this play, and I'd like to put this up to the community. I wrote it as a one-act for a group of kids who were indeed parodying Clue, and it ended up landing in a kind of in-between length--right now the show runs something like 50 minutes, and there are up to 11 separate endings that could be voted on by the audience that would extend the show.
 
So here's my question: Would it be worth my while to revisit the play, extend it to, say, 90 minutes, so that with the alternate endings it would be a true full-length show? Do you think that would coax more community theatres to produce it? (and it's not as if the show isn't ever produced, it probably gets 10 productions a year or so, but it's mostly done by schools)
 
I'll make this offer. If a community theater out there goes ahead and buys the rights to perform the show from Playscripts, I will write you a new version of this play that works out to a full-length. You can use the new version for your production and only pay the cost of a one-act performance (right now the play is $40 a performance, which is a pretty good deal). The deal is good until Playscripts publishes the new, full-length version of the show.
 
Anyone interested?
 
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Quote rtpgurl Replybullet Posted: 1/14/09 at 7:15pm
LOL!
Wow, I totally just emailed you about the show.
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I was wondering how the show could be extended so that it stretched more than 60 minutes, and if that 60 minute interval included an intermission  and the time it took to vote and whatnot...
I do like the idea of extending the show and making it to around 90 minutes.
 
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Quote Nyria Replybullet Posted: 1/14/09 at 11:31pm
I've been thinking about doing this - I just need to find enough guys ;)
I am also curious how it would be stretched.
 
I love the audience involvement too.
My thought for performing it would be to have the cast rehearse the 3 or 4 endings we liked the best and then just put those possble endings into the voting.  So, we would hand out the vote cards to the audience and it would say to vote for "Terragon, Uno, Daphne or Isis'" for example.  That way they wouldn't have to memorize all 11 endings =)
Then we would perorm all 4 endings with the voted one being last. 
 
My mom is the president of a community theatre here in town - I am going to ask her what she thinks of this idea. 
I'm a big Don Zolidis fan -- we've done his plays the last 2 years at festival (Bobby Wilson can eat his own Face" and "Feed the Whales"
 
 
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Quote rtpgurl Replybullet Posted: 1/19/09 at 12:57am
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Why yes it is wicked cool.
 
Here's the issue as I see it with this play, and I'd like to put this up to the community. I wrote it as a one-act for a group of kids who were indeed parodying Clue, and it ended up landing in a kind of in-between length--right now the show runs something like 50 minutes, and there are up to 11 separate endings that could be voted on by the audience that would extend the show.
 
So here's my question: Would it be worth my while to revisit the play, extend it to, say, 90 minutes, so that with the alternate endings it would be a true full-length show? Do you think that would coax more community theatres to produce it? (and it's not as if the show isn't ever produced, it probably gets 10 productions a year or so, but it's mostly done by schools)
 
I'll make this offer. If a community theater out there goes ahead and buys the rights to perform the show from Playscripts, I will write you a new version of this play that works out to a full-length. You can use the new version for your production and only pay the cost of a one-act performance (right now the play is $40 a performance, which is a pretty good deal). The deal is good until Playscripts publishes the new, full-length version of the show.
 
Anyone interested?
 
Don
 
We might just take you up on that offer. Smile
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