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- Creator
- Bennett, Michael, 1943-1987
- Call number
- *T-Mss 1997-024
- Physical description
- .5 linear feet (1 box)
- Preferred Citation
- Legal papers regarding a chorus line, Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Billy Rose Theatre Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Michael Bennett, director and choreographer, conceived, choreographed and directed the enormously successful Broadway musical, A CHORUS LINE. The collection concerns "the matter of Michael Bennett," preliminary hearings in an unsuccessful plagiarism suit against him for A CHORUS LINE. It consists of transcripts of sworn testimony of Bennett, Cy Coleman and James Lipton and photocopies of A CHORUS LINE correspondence and calendars assembled for Bennett's lawyers.
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Papers: Transfer, NY Shakespeare Festival/Joe Papp Archives, 08/07/97Key terms
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Billy Rose Theatre DivisionNew York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Third Floor