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Article: Curtains? Jerry Springer opera may face closure over defamation suit
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- October 26, 2004
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JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
10-26-2004
Dateline: LONDON
Defamation suits, bad press, feuding producers _ "Jerry Springer: The Opera" has spawned a behind-the-scenes soap opera to match its onstage melodramatics.
The scabrous musical inspired by the king of trash TV is facing early closure because of an expensive lawsuit against a British newspaper that claimed _ untruthfully, at the time _ that it was losing money.
A huge critical hit, "Jerry Springer" is due to run until in London's West End until Oct. 2005, with a Broadway production scheduled to open next fall. But producers acknowledge that the mounting cost of a lawsuit against the Daily Mail newspaper could ...