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Fleetwood Mac Producer Sues Over ‘Stereophonic,’ Says Broadway Hit Copied His ‘Rumours’ Memoir

A Fleetwood Mac producer sued the creators of the Broadway hit "Stereophonic," claiming they stole material from his memoir "Making Rumours."

In a lawsuit filed Tuesday (Oct. 2) in Manhattan federal court, Ken Caillat and co-author Steven Stiefel call the Tony Award-winning show an “unauthorized adaptation” of their 2012 book Making Rumours — and accuse playwright David Adjmi of “flagrant and willful infringement.” Critics quickly noted the similarities to the infamous story of the recording session for Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, which featured high tensions and heavy drug usage. In their lawsuit, Caillat and Stiefel say the hit play “presents a nearly identical story arc as Making Rumours,” told from the same perspective of a sound engineer in a recording studio, about five characters who are “undeniably analogous to the members of Fleetwood Mac.”

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