The fake play about Kathleen Battle’s Met dismissal

The fake play about Kathleen Battle’s Met dismissal

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norman lebrecht

April 27, 2017

Broadway producer Roland Scahill has admitting in court to scamming nine of $200,000 to fund a non-extsitent play about the Met’s firing of soprano Kathleen Battle.

If he pays back the money, he will only do six months jail time.

Court report here.

Comments

  • Joel Lazar says:

    Sounds like the plot-line for “The Producers”, in a way! So it’s a meta-scam?

  • Robert Holmén says:

    “If he pays back the money, he will only do six months jail time.”

    I wonder what the time limit is on that and what the jail time for non-payback is.

    If he was desperate enough to scam his friends the money is probably long gone, to address some other financial malady.

  • Brian B says:

    You’d have to be a gull, a total dupe, to fall for something like this. A second’s reflection would show such a play would be legally actionable by Ms. Battle, even in this country.

  • Walter Winterfeldt says:

    Just send him to Battle’s house to be her housekeeper for the next 3 years

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