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Lombardo Sues Valerie Harper Over Brain Cancer by BroadwayWorld

In 2013, Looped opened on Broadway. Looped was written by Matthew Lombardo and was originally supposed to star Valerie Harper. However, during rehearsals, Harper started slurring her speech and forgetting her lines. When she went to the doctors, they discovered that her lung cancer had spread to her brain. Lombardo was forced to replace Harper last minute, which he claims cost him 500,000. According to TMZ, Lomb…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:49AM on April 27, 2014

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