Opening arguments were made this morning in the jury trial pitting publicist Marc Thibodeau against producers Ben Sprecher and Louise Florenza, whose unrequited attempts to mount a musical based on the 1938 Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca have transfixed Broadway since the production fell apart in 2012. At issue in the New York State Supreme Court trial is whether the defendant Thibodeau, a veteran p.r. agent who has…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:31PM on April 24, 2017