A truce in ‘Margaritaville’
Lawyers for Jimmy Buffett and Ypsilanti playwright Barton Bund have reached a truce in the battle of “Margaritaville.” Bund’s play “Margaritaville” — set in Key West, it’s a comedy about same-sex marriage — can keep its title through Saturday, when its run ends at the Blackbird Theatre in Ann Arbor. Any subsequent production, revision or sequel will carry a different name — perhaps “Tequilaville,” Bund said Monday. Although reluctant to make any changes, Bund wants to avoid legal proceedings “that might go on for weeks after the show had closed.” Bund’s nonprofit theater company, performing in a 100-seat house, would be up against Buffett’s multi-million-dollar corporate interests. “They have the resources to win,” Bund says, but there is a silver lining: Publicity about the matter “has been good for business.”
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