[Whedonesque] Dushku quits Dog Sees God.

[David]

Eliza and three others quit the play.

Link To Original Article (http://www.whedonesque.com/?comments=9584)

[nerd4hire]

I love a good muck-raking rumour from a rag. It's worth quoting.

The casting couch of the sexually predatory producer is a dirty secret that has been part of Hollywood and Broadway since the first actors trod the boards. But, like any great headlining play, the newest sex scandal to hit America's acting profession has a fresh twist: the top producer accused of sexually harassing the cast of a Broadway play is a woman.

Her alleged victims are also far from being wide-eyed starlets. Instead they are some of the top names on Broadway, including Irish actor Gabriel Byrne.

Dede Harris, one of the most famous producers in New York, has been landed with a multi-million-dollar lawsuit after half the cast of her latest play walked out.

Harris, the award-winning producer of such previous hits as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Hairspray, has been sued for $5m by the partners of her venture Dog Sees God, a satire on the Charlie Brown comic strip Peanuts. Legal papers filed with a Manhattan court claim her conduct has resulted in cast members leaving the show.

The lawsuit claims Harris is 'sexually obsessive and compulsive and is unable to refrain from sexually harassing cast members of productions with which she is affiliated'. It alleges that Harris asked one female cast member to 'feel her up', groped another's breast in a bar and made sexual advances on several other men and women. It describes a game of 'truth of dare' played with the cast in which Harris asked some of the male actors to touch her.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1712956,00.html

[Randy Giles]

I thought that was supposed to be a movie, lol.

[I love Eliza Dushku]

Hopefully now she will be in some movies or another tv show. I am suffering from Eliza withdrawal.