This is the most amazing thing - he insists, though he's sat down and been interviewed on camera by the cyberstalking videographer Jonathan Frank according to some video credits,
he never really heard of Jonathan Frank on Saturday Aug 3 this year except that I say he's been doing video work for Encores, very single Encores, since 2007, even through three Marketing Directors - and the very next day Sunday Aug, 4 , Jack has looked online and suddenly seen that Jonathan Frank is so important in the industry that no one dares ask a question for fear of offending him and maybe losing his business. (but he almost never heard of him the day before despite the huge controversy over his action in 2013).
From: Jack Viertel
Date: August 3, 2019 at 5:21:24 PM EDT
To: Skip Kennon
Skip,
I’ve been assured and reassured (as has Fred) that “Jen 96th” is not Jennifer Tepper. Personally I don’t know her very well, but I do know that she categorically denies that this is her, so if that is what you are referring to in early August of last year, that’s all the information I have.
As to Jonathan Frank, I don’t know him at all, although according to Fred he and/or his company does promotional work for Encores through the marketing department, which I have no reason to doubt. That’s not an area I get involved in. City Center’s marketing department is not just for Encores, it’s for everything that plays at the venue. They do things their own way, and I don’t have a say in their staffing or who they hire to freelance for them. I imagine that’s why I’ve never met this guy as far as I know, so I don’t know how I can help.
I hope the situation improves.
Love,
Jack
From: Jack Viertel
Date: August 4, 2019 at 3:07:46 PM EDT
To: Skip Kennon
Skip —
If you can reference some of those posts in a way in which it is verifiable that Jonathan Frank wrote them I will speak to the Marketing Director and show her examples. Since I have no faith that Jennifer Tepper wrote the ones Fred thinks she did, I would need some real proof that Jonathan Frank wrote the ones that Fred says he did. but if you can provide that, I’ll certainly do what I can.
I should point out that Jonathan Franks’s company, which I looked up, seems responsible for much of the video that is done promoting Broadway shows. I’m far from sure that City Center, which has nothing t do with Fred’s dispute with Jonathan Frank, will be willing to forego business, or say anything that might jeopardize that relationship with a reputable and popular vendor with whom they have no dispute relating to their own business. But I can certainly ask.
Love,
Jack
Feels like a senility defense in the making.