Interesting article, but not sure why this is just being talked about now, when it's been happening for decades, especially at the big musical houses around the country - we have four here in LA and environs who do it all the time, then win awards for copying the work of others. Sometimes they actually have purchased the sets from the tours rather than being creative and doing their own thing - and they wholesale recreate the staging and choreography of other productions without giving the original creators credit. That's my big problem, the chutzpah and the lack of credit. It's why they don't hire me to direct anything - I think they know I would never ape any other production in that kind of wholesale way.
