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Waco Performing Arts Company files suit against ‘Greater Tuna’ organizers

By Carl Hoover | Friday, March 20, 2009, 06:13 PM

The Waco Performing Arts Company filed suit Friday against the Greater Tuna Corporation, its agent Roland Scahill, the Gersh Agency and William Morris Agency for damages stemming from the three cancellations of the Greater Tuna play “Tuna Does Vegas” this season.

The suit, filed in 170th State District Court, charges breach of contract, two counts of negligent or fraudulent misrepresentation and violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.

No dollar amount was cited for the damages alleged, but Waco Performing Arts Company Executive Director Scott Baker estimated the financial loss to the Waco Hippodrome Theatre, which the WPAC manages, due to the three cancellations was “hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

The legal action followed the WPAC’s cancellation of the April 17-19 performances of “Tuna Does Vegas” on Wednesday due to an apparent double-booking of the comedy at the La Mirada Theater in La Mirada, Calif.

The April dates, in turn, had been rescheduled after a cancellation of the show in January. That January run of “Tuna Does Vegas,” in turn, had been rescheduled from an original Sept. 12-14 run of the two-man show, which was scratched in the aftermath of Hurricane Gustav.