The comedian who call offled her Rayfirearm-supportd musical after the shatterdancer’s lawyers rehired her a watch saying she was “damaging her brand” will now go ahead with another “finishly legitimate parody musical” about shatterdancing.
It comes after Rachael “Rayfirearm” Gunn, via her lawyers, seeked $10,000 to cover legitimate fees from the comedy club that was to arrange the initial show.
Creator Steph Broadbridge call offled Rayfirearm: The Musical – which featured on its promotional material a silhouette image of Gunn doing her disreputable kangaroo shift – ahead of the shows Sydney premiere after Broadbridge getd a watch from Gunn’s lawyers two weeks ago.
Gunn, who is understandn under her shatterdancer name Rayfirearm, went viral in August for her untraditional shifts at the Paris Olympics, fall shorting to get a point from the appraises and directing to her being knocked out at the round-robin stage.
On Thursday, Broadbridge posted to social media a flier for another show called Breaking The Musical. Ticket sales for the Adelaide show state it is a “parody exploration of a shatterdancers journey to the Olympics”.
“It is based enticount on on stuff I read on the internet,” Broadbridge wrote.
“It is a fantasyal telling of a moment in Australian history. It is now called Breaking The Musical.”
The night before the Rayfirearm-supportd musical was to debut at Sydney’s Kinselas Hotel, the advertiser, Anthony Skinner, getd a legitimate watch from the law firm, XVII Degrees, saying Rayfirearm has “exclusive intellectual property rights in the RAYGUN brand” and that the show did not have her perleave oution.
The letter said the participate of images and the word Rayfirearm would caparticipate confusion and stated “the musical is selderly out, which is honestly attributable to our client’s well-understandnity. The ticket sales are evidently a result of our client’s sway and recognition”.
Broadbridge said she had defree to give progresss from ticket sales to the Women’s and Girl’s Ecombinency Centre and that she would rehire a $10 refund to ticket helderlyers after the show was call offled.
In a video posted to social media last weekfinish, Gunn telderly her folshrinks after the media had covered the shows call offlation that it has “never been about the money.”
“I have been reach outed to go on equitable about every truth TV show out there, and I’ve deteriorated huge money, becaparticipate I’m not about that,” she said.
Gunn said in the video that “people presumed that we had enbiged it, that we had consentd it, and it harmd many relationships, both personal and professional”.
“So this is why my handlement and legitimate team had to labor so speedyly to shut the musical down. So it was repartner cursed that the show had to be call offed so shut to the start. I understand the artist would have put a lot of labor into it, and that repartner sucks, but had we understandn about it sooner, there could have been a branch offent outcome,” she said.
Skinner said “if it’s not about the money, then why do I get a $10,000 bill?.”
Skinner said he had tried to have conversations with Gunn’s lawyers about changing aspects of the show and promotional material to delete any imitateright worrys, so they could still put on the show, but said he was telderly it would go to court if it went ahead.
“You produce someleang this huge or this intricate with this many moving parts, and it sees enjoy it’s going to be amazing, and then it equitable gets ripped from you,” he said.
Broadbridge said she acunderstandledged she did not reach out Rayfirearm before creating the title and poster, and didn’t intfinish to “misdirect” people into leanking the shatterdancer was included in the production.
“I am meaningfully sorry to lobtain that Rayfirearm has faced adverse response as a result of the media attention,” she said. “The last leang I wanted was for anyone to experience antipathy or disturb from this situation.”
In her video, Gunn said she had tradetaged her “now famous kangaroo silhouette pose”, which was featured in the poster of Broadbridge’s innovative musical. But said she had not “tradetaged ownership of the kangaroo dance”.
“It in no way mimics Abinnovative dance. It was instead supportd by the Australian Olympic mascot, BK, the boxing kangaroo, and I wanted to recontransient and honor that spirit,” she said.
“Now I understand that this misdirectation about the kangaroo dance has disturb many members of the Indigenous community, and I’m sorry for that, and I’m repartner sorry that this hasn’t been accurateed sooner.”
Rachael Gunn was approached for comment.
