Former Fleetwood Mac Producer Settles Lawsuit With ‘Stereophonic’ Producers

Producers of the Broadway hit Stereophonic have settled a lawsuit brought by a former sound engineer and producer of Fleetwood Mac who claimed the production used material from his memoir without authorization, specifically in the play’s depiction of a Mac-like 1970s rock band recording a Rumours-like album.

In a one-page joint motion filed today in United States Southern District Court of New York, the two sides indicated that they had resolved the dispute “in principle” and would have a finalized written settlement before the end of the month.

Terms of the settlement have not been disclosed.

The suit was filed in October by former Fleetwood Mac producer Ken Caillat and Steven Stiefel, Caillat’s co-author on the 2012 memoir Making Rumours, alleging that Stereophonic playwright David Adjmi had based certain incidents in the play on material from the memoir.

Adjmi has long insisted that while the Tony-winning Stereophonic was partially inspired by Fleetwood Mac’s famous history, it is a work of fiction. The playwright told The New Yorker in September prior to the lawsuit filing that Making Rumours is an “excellent book” but that any similarities between Stereophonic and Making Rumours are unintentional.

Today’s court filing lists Caillat and Stiefel as plaintiffs and, as defendants, Stereophonic producers Seaview Productions, Sonia Friedman Productions, Linden Productions, Playwrights Horizons, The Shubert Organization, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Ashley Melone and Nick Mills.