People should be a little careful what they write on the Internet. Parker Brothers might find your post most interesting. In your case you are pretty anonymous at least here, but many of us are pretty easy to trace.

A little Googling allows me to find over a dozen productions of some stage adaptation of the 1985 movie Clue in the last 5 years alone!

These productions range from high schools, colleges, and community theater groups to a few semi-professional and professional theater companies.

None of these mentions any kind of "Produced by special arrangement with..." credit for any copyright holder for Clue.

Our CT has decided "damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead" -- that is, they've decided that we will produce a stage adaptation of the 1985 movie Clue, as have so many other theater companies in the last 5 years.  Our auditions are at the beginning of August 2009, and our performances are October 14 thru 17, 2009.

The author credit we are printing for this show says:
Story by John Landis and Jonathan Lynn; Screenplay by Jonathan Lynn
We are specifically NOT mentioning any name for the author of our stage adaptation, at that person's request.

I'm very much looking forward to this show!

Originally posted by Aerofad So what about the people in this thread who have gotten permission? Any of you able to give information on how you went about getting it?

I asked someone from Town and Country Players in Buckingham, PA, but they were unable to provide any specific contact information for Paramount or for Hasbro / Parker Brothers, other that what I have already used.

No other CT that has done this work has "stepped up to the plate" here with such contact information, and this particular Discussion Board has been up for 2 or 3 years.

I'd love for that to happen.

No, I don't but you could just do your own verison and write it yourself. As long as you have proper legal speak, it might be ok

Our CT went ahead and produced it.  It was great.  It was fun for the cast, the crew, and the audience.  We wrote our own adaptation, if anyone needs one.

Our set was massively huge (even without a Dining Room or a Ballroom).

Mrs. Ho and Mr. Boddy wind up lying dead in the Study for MOST of the play, in full view of the audience, so you have to have very patient actors playing these corpses.

I could tell stories for ages about our production, which I personally enjoyed immensely.