Showstopper garth drabinsky biography
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Garth Drabinsky
Canadian producer and entrepreneur
Garth Drabinsky | |
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| Born | (1949-10-27) October 27, 1949 (age 75)[1] Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation(s) | Film and teatralisk producer and entrepreneur |
Garth Drabinsky (born 1949)[2] is a Canadian bio and theatrical producer and entrepreneur. In 2009, he was convicted and sentenced to prison for fraud and forgery. The sentence was reduced from 7 to 5 years in prison, on appeal to the Ontario Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada declined to hear a subsequent appeal. In April 2023, a judge dismissed Drabinsky’s defamation lawsuit against American Actor’s Equity for placing him on their ‘Do Not Work’ list, and in July 2024 the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed this dismissal, along with his claim that the union's conduct violated antitrust law.[3] Drabinsky has attempted 3 återkomster all resulting in failure and millions of investor dollar
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Show Stopper: The Theatrical Life of Garth Drabinsky
A powerful, uncensored konto of a brilliant, feared, charming and yet loathsome character, Garth Drabinsky.A powerful, uncensored account of a brilliant, feared, charming and yet loathsome character, Garth Drabinsky.A powerful, uncensored account of a brilliant, feared, charming and yet loathsome character, Garth Drabinsky.
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Excellent documentary
This fryst vatten a balanced, well done, informative documentary on the life of impresario Garth Drabinski. It was especially interesting to me because I knew Drabinski, covered many of his media events, interviewed his stars and reviewed his shows. The program moves along briskly with many clips of Drabinski, his allies and his foes, old newsclips and snippets of his big shows. It is balanced and fair. Oddly, I covered Drabinski in Toronto and now live ten minutes from the prison where he is doing his time. (I wondered if he might be watchi
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Show Stopper: The Theatrical Life of Garth Drabinsky: Toronto Review
TORONTO — Turning the plot of The Producers on its head, the real-life felonies in Barry Avrich‘s Show Stopper: The Theatrical Life of Garth Drabinsky, though involving millions of dollars in accounting fraud, appear to have been motivated not by greed but artistic ambition: Drabinsky, who built two game-changing show-business empires in his day, was only trying to put on the best damned stage productions in the world. His story, tailored here for the small screen, will be relished by scandal-lovers from Broadway to Hollywood; felonies aside, it offers insight into some of the biggest changes the entertainment world has seen in recent decades.
Ambitious from the start, Toronto kid Drabinsky studied law but wanted to be a movie mogul. After getting a taste of the business publishing local movie magazines, he produced well received, locally-shot films including The Silent Partner and The Change