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stop clause
noun
- a clause by which a contract or other agreement may be terminated, especially between theatrical producers and theater owners in whose agreements it is often stipulated that when weekly receipts fall below a certain minimum usually for two consecutive weeks, the production must vacate the theater.
Example Sentences
In setting a deadline for the musical to leave the theater, the Shubert Organization is invoking a 鈥渟top clause鈥 that allows it to oust a show whose grosses fall below an agreed upon level for two weeks in a row.
The Shubert Organization notified 鈥淏eetlejuice鈥 in June 鈥 after the Tony Awards 鈥 that it had hit the stop clause.
The show brought in $818,904 in its first full week after opening, which was below its stop clause.
鈥淭o give an Author to a text,鈥 he writes, 鈥渋s to impose upon that text a stop clause, to furnish it with a final signification, to close the writing.鈥
Those two factors led the musical鈥檚 landlord, Jujamcyn Theaters, to threaten to invoke the so-called stop clause in the rental agreement for 鈥淪ide Show,鈥 according to executives involved with the show.
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