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MAKAROVA v. SILVERSTEIN

295 A.D.2d 191 (2002)

744 N.Y.S.2d 365

NATALIA MAKAROVA et al., Respondents, v. LEONARD L. SILVERSTEIN, as Personal Representative of the Estate of ROGER L. STEVENS, Deceased, et al., Appellants, et al., Defendant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided June 17, 2002.

It is undisputed that Sander Gossard, using a design provided by the production's scenic designer Zack Brown, built a fabric scenery backdrop for the Kennedy Center's 1982 production of the musical "On Your Toes." On December 18, 1982, while plaintiff Natalia Makarova, a world renowned prima ballerina, was performing onstage, the backdrop, an approximately 30 by 45 foot sheet of muslin with a continuous piece of pipe sewn in the bottom, tore and fell, bounced off the stage...

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