Amy Winehouse
London’s Daily Telegraph has reported that Koda, the Danish copyright agency, has withdrawn permission for the Royal Danish Theater in Copenhagen to use Amy Winehouse’s music in Amy, a play about the late British singer that was to open Jan. 30 starring Johanne Louise Schmidt. “It is Amy Winehouse’s father who has thrown a spanner in the works,” Koda spokesman Nicolaj Hylten-Cavallius told Agence France-Presse. Koda had previously given its approval, but shortly after the play was announced in October, Mitch Winehouse told Yahoo! News that the play was “a load of rubbish” and a blatant money-making exercise. Artistic Director Emmet Feigenberg responded that “the performance won’t be any cash cow,” since it would be performed only about a dozen times in the theater’s 220-seat venue. Written in Danish by the 11-member ensemble Det Røde Rum (The Red Room), the play was to depict the “enormous pressure a sensationalist public put on a young superstar when her problems began,” according to press materials, using interviews, speeches, and letters as well as songs from the albums Frank and Back to Black.