Sellars Loses Job As Director After Dispute With Producers

Peter Sellers '80, who last week won a prestigious prize Fellowship, was found as director of a Broadway-bound musical Tuesday, just four days before his show was due to opens.

Lewis Allen, the supervising producer of "My One and Only," announced this that he was replacing Sellers with the show's choreographer. Tommy Tune, who recently directed the Broadway hit "Nine."

The dismissal will not affect Sellers $27,200-a-year, five-year grant, offered annually with "no strings attached" to 20 talented individuals by the MacArthur Foundation.

"We gave the fellowship because of the extraordinary promise shown by Peter Sellars." Kennith W. Hape, winning director of the Prize Fellowship, explained yesterday, "not because he is attached to a particular production company."

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The show's publicity agents refused to comment on why Sellers was fired. Sellers cited "artistic differences" between the producers and him in an interview with The Boston Globe earlier this week.

But Daniel A. Sherkow of Paramount Theater said yesterday that Sellars had "a rather parochial way of looking at the show. We took certain liberties that be regarded as Vegas-style embellishments."