Musical About Raygun with Proceeds Going to Women's Shelter Called Off After Breakdancer’s Lawyers Sue

Raygun put the brakes on a would-be musical about her life.

The Australian breakdancer — real name Rachael Gunn — who became a global viral sensation due to her questionable dancing skills recently put a stop to a musical using her name and likeness mere hours before it was set to premiere, the Associated Press reported.

Raygun: The Musical, fronted by comedian Stephanie Broadbridge, was cancelled after Gunn’s attorneys reached out to the comedy club where the show was set to take place, and threatened to take legal action if the performance went ahead as planned, according to the outlet.

Broadbridge shared on social media that Gunn’s attorneys informed her that the poster used for the show had been trademarked and she was not allowed to use it, the AP said.

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The comedian added that the attorneys said she would face legal action if she performed Gunn’s viral kangaroo dance because the Paris Olympian owns the rights to it.

Anthony Skinner, the show's promoter and owner of Darlinghurst’s iD Comedy Club, where the musical was set to be performed, said they intended to give all proceeds to a women's shelter.

In an update on Instagram regarding the show on Thursday, Dec. 19, Broadbridge shared a new poster removing any likeness to Gunn along with an updated title, Breaking: The Musical. A new tagline was also added that read, “A completely legal parody musical.”

At this summer’s Paris Olympics, Gunn managed to be one of the most talked about participants in the Summer Games despite losing all three of her competitions by a combined score of 54-0.

The backlash and criticism on social media was immediate, prompting Gunn, 37, to call out the behavior.

“It is really sad to hear those criticisms and I am very sorry for the backlash that the community has experienced,” Gunn previously told Australia 10 News. “But I can’t control how people react.”

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"It was really sad how much hate that it did evoke," Gunn said. "And a lot of the responses is also just due to people not being very familiar with breaking and the diversity of approaches in breaking. The energy and vitriol that people had was pretty alarming."

Gunn announced in November that she was retiring from breakdancing, but backtracked four days later, saying that her statement was taken out of context.

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“So I was talking, you know, on 2dayFM about how I’m not going to do certain competitions anymore, which didn’t seem like such a big deal because breaking is not going to be in the Olympics [at the 2028 L.A. Games] anyway,” Gunn said on the show, per the New York Post.

“I’m not retiring. You try and stop me. I’m not ever going to stop dancing. So if you hear that again, you know that it’s not the truth. You can’t retire from an art form. So that's why I’m never going to stop,” she said.

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