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CU Boulder Pays Shakespeare Performers Despite Cancellation

BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4)- The University of Colorado in Boulder will have to pay the Colorado Shakespeare Festival even though there won't be any performances.

CU Athletics agreed to pay the festival $150,000 over a scheduling conflict.

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CU was forced to cancel a performance of Love's Labour Lost because the university double-booked a Dead and Company concert for the same night in July at Folsom Field.

According to the Daily Camera, the same thing happened in 2016.

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