MEMORANDUM OPINION
SMALKIN, District Judge.
This is a diversity breach of contract case, in which the plaintiff, producer of a road show production of Tennessee Williams' play The Night of the Iguana, demanded judgment for $12,000, plus interests and costs, in the ad damnum clause of his complaint. The substantive complaint paragraphs relevant to damages read as follows:
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