Fleetwood Mac producer sues Tony Award-winning Broadway play that Brad Pitt owns the film rights to

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Stereophonic,” this year’s Tony Award winner for Best Play, and its landlord, the Shubert Organization, are being sued by writers Steven Stiefel and Ken Caillat, the Fleetwood Mac sound engineer/producer, who claim the popular show ripped off their 2012 book, “Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album.”The pissed-off pair filed their lawsuit on Oct.

1 in Manhattan federal court. Why the Mac attack?Playwright David Adjmi’s “Stereophonic,” you see, is about a fictional 1970s rock band made up of three men and two women — three Brits, two Americans — angstily recording their second album in a Sausalito, Calif., studio, as told from the perspective of a young sound engineer.Nonfictional “Making Rumours,” meanwhile, is about Fleetwood Mac — Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, Lindsey Buckingham, John McVie and Christine McVie; three Brits, two Americans — angstily recording their second album, “Rumours,” in a Sausalito, Calif., studio, as told from the perspective of a young sound engineer.I just got a rush of déjà vu.Caillat, joined by a New Yorker reporter, attended a performance of “Stereophonic” in September and saw his reflection on the wood-covered stage.“Now I feel ripped off!” he exclaimed to the mag.The Post has reached out to reps of Adjmi for comment.The sound-engineer-turned-producer’s beef isn’t that the characters are obviously stand-ins for Fleetwood Mac members — despite Adjmi’s assertions to the contrary — but that the play’s format and scenes bear a striking resemblance to “Making Rumours.”The show “copies the heart and soul” of the book, the detailed complaint says.