Tucker v. Forty-Five Twenty-Five, Inc.

SWANN, Judge.

This case, which stems from the observance of the Jewish Passover festival, can perhaps best be summarized in terms of the famous question found in the Passover Haggadah itself — “Wherein is this night different from all other nights?”1 For purposes of our legal analysis, this may be paraphrased to be: Wherein is a contract for the performance of a Passover Seder different from all other contracts?

Richard Tucker, internationally renowned opera singer and equally renowned cantor, was engaged by the defendant, ap-pellee, to conduct the 1964 Passover Seder 2 at the Eden Roc Hotel in…