O&M Co., the Broadway PR firm of Rick Miramontez working to promote Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's first musical, "Finding Neverland," resigned last week reportedly after clashing with Weinstein.

The New York Times reported that Weinstein was concerned that major magazines were not engaged by the show's PR staff to pen features on the production or its well-known actors, including Kelsey Grammer and Matthew Morrison. Weinstein told the Times that he asked Miramontez and his team "rudimentary questions" like "Who is the editor of GQ?" which they couldn't answer.

Miramontez said his team passed Weinstein's "bizarre pop quiz ... with flying colors." He said Weinstein was demanding cover stories, which was not likely.

Weinstein, who later tempered his criticism of Miramontez to the Times, later said the PR pro was doing a "bang up job" on another production, adding: "I'll be begging Rick to come back by tomorrow." 

Weinstein and O&M said in a statement that there are "no hard feelings on either side of the recent theatrics and we all move forward with one mutual desire - for 'Finding Neverland' to open on Broadway triumphantly."

The big-budget musical has been in development for two years.

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