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It's not against union rules.  The 9th show is paid at double-time, unless the previous/following week has only 7 performances (remembering that the Broadway "week" is Monday-Sunday), in which case it's just paid at the regular rate or an additional 1/8 of salary.  

And yes, in most cases everyone in the company DOES do all 9 shows.  We don't like it, but it happens.  

muscle23ftl said: "I have some advice:

you can go to the box office and get a $54 ticket "partial view", those are perfectly fine, but my real advice is to skip it, I have seen better drag shows for free at gay bars."

Could you tell us where those gay bars are?  I'd be amazed to see free drag shows that are even better than "Oh, Mary".  

They don't have a 9-show week at the time you specified.  Broadway weeks run from Mon-Sun (not Sun-Sat), and Mondays are usually dark. 

William Finn's Romance in Hard Times still haunts me after seeing it at The Public back in the 90s.  

berniesb!tch said: "Mother Play. Such a misfire for me on almost all levels. I couldn’t believe the actors read the script and said yes."

Oh, lort, I'd already blocked this from my mind.  SO disappointing.  Like a 90s Hallmark TV Movie, with added bits from the 1996 dancing-cockroach movie Joe's Apartment for some reason. 

Matlby and Shire's "Big" was... depressing.  My friend left at intermission, while I unwisely stayed only to be confronted with not one, but TWO dream ballets (one on skateboards).  I'd been obsessed with their music for ages, but this score was terrible. 

I left humming the sets. 

In Jagged Little Pill, two people interrupt the singer of "Ironic"...

"Hold up... Wait a second! That's actually not ironic!"

"Right? If we're using irony as defined in Greek tragedy, I don't see how, like, a fly in your beverage applies."

"That's not irony... that's just like... shi**y." 

My brain read this as "Naked Boys Singing has clothed." 

There is currently a non-equity tour out now, and the base pay for the ensemble is what I used to get for doing non-equity tours... THIRTY YEARS AGO.  It used to be that those tours were the only place that young performers could be paid well and gain valuable experience, but it seems things have changed and producers are taking advantage of them.  

Is it possible to block someone here so you don't have to see their posts?

Just curious. 

"Oh, Elton John... must we continue this charade?"

-Man in Chair (and I concur)

ACL2006 said: "American Idiot, Bandstand, the 2006 Company revival."

American Idiot was critically acclaimed and ran over a year.  Hardly a flop. 

I saw it this week and it's still haunting me.  I don't understand the negative reactions here... I wasn't familiar with the play, so perhaps that made a difference.  Now that I've researched the history of other productions, I'm even more impressed.  First-time director Jeff Ward has a big future and I look forward to his directing career. 

VERY big spoiler:

Where will they insert the tap challenge?  Will it be in "A Little Priest" or "By The Sea"? 

Matt Koplik's podcast, Broadway Breakdown, is delightful.  He and his guests are like those people at a party that you wish you'd started a conversation with. 

CDs?????? Who the heck uses that outdated format?

I'll stick with my vinyl, thank you.