Profile for kingjames2

thedrybandit said: "BoringBoredBoard40 said: "Les Water posted on his Instagram that Grief Camp is effectively dead as a result of this strike."

I'd say it's more dead as a result of the bad labor practices of the Atlantic and their refusal to negotiate per labor laws for the last year and a half."

100%. This is an egregiously shortsighted decision on the part of the Atlantic, and it never should have gotten to this point.

sinister teashop said: "Are these stagehands full time employees? And The Atlantic isn't offering them healthcare?"

Some are full time, some are part time. For point of comparison: actors, stage managers, designers, and musicians are all also essentially part time employees (hired on a per-show basis) and all receive healthcare and retirement benefits as part of their contracts.

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Hope both sides will resolve quickly in a way that benefits the industry, the Atlantic, and its workers.

IATSE'sfinal line is awfully funny, though,due to its irrelevance to this circumstance:

• SVOG helped institutions remain alive during the pandemic and is, obviously, fully depleted now. Nobody in the nonprofit world got rich off that.

I wouldn't be so sure. Thanks to SVOG and PPP, a whole lot of nonprofit theaters exited the pandemic with *tremendous* surpluses, many of whom used that money to reverse promised pay cuts from their artistic leadership. This article is specifically about the Broadway nonprofits, but the same was true for companies like the Atlantic as well.

https://broadwayjournal.com/broadway-nonprofit-coffers-swelled-during-shutdown-exclusive/

And it's important to remember these theaters laid off and furloughed their production staff first and hired them back last. They saw almost no benefit from either PPP or SVOG. 

 

Ken Billington should be on the list by now. Over 100 Broadway credits, including so many highs (the original Sweeney) and lows (The Red Shoes), yet his only Tony award came for Chicago. He’s one of the most influential designers still working today and has trained practically an entire new generation on his own. 

Alexander Lamar said: "Anybody know Hadestown’s weekly nut?"

Not sure of an exact number but definitely one of the lowest of the musicals. I’ve heard below 700. 

Including intermission, it was 2:47 at williamstown (six years ago), 2:45 in La Jolla, and there have been substantial changes since LJ. The read was not remotely close to 3 hours, and I would expect the final run time to be close to advertised. It’s obviously hard to predict this early. 

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: 

"Ohio will be lucky if it gets a Lincoln Center archival recording."

It was filmed by Lincoln Center last Thursday night.

I’m a designer with a tour out, and BlindButlerDeadMaid is 99% correct on all this. The one thing I will note is that (I think) the tours out on production contracts have no guarantee from the presenters- it’s much more like the broadway model. Producers get much more of an upside if it’s a hit but are on the hook for a lot more $ if it isn't (which is why even shows like Hadestown are out on a SET contract).

You can also see which tours are under which contracts by going to https://iatse.net/yellow-cards/. They list all the professional tours currently playing. 

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Broadway Flash said: "Isn’t that in front of the St James?"

YOU'RE RIGHT! Wrong side of the Shubert.

Which makes it even less probable that this is loading into a theatre."

99.99% of the time this is just an old label that didn’t get ripped off the road case, probably in this case from the Alliance run. Many out of town tryouts use NYC shops. 

BroadwaysBroad said: "kingjames2 said: "Just curious (as I am very familiar with the design for Hadestown) - could you elaborate on the mechanism or method by which you imagine AI would improve the design? Like if we say "AI could improve this," what do we actually mean by that?"

Hadestown is a beautiful show, unfortunately the lighting design is the weakest link. AI could have provided some fresh ideas and probably followed the music better.

Just curious (as I am very familiar with the design for Hadestown) - could you elaborate on the mechanism or method by which you imagine AI would improve the design? Like if we say "AI could improve this," what do we actually mean by that?