Chances of a Strike? Oct 13
2025, 02:02:23 PM
domdomdomdom said: "Surely the Entertainment Community Fund, especially after record-breaking fundraising by Broadway and touring casts this past year, has something set up for the actors and musicians if this strike happens?"
Maybe they do or not (not sure either way.) But, understand that if a strike is called by either union, it impacts more than just the actors or musicians. There are other unions/people impacted as well.
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Chances of a Strike? Oct 13
2025, 12:50:53 PM
ACL2006 said: "Islander_fan said: "Part of me feels like between the actors and musicians that we may be dealing with a strike from one side or another. Though, since I have skin in the game, while I don’t wanna have to deal with a strike from either union, I am not optimistic that a strike from either of the two unions won’t occur."
Considering the current economy, I'd think all sides would want to trike a deal to avoid a work stoppage.<
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Renée Goldsberry Doc Oct 13
2025, 10:40:49 AM
spicemonkey said: "Is her name big enough to have a documentary produced. Super confused."
Someone must have thought so. I mean, it was able to find a distributor post film festival run. Lots of, if not all films that premier at a film festival use that as a platform to find a distribution company that wants to produce a given film. Though, I do think that since it covers her time with Hamilton (along with her winning the Tony) it can get people at least curiou
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Chances of a Strike? Oct 13
2025, 10:36:34 AM
Part of me feels like between the actors and musicians that we may be dealing with a strike from one side or another. Though, since I have skin in the game, while I don’t wanna have to deal with a strike from either union, I am not optimistic that a strike from either of the two unions won’t occur.
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Renée Goldsberry Doc Oct 13
2025, 10:20:28 AM
I saw it last year when it premiered at The Beacon as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. While yes, Goldsberry is the subject of the documentary. And, while her story is interesting, it also does a fantastic job of pulling back the curtain and showing how hard it can be for a performer to balance work and life. Upon reflection, I feel that, while people may get that the work life balance is hard for someone on Broadway, the documentary shows that it may be more of a challenge to balance than
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ART - Week-Long Break? Sep 17
2025, 04:18:26 PM
Jay Lerner-Z said: "P.S. By "regular" actor, I mean an actor who earns their living from acting. Not megarich celebrities."
How do you think the “mega rich celebrities earn their money? They do it via acting.
Also, if a show has well known actors in it, the producers may chose to have the theatre dark for a little bit than have to refund or exchange tickets. They would loose more money if they did it that wa. Rather than, of course having an un
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ART - Week-Long Break? Sep 17
2025, 03:51:58 PM
Jay Lerner-Z said: "I really irk you two, don't I?
Leave me alone."
Jay, first off, the act of an actor on Broadway taking a couple of days off to film a movie or tv show in town is something that routinely happens. It’s no big deal since it is a common occurrence. So yes, it does happen. And, if it’s known ahead of time, the production will post the dates of who’s out and for how long.
I politely say that y
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Next To Normal PBS May 14
2025, 08:30:33 AM
It’s PBS that we’re talking about. That being the case, I a was not surprised by the editing out any swearing. To me, not only was I happy that I was able to see it. And, it was very very enjoyable to me and as such, the minor censoring of some of the language was not bothersome one bit.
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Cast Recording Updates? Apr 4
2025, 08:13:04 AM
bryan32 said: "how about these shows any updates on the fantastic, the nutty professor, death note, the Jerusalem syndrome, maybe happy ending, boop Romeo and Bernadette on cd's"
Maybe Happy Ending’s cast album CD release date is Friday May 16th with vinyl coming out a little bit after that.
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Trump Wants to Host Awards, include businessmen and politicians as winners Mar 27
2025, 08:43:08 PM
I found this article from Forbes about the cancellation of Finn. The article states that the show could have been interrupted as having LGBT themes according to the creators.
Forbes article about Finn The Musical
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Country is Changing Mar 18
2025, 12:11:26 AM
ivy3 said: "The Distinctive Baritone said: "BroadwayRox3588 said: "ACL2006 said: "how would anyone know Kolton is non-binary just by watching the show?"
This part, tho."
Based on show photos and their Instagram page, Kolton presents as female both in the production and off-stage, and I imagine that most audience members - except perhaps for those in the first few rows - would just assume they are a
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Donald Trump Takes Over the Kennedy Center Mar 11
2025, 02:14:58 AM
Is it too late at this point for any current Broadway tour slated to play The Kennedy Center this season to back out of their engagement? I mean, I know Hamilton did. But, they weren’t scheduled to play there till next season.
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STRANGER THINGS to transfer to Broadway's Marquis Theatre in spring 2025 Feb 7
2025, 09:58:09 AM
ACL2006 said: "iluvtheatertrash said: "iluvtheatertrash said: "qafgenius122 said: "4th in line at 5:40am.I clearly could have slept in. Luckily it’s not too cold, for February. Oh well, least I’ll get that hat lol"
Could you let us know what it’s looking like now? I have rheumatoid and really not sure I can be out there any earlier than 9 without putting my body in pain."
Wound up coming earlier an
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re: Have you ever forgotten to turn your cell phone off during a broadway s Feb 5
2025, 07:20:52 AM
This isn’t me directly, but, something I did witness while working a performance of Pretty Woman one Wednesday afternoon. Apple had previously announced that it was scheduling an emergency alert test for that same day at 2PM. Now, we all knew that the emergency alert sound bypasses any sort of silence settings on your iPhone and we also knew that not only would it be very loud, but, there would be countless patrons who didn’t turn their phones off and have it go
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TodayTix Pricing Dec 23
2024, 08:04:02 AM
Put me in the camp of those who only use TodayTix for lotteries and rush only. And, their customer service is atrocious. Around the time Broadway was reopening from the shutdown, I had bought a ticket through them. Well, turned out I had Covid and as such they simply didn’t care. They never gave me a refund or even credit (something that they sometimes do) or were helpful in any way.
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Fall openings trend? Coincidence or theatre owner coercion? Dec 15
2024, 12:06:07 PM
The thing about The Notebook is that the onstage pool is bigger than most people realize. Furthermore, it had caused some water damage that needed to be addressed as well. Between those two things, it’s not a simple run of the mill load out. That is why they are closing this early to make sure that things are fixed. My honest guess is that if the pool wasn’t there, they may have been able to have a little more time on Broadway before they closed. But, that is not the case.
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Beanie Feldstein & More to Star in SPELLING BEE at Kennedy Center Aug 30
2024, 11:58:01 AM
The Distinctive Baritone said: "Licensing companies all have different rules as to what is a “professional” production, but I imagine if professional productions are restricted, it is mostlyEquity companies that will not be granted licenses for it."
What about a professional company that isn’t an equity one? For example, years ago I lived upstate in Rhinebeck New York and volunteered at the local armature theatre there. There was one s
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Beanie Feldstein & More to Star in SPELLING BEE at Kennedy Center Aug 30
2024, 04:24:51 AM
IdinaBellFoster said: "Professional rights to produce the show regionally arerestricted for 2025, so this is almost certain to be aiming for Broadway."
Unless I’m missing something (which could be the case, I don’t know) according to the list of upcoming productions of this show on the MTI website, the last one on the list is for a production in December of 2025. How does that make it restricted for 2025?
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Remastered Recordings? Aug 12
2024, 09:52:18 AM
darquegk said: "Is there any new or alternate material on the remastered Next to Normal? And does it fix the extremely notable harsh autotune on "what it is you're aFRAId of?""
Unfortunately, the remastered Next to Normal album is just the full cast recording. There’s no bonus or new material of any kind. I did listen to some of the songs on the remastered, side by side with the original recording. There’s some tracks that are better on the
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Remastered Recordings? Aug 10
2024, 11:39:32 AM
For whatever it’s worth, there’s a remastered recording of Next to Normal that came out yesterday.
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