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The cost for producing theater in NYC has skyrocketed since the pandemic. Off-broadway was already a precarious and costly endeavor, but it's even more so nowadways. The Atlantic has a pretty solid reputation in this industry, and I'm inclined to take their side. I had a high opinion of them too, but it's extremely difficult for me to take their side when they hired Littler Mendelson - the same notoriously anit-union law firm that's fighting on behalf of Starbucks and Amazon. Where is the Atl...

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.

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: To clarify, those healthcare/retirement benefits are coming from the union, and while the producing organization pays into them, Atlantic is not directly administering the benefits. (I'm assuming you know this but just clarifying for other ppl!)And, unlike most other union personnel who are on a standard Off-Bway agreement at Atlantic for ~8 weeks a year, the stagehands have more continuity within the company's whole season and it's not a one-size-fits-all agreem...

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, ...

There's a lot of mostly true/half true info here. The tricky thing to know/remember is CBS (or their production company) becomes the de-facto employer for every $ spent on the broadcast. A show pitches what they want to do, which could be incredibly simple (Penny in my Pocket) or incredibly complicated (Great Comet bringing 300 people onstage using the Radio City Elevators). CBS ballparks the cost: "This will cost $100K, this will cost $300K" and the show pays CBS directly. CBS then pays the ...

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.

The show is still under 2:35 with intermission, and I believe the line is back in. re: adding to running time and cost, the cost of adding a number (assuming the only effect is to make the runtime longer, as opposed to adding scenery or tech elements) is negligible. The show costs the same to run whether it’s 2 hours or 2 hours 55 minutes. Once you break the 3 hour mark, things get trickier, especially with an orchestra. But as long as the crew and orchestra are walking out before the top of ...

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: "lopside said: "How much does Wine and Roses cost to run? Can't be less than 500k?"I don't think ANY current musical costs less than 600 nowadays (though someone please chime in with specificsfrom the past 6 monthsif that's not true)."Ironically, I believe Ohio's running costs were between 500 and 600. There are a few between 600 and 650, though not many. Wine and Roses also had an extremely low (comparatively) capitalization which is a point in their favor.

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Ohio will be lucky if it gets a Lincoln Center archival recording."It was filmed by Lincoln Center last Thursday night.

Timon3 said: "Well this is all very confusing and is more confusing than when I started.I am going to use the megahit Hamilton as an example as it is recent and had 3 tours.So the first tour was Angelica that started 03/10/2017 at San Francisco and concluded 08/25/2023 in Puerto Rico.The Phillip Tour that started in Seattle on 02/06/2018 and is ongoing.The Peggy Tour started at 01/08/2017 at Puerto Rico and concluded in Toronto 08/20/2023Would it be fair to say that all 3 tours were on first ...

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/...

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.are you familiar with the work of “Natasha Katz”? I ...

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?

BroadwaysBroad said: "Could AI be used to create the projection designs and set designs and lighting designs? Would that put a lot of people out of work?"Broadway LD here. I have some thoughts.My job involves a LOT of work beyond just content creation. Attending meetings, giving feedback on script development, helping the director with world-building, making collaborative design decisions, interfacing with other departments...there's so much of my job that AI is not *remotely* close to being ...

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HogansHero said: Another thing worth noting (although my recollection may be off and hopefully someone can confirm since it's been a while) is that, because the strike vote relates only to the pink contract (covering show only labor hired by producers) and not to the house stage hands who are employed by the theatre owner, a rental in a non-signatory house still binds the producer to the league contract. Likewise, an owner producing in an unowned venue is still just a producer. This considera...