paychecks

[livelife]

Posted: 4/17/06 at 4:03pm

Sorry if there's already a post on this, but does anybody know appoximately how much a broadway principle earns. I heard that the ensemble is $1100 a week.....just curious really

My friend told me that when Elaine Paige starred in Evita in London 30 yrs ago, she was on £10,000 a WEEK!

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 4/17/06 at 4:04pm

Equity Scale for ensemble members is around $1400 a week. "Name" actors make more. Example: Julia Roberts is making $35,000 a week in 3 Days of Rain.

The only exception to this rule are the cast of the various non-profit productions. Roundabout operates using off-Broadway contract. Therefore, Harry Connick Jr is making $1100 a week.
Updated On: 4/17/06 at 04:04 PM

[livelife]

Posted: 4/17/06 at 4:06pm

o right

[willact4food]

Posted: 4/17/06 at 4:07pm

There are TONS of threads about this. PLEASE use the search function. The boys here at BWW made it for a reason!

[astonishing1985]

Posted: 4/17/06 at 4:07pm

*cough* search *cough*

[livelife]

Posted: 4/17/06 at 4:08pm

thanks!

1100? is that for ALL off-broadway shows? i thought they would make more than that!

[willact4food]

Posted: 4/17/06 at 4:11pm

First of all, The Pajama Game isn't off-Broadway. It's very much on Broadway.

PLEASE SEARCH!!

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 4/17/06 at 4:11pm

Equity minimum is $1422. Principals make more depending on experience, name recognition and (sometimes) the size of the role. A tiny handful of stars have made $40-50K/week (and even a bit more), but that is very rare and reserved only for those celebrities whose names sell tickets due to success in film and tv, beyond their stage work.

[Thesbijean]

Posted: 4/17/06 at 4:13pm

$1422 is the minimum, but barely anyone gets that, as Equity has so many little required add on pays, like $50 for walking down stairs on stage during a performance.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 4/17/06 at 4:20pm

Roundabout, Lincoln Center and MTC do not use an off-broadway contract for their Broadway venues, but a LORT A contract, which is very different (off-Broadway contracts typically pay about half that $1050, at most, for the really established theatres; most pay much less than even that). There are some 60+ not-for-profit theatres around the country that operate under a LORT A contract (the Goodman, the Taper, Arena, La Jolla etc). There are various restrictions for the three NY LORT theatre companies, one being that after a show has run at one of their theatres for a certain length of time (10 - 12 weeks), if they wish to extend beyond that, then the theatre must adopt the stanard Broadway production contract and begin to pay the actors at least the Equity minimum of $1422.

[Garland Grrrl]

Posted: 4/17/06 at 4:39pm

some b'way shows are AGMA, the musical review genre especially, which has a different payscale.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 4/17/06 at 4:42pm

True, I believe Ring of Fire is using that pay scale.

[Horton]

Posted: 4/17/06 at 6:54pm

this will sound stupid, and i dont feel like searching, but are actors paid through rehersals, and how much do you think Charlotte d'Amboise gets paid in Chicago?

[allofmylife]

Posted: 4/18/06 at 1:45am

I just saw a contract for sale on ebay. It was from 1937, for Victor Moore (the Nathan Lane of his time) to appear for one 15 minute radio performance. $2000.00. In 1937. Two thousand bucks, I just googled, in '37 dollars, that was worth 26,270 dollars today. For 15 minutes work.

I am in the wrong job at the wrong time.

[mrkringas]

Posted: 4/18/06 at 8:46am

I dont know about LaPaige getting that much for Evita but she would have been getting something like that or much more for Sunset and King and I.

Or so people say