Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?
Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?
Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#1
Posted: 2/10/16 at 7:42pm
http://pagesix.com/2016/02/10/kristin-chenoweth-and-alan-cumming-reveal-how-much-tony-hosts-get-paid/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=P6Facebook&utm_medium=SocialFlow That is a ridiculous amount!
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Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#2
Posted: 2/10/16 at 7:46pm
Times are tough
Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#3
Posted: 2/10/16 at 7:49pm
That's about two weeks pay as a regular principal on Broadway. Not the best but certainly not the worst.
Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#4
Posted: 2/10/16 at 7:50pm
I bet Hunter and Jen would pay to host.
Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#5
Posted: 2/10/16 at 7:51pm
I miss arguing with Hunter and then getting invited to his house to try and shut me up.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#6
Posted: 2/10/16 at 7:58pm
AND they had to split a gift bag!!
Times is hard, Times is hard...
Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#7
Posted: 2/10/16 at 8:06pm
Does anyone what nph made? And what James corden will be making. I bet they would still make a low amount since they both did/will be working for CBS at the time they host(ed)
Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#8
Posted: 2/10/16 at 8:12pm
They're just counting it as part of his contract for his nighttime show.
They aren't reimbursing his travel.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#9
Posted: 2/10/16 at 8:27pm
Greyhound only costs about $200.00 one way. Surely he can busk the cost back from his fellow passengers doing karaoke !
Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#10
Posted: 2/10/16 at 8:28pm
Yeah cuz it's AMAZING right? It's amazing!
Good luck James on your amazing trip to the Tony'sies'es!
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Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#11
Posted: 2/10/16 at 9:01pm
its AHHH MAAAH ZHIIINNGG!!
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Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#12
Posted: 2/11/16 at 9:34am
That's probably more than Kristin made per week doing On the 20th Century. I don't see the issue. You don't go into theater for the money.
Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#13
Posted: 2/11/16 at 9:53am
CindersGolightly said: "That's about two weeks pay as a regular principal on Broadway. Not the best but certainly not the worst.
"This is NOT true....LOL! Where did you get these numbers? An ensemble member alone makes almost double that in 2 weeks.
Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#14
Posted: 2/11/16 at 9:55am
neonlightsxo said: "That's probably more than Kristin made per week doing On the 20th Century. I don't see the issue. You don't go into theater for the money.
"And you don't go into it to work for free either!
Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#15
Posted: 2/11/16 at 10:17am
TV isn't theater.
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Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#16
Posted: 2/11/16 at 10:22am
"And you don't go into it to work for free either!"
$2,700 is not *for free*. You clearly have no concept of money in theater.
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Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#17
Posted: 2/11/16 at 11:59am
2700 is hardly worth the time and effort put into it. I'm sure Hugh Jackman got paid FAR more than that.
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Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#18
Posted: 2/11/16 at 12:00pm
He did but with all due respect, he's also a much larger name than Alan and Kristin.
Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#19
Posted: 2/11/16 at 4:19pm
It does seem very little considering it's a live TV special that required lots of rehearsal, and they both did a TON of press in the days/weeks leading up to it, and were also co-writers of the material (although they also joked about how heavily they were censored in the kinds of jokes they wanted to do lol)
But they way it was presented really wasn't meant as a complaint. It was a funny sketch they did as part of Allen's show. The way they talked about it was that they described how much hard and stressful work the whole thing was, and that you'd expect to get lots of $$ because it's a big TV gig. Then they asked the audience to guess, then gave the number, and continued by saying they were of course only told after they had agreed to do it. And then Kristin added it wouldn't even pay for a pair of Louboutin's, pointing to her sparkly shoes (I don't know where the subway fare reference comes from, I didn't hear that being said?).
The whole thing was quite hilarious, fitting with the theme of them singing "Easy Street" before, and was anything but a rant or complaint. Just to put that into perspective :) Kristin has said many times in the months after she would do it again if asked, so she clearly didn't mind too much. Just enough to make fun of it.
Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#20
Posted: 2/11/16 at 4:29pm
Wow the amount they were paid is pretty offensive. $2700 to host a nationally broadcast awards ceremony, no matter how "niche" it may be, is ridiculous. How did either of their agents approve of that???
Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#21
Posted: 2/11/16 at 6:31pm
What they did for love......
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#22
Posted: 2/11/16 at 6:34pm
You just know CBS has a whole sob story about how nobody watches and they can barely afford to show the awards and our budget is so low because the ratings are so low.
Hell, somebody should give them one of those Marie Antoinette-level Oscar nominee gift bags for hosting the Tony'ies'es.
Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#23
Posted: 2/11/16 at 7:43pm
If that other article is true that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler got "low six figures" (meaning something like $250,000) to host the Golden Globes, the $2700 figure is ridiculous. No wonder no one wants to do it.
I am having trouble finding online what the union minimum is for appearing as a principal performer on a 3 hour long television show, but I don't think it's that much lower than $2700.
(Of course, the Super Bowl halftime performers work for free, so maybe that's CBS's pitch to the Tonys host. "This is like being on the Super Bowl!"
Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#24
Posted: 2/11/16 at 7:46pm
Actually, the only recently not non-profit NFL prefers it if their halftimers pay them to appear.
Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth Only Made $2700 Each To Host The Tonys?#25
Posted: 2/11/16 at 8:35pm
mike said: Of course, the Super Bowl halftime performers work for free, so maybe that's CBS's pitch to the Tonys host. "This is like being on the Super Bowl!"
This can't be true. The performers on the Super Bowl aren't paid???
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