BROADWAY CANCELLED THROUGH 25 NOVEMBER — Page 3

The Grinch SHOULD be saved. Its non-league producers have a non-expired contract with Local One that is totally independent of the contract currently under dispute.

So what about the Macys Thanksgiving Parade? Will Legally Blonde (a strike affected show) or Xanadu and Mary Poppins (shows not affected by the strike) still be able to perform?

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Well, there go the Cyrano tickets my folks had been holding onto for months.

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I know the feeling. I had a ticket to Cyrano on the first day of the strike.

from the information i've had (which i'm sure is not the whole story) i've been behind local one i support their reasons for striking but this is getting ridiculous. As a stagehand you have to have at least some respect for theatre and broadway and if i knew i was the reason for certain show's that have had a lot of history and could have been on for another few years to potentially close I would feel just awful. This is an obscene amount of money that will be lost you'd think they could come to some sort of compromise at this point. I honestly don't know what ot think anymore.

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> The producers should DEFINITELY make a donation to BC/EFA after

I am a stagehand, and I am now out of a job until at least 11/25. But I will personally donate 50% of my week's strike benefit payment BC/EFA this week. I care. The producers? I doubt it.

Yeah, I heard it was the League that walked out . . .not Local 1. Nevertheless, to be honest (no matter how optimistic I am) -- I'm pissed at everyone now! I mean, involved in this situation!

I stand behind making your points and doing it for one week -- but THIS IS RIDICULOUS! We're talking about history, NYC, a way of life, dreams, goals, and business and charities!!! The League needs to get their heads out of . . . you know where . . . and be f&#king reasonable; instead of walking out like babies to pout! Geez!!! And Local 1, could you all please agree to some sort of COMPROMISE instead of holding on with a death grip to every little thing? [Although, I get that you have to do what you have to do]. I'd just like this to end, today, if not sooner.

I don't know all the deepest issues . . . and don't claim to. But, please, everyone needs to give up a bit. Both sides!

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Updated On: 11/18/07 at 11:51 PM

From what I'm hearing, the League walked out around 9PM. But they were able not only to agree to cancel performances for an entire week AND to get a press release out to the press JUST in time for the 11PM news cycle.

In the words or Whoopie, Robin and Billy fro an old Comic Relief
"Don't be a greedy bast**d. Those yuppie days are over & gone!"

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I still can't believe everything's cancelled THROUGH next weekend! Don't the stagehands/Local One realize that if The Union and producers let them strike through this week, the shows won't be back up any time too soon? That means no paychecks for the stagehands, really bad business for buses, trains, airplanes, restaurants, hotels, New York City as a whole...

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Yeah, trust me, I would rather be back at work this week. But the loss to me is about a thousand bucks, take-home pay. What's the loss for Wicked, Jersey Boys, Curtains, etc.?

The union has been warning us for over a year that we were going to be attacked, and to be prepared for a long work stoppage. We are.

Again the League went right to the press with their grievances to try and gain public support. It seems like the definition of "Bad Faith".

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