I've always wondered... — Page 2

[i]Umm the broadway production isn't making a million dollars profit every week. Those are GROSS TICKET SALES, not profits. [/i]

My bad, I forgot to factor in overhead costs and whatnot. No need to get snappy.

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What happened with Stephenie Block? Why was she dropped after the workshop?

Why would they have to buy her out?

They also share in 1.5% of the subsidiary rights, including foreign productions, stock and amateur productions, and the sale of the motion picture rights. But again, that is 1.5% divided amongst every actor who participated in the workshop, it can amount to a nice little chunk of change coming in to help float you through those times between jobs if the show is as successful as something like Wicked, or has a heavy regional life like shows such as Into the Woods or Secret Garden (both developed under the workshop code), but nowhere near what 5% would be.

"Hal Prince wasn't involved with the original concept of 'Evita.' Rice and Lloyd Webber had already structured the show (and recorded it) long before Prince signed on to direct the initial stage production.

Not to mention the original film version of Sunset Boulevard starts with Joe's death as well. "

"I don't think comparing the Evita flashback structure to Sunset Blvd's flashback structure is saying that one mimics the other. Flashbacks are one of the most common forms of storytelling. In Evita she is not telling her story, there is a completely separate narrator taking us through this, as opposed to Sunset where Joe is telling his own story through his eyes, which is why the poor actor playing him gets to barely leave the stage throughout. And as stated, Billy Wilder wrote the original screenplay as a flashback, so does that mean he ripped off others like Tennessee Williams who wrote The Glass Menagerie as a memory play (i.e. a flashback through Tom's eyes)? "

No, I for one don't like the whole "Lloyd Webber rips someone off" comparison/thing, but I just thought that since Lloyd Webber has claimed that he had written something for SUNSET around the time of EVITa and got the rights in the '70s (or Hal or whoever) that he may have gotten the idea to show her death in the beginning. (And I also knew that the original Sunset opened with that A fan of the film + musical) When you think about it it really is a either a plot destroyer or intriuging..could go either way. Why see a musical that you know the person dies right off the bat?

The two "main" (Perhaps Joe isn't the main FOCUS) characters dead (although was Sunset entirely known with the musical version? I can't recall..)and powerless..! Of course he very well could have taken the idea from anything or perhaps they thought it was their own..just the Sunset/EVITA timing!

Did Phebe Strole ever go on for Wendla?

Yes, Phoebe went on for Wendla numerous times.

Where do babies come from?

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Yes, the Workshop Code is still utilized quite often today. Equity views those actors involved in workshops as contributing to the creative process and thus has argued, and won, that they should receive some compensation for it. Each workshop that occurs brings in a different percentage, so an actor involved in multiple workshops for a show will get a higher percentage than an actor who only does the first or last one. If you want more information you can go to the document library of the Equity website and find the rules for Workshops, as well as the rulebooks for all other Equity contracts.