Legally Blonde Tour — Page 2

Why is Los Angeles or San Diego not on any of these lists? I mean i thought LA would be a big market for this show. Is it because there is no theater to have it because of the pantages being taken by Wicked?

Any casting yet?

Yes.

Just not officially announced.

no San Fran or Sacramento?

"Why is Los Angeles or San Diego not on any of these lists? I mean i thought LA would be a big market for this show. Is it because there is no theater to have it because of the pantages being taken by Wicked?"

No, WICKED is closing in January. LEGALLY BLONDE will the play the Pantages, but I don't know when that is.

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Weird that Cortney Wolson is doing the tour – I thought she was doing 9 to 5?

Becky Gulsvig is Elle on tour.
She's the Broadway u/s and goes on most of the time when LBB is out.

BrianS, can you elaborate about these concessions? I am curious to find out. I am surprised this is on a tiered contract as well and that they are cutting tracks. I would think that Legally Blonde would do great on the road and am interested in seeing it, but not a scaled down production. I didn't really think the sets were that large to begin with.

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Basically, it allows the producers to pay the actors at a lower rate than a production contract. It's not uncommon to reduce the number of tracks for a tour (thus lowering the running costs), but a while ago Equity started to concede weekly salaries as well.

(simplified version)
Many actors have proposed a shared responsibility system where a show is audited weekly and if the gross is lower than expected, the actors would get a lower rate than production contract, but if a show exceeded a set amount, the actors would get a higher pay rate than a production contract. This helps insulate the producers (and in this case more likely the presenters) with taking loses while rewarding actors for sharing in the risk when things are going well. Neither the producers (and for some unknown reason, Equity's leadership) will go for the idea.

As for Wicked, it's too early to say, but basically it has to due with keeping turnover costs down with the transfer. The producers are asking Equity to allow them to lock the actors into a contract with no out (as opposed to the traditional 4 week out) with only a small weekly pay raise to compensate. It is a very bad precedent to set with a chorus contract since it takes away a great deal of an actor's freedom, but my guess is Equity will concede it without even asking for feedback from it's members.

Our show has had numerous cases where Equity suspended a rule based solely on what the producers presented them with without asking us if the actual circumstances matched the producers description of events (does that make sense?). I cannot understand why Equity wouldn't check in with it's members first to get both sides of a story, but it seems to be par for the course.

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There was no Legally Blonde tour in the past.

Here is a link to the article of the cities and dates of the first national tour...
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/116410.html


It has also been confirmed that Becky Gulsvig (current Elle Woods understudy) will be playing Elle in the first national tour.

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Woo! Cortney Wolfson as Serena and Becky Gulsvig as Elle!
I'm so psyched it's coming to Boston!

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I am so excited Cortney is Serena! Congrats to her!

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