Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#1Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Posted: 9/16/08 at 3:28pm
"My idealistic idea is that I want to do a classic every year. But I have to see how I feel doing ‘The Tempest.’ And to do this work at Classic Stage, where your paycheck is — let me check the amount, it’s right here, I just deposited it yesterday — yes, it’s $428.14 a week. You have to be able to afford to do that."
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sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#2re: Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Posted: 9/16/08 at 3:33pm
I LOVE how humble he is!!! There aren't many other broadway stars as down to earth, kind, and amazing as him!
#3re: Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Posted: 9/16/08 at 3:34pm
"Well, he's worth it"
I'm not sure if that's an insult or a compliment to him.
#4re: Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Posted: 9/16/08 at 3:37pm
Well he's worth it!
He's not that bad an actor...
'Tis life for an actor, sadly: even my teacher parents make more than that. But classic plays, most often, are done at non-profit stages, where wages for everyone are even lower than usual (ask Jack O'Brien about his experience with COAST OF UTOPIA).
But hey: they're classic plays for a reason. It's a great role, and Mandy's a good enough actor to really pull it off. I'm looking forward to it.
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#5re: Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Posted: 9/16/08 at 3:45pmSadly, that's rather typical for most off-Broadway leads.
#7re: Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Posted: 9/16/08 at 4:15pmGod, I can't believe it's that little! And oddly specific!
tourboi
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/15/05
#9re: Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Posted: 9/16/08 at 5:08pm
Tell us how you really feel, Anastasia. 
HollyDiver
Stand-by Joined: 9/2/08
#10re: Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Posted: 9/16/08 at 5:09pmHa! I love the responses. I always heard he was a major ****to deal with, but performance-wise I think he is fine.
#9re: Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Posted: 9/16/08 at 5:17pmI work my ass off, in the medical field, and I make about that.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#10re: Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Posted: 9/16/08 at 5:20pm
"I work my ass off, in the medical field, and I make about that."
But you're only saving people's lives. Mandy is taking people to Heaven.
#12re: Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Posted: 9/16/08 at 6:44pmIf even Mandy Patinkin is earning only that much for playing friggin PROSPERO Off-Broadway, I think that says a lot about how underpaid New York actors are considering the cost of living there.
#13re: Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Posted: 9/16/08 at 6:57pm
I am not an actor/performer, but I wouldn't mind making us$ 1,700/month to do something that I love to do, Im sure a lot of actors work for free, or a lot less. Still, he is a Broadway star, and it's very real from him to reveal what he makes.
He has a lovely voice. A great talent.
#14re: Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Posted: 9/16/08 at 7:24pm
"But you're only saving people's lives. Mandy is taking people to Heaven."
EXCELLENT, gothampc. This belongs in a signature.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#15re: Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Posted: 9/16/08 at 7:35pm
He quit a network TV show.
No - wait - he quit TWO network TV shows.
I guess his plan is to do TV until he saves up enough money to quit the shwo and do stage for a while.
Only this time, when he runs out of money, I doubt any TV show will hire him.
#16re: Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Posted: 9/16/08 at 11:54pm
muscle--
A lot of people do what they love for a living and are able to make a comfortable living from it. It's just sad that so few theatres have the money to pay actors what they need to actually live on--especially in New York, where $400 a week will barely cover the cost of living. It's crazy how most stage actors need a day job even when they ARE theatrically employed!
#17re: Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Posted: 9/17/08 at 12:00am
Good god. I earned more than that on an Equity contract in regional theatre 25 years ago!
That's pretty horrifying.
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#18re: Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Posted: 9/17/08 at 8:25amVERY interesting... and real of Mandy to talk so openly about it.
philcrosby
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/04
#19re: Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Posted: 9/17/08 at 8:30am
That's pretty low, by Equity standards, but the point is still well made.
I remember when I worked at Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, Hal Holbrook was starring in our production of Chekhov's UNCLE VANYA while on hiatus from the TV show EVENING SHADE. He struggled mightily with the role, and won.
Anyway, towards the end of the run, I commented that he was probably looking forward to getting home and a easier time of it than VANYA. Quite the contrary, he said. And, he continued, how wrong were the entertainment industry's priorities that he had to do TV shows like SHADE in order to be able to afford to do great plays like VANYA.
I heartily agree.
Chevstriss
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/30/03
#20re: Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Posted: 9/17/08 at 11:58am
with accounting for inflation, when i book a lead at a LORT A, my salary is the same as it was in the 70s doing non-eq dinner theatre.
I stuck it into one of those year/dollar value calculators and nearly wept. thought my career had progressed. guess not.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#21re: Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Posted: 9/17/08 at 2:44pm
Anyone?
She only did Cheers for the $ so she could afford to do theatre.
#21re: Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Posted: 9/17/08 at 3:40pm
OK, so why do I keep getting deleted? Am I not allowed to express that I am not a fan of his? Seriously people...get over it!! He is not a nice person and I don't care what he gets paid.
Updated On: 9/17/08 at 03:40 PM
#22re: Mandy Patinkin Earns $428.14 a week
Posted: 9/17/08 at 4:55pmWhy isn't he nice? Just because he quit some tv shows? They still cast him because he draws the viewers in, and the viewers still watch the show even of he leaves.
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