"Ivy should have been fired from Heaven on Earth for the performance BEFORE the one where she cracks up and falls. Standing on the stairs purposely looking bored when the other girls are smiling ear to ear? Telegraphing how much she hates what she's doing? She'd be out of the show following THAT performance. It doesn't work that way. A producer has to show just cause, and looking bored once, isn't just cause. She would have been given a good talking to, and a letter would have been written by the Production Stage Manager to her, detailing why her behavior is detrimental to the production and telling her that her job is at risk, with copies going to the General Manager and Equity. If the behavior continues...THEN the producers would have just cause. The General Manager would probably also write a follow up letter to her...expressing their displeasure with her behavior.
If people were fired every time they looked bored or phoned in a performance then long running Broadway shows would be firing people every night.
Being drugged and out of it, ruining a number, walking out of the theatre in costume, and taking the costume home, are just cause...and I would expect her to be told to come to her dressing room, gather her belongings, leave and never darken the stage door again.
"Just a Guy. Your feelings are touching. I am gladdened by the thought that you will one day wind up 6 feet under as we all do." - MrRoxy ------
"I do not suggest you walk out the door onto a New York street with your vulnerable child part exposed and not protected..." - Jason Bennett
