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Nice Work If You Can Get It Tour

Nice Work If You Can Get It Tour

rorschach37
#1Nice Work If You Can Get It Tour
Posted: 3/14/14 at 1:38pm

Looks like it will be happening after all, albeit Non-Equity.
http://www.backstage.com/casting/nice-work-if-you-can-get-it-tour-27515/

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fashionguru_23
#2Nice Work If You Can Get It Tour
Posted: 3/14/14 at 1:45pm

Doesn't seem like its going anywhere. That 12 week layoff is pretty big. Why even bother to tour it?


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Phantom of London
#2Nice Work If You Can Get It Tour
Posted: 3/14/14 at 1:49pm

$450 a week is not much to live on, considering you have to factor in a 12 week unpaid layoff.

rorschach37
#3Nice Work If You Can Get It Tour
Posted: 3/14/14 at 2:43pm

I agree completely, just noting that the production is happening.

trpguyy
#4Nice Work If You Can Get It Tour
Posted: 3/14/14 at 2:50pm

"$450 a week is not much to live on, considering you have to factor in a 12 week unpaid layoff."

Truth. Although the company members will surely be paid by the great state of New Jersey (or their home state, if they choose).

trpguyy
#5Nice Work If You Can Get It Tour
Posted: 3/14/14 at 2:52pm

I should also add that there has never been a more ironically named tour...

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loliveve
#6Nice Work If You Can Get It Tour
Posted: 3/14/14 at 3:33pm

Well, at least if it has to be a long layoff, at least it's during the holiday season and cast members can be with their family and friends...

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LiveLoud22
#7Nice Work If You Can Get It Tour
Posted: 3/14/14 at 3:47pm

$450 a week is a joke. Those performers could make double that waiting tables or working a cash register at Costco. It really is quite exploitative of the producers. They're charging equity-only ticket prices, raking in all that cash from audiences, but paying their performers far, far less. They might as well pay them in pesos. If I were a producer, I'd do the right thing and pay my performers a livable wage.

If the producers were charging less than they did with equity productions, that would be one thing. If this was a Phantom-size, highly technical, expensive-to-move show, that would also change things. In those two hypotheticals, you could make an argument about touring economics. But that's NOT THE CASE HERE.

They're charging top dollar ticket prices and slashing the performers' salaries, so that their weekly cut, as a producer, gets larger.



Updated On: 3/14/14 at 03:47 PM

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LiveLoud22
#8Nice Work If You Can Get It Tour
Posted: 3/14/14 at 3:47pm

Double Post
Updated On: 3/14/14 at 03:47 PM

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ACL2006
#9Nice Work If You Can Get It Tour
Posted: 3/15/14 at 1:23am

yeah, it's a really poor contract for this tour. work for 3 months, have 3 months off, then go back to work for 2 1/2 months. they're not really looking to bring in the top [non-equity] talent for this tour. I've seen tours that break from Thanksgiving to New Year's(6 weeks off). But 3 months off is unheard of.


A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

JohnyBroadway
#10Nice Work If You Can Get It Tour
Posted: 3/15/14 at 1:50am

This seems very similar to the equity Dolly tour.

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RippedMan
#11Nice Work If You Can Get It Tour
Posted: 3/15/14 at 2:31am

I just can't imagine that they couldn't find a stop for this tour for the holidays. Seems odd. It's a pretty darn family-friendly show. I'm assuming it's going to be just drops and stuff. Sucks. It was such a big lavish show on Broadway.

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choitoy
#12Nice Work If You Can Get It Tour
Posted: 3/15/14 at 3:22am

Ick! At this point, maybe I should wish for a good regional production instead of hoping that the tour comes...


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trpguyy
#13Nice Work If You Can Get It Tour
Posted: 3/17/14 at 2:07am

"They're charging top dollar ticket prices and slashing the performers' salaries, so that their weekly cut, as a producer, gets larger."

That's not really how it works, at all.

The producers sell the show to local presenters, who set ticket prices. I can guarantee you that the producers are not charging "top dollar" prices to presenters to buy the show for a week, or weekend.

If the market research suggested that this show would do well on the road, it would be going out as a bigger show with a higher weekly guarantee, and therefore better contracts.

I have a feeling not much of anyone will be making much money on this tour.


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