Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Patti LuPone gives up equity card
#2Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 10:58am
Between Funny Girl and now 1776 is Patti trying to make sure she remains the queen of controversy :P? Kidding, but would like to understand more the context of why and where her name has been 'bandied about'.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#3Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 10:58am
Her name was thrown out there constantly after Lillias White's incident. So Patti will be apart of the non-equity COMPANY tour next year now? Guess she's done with Broadway.
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.
verywellthensigh
Broadway Star Joined: 6/14/22
#4Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 11:05am
"Little Broadway pipsqueaks trying to be ME? Well! Top this, bitches!"
Alex M
Broadway Star Joined: 11/16/13
#5Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 11:08am
This entire year of broadway drama is the funniest thing thats ever happened. Whats going to happen next? Im on the front of my seat!
BCfitasafiddle
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/25/20
#6Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 11:08am
Damn. Bold power move. Happy I have seen her many times onstage....
#7Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 11:10am
BCfitasafiddle said: "Damn. Bold power move. Happy I have seen her many times onstage...."
Please, this is the same person who said War Paint was her last musical
#8Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 11:10am
It’s not like she can’t get her card back easily, if she did indeed “give it up.”
A little dramatic, even for Patti. Gotta love her.
BCfitasafiddle
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/25/20
#9Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 11:11am
imeldasturn said: "BCfitasafiddle said: "Damn. Bold power move. Happy I have seen her many times onstage...."
Please, this is the same person who said War Paint was her last musical"
True!! LOL. Forgot about that.
#10Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 11:12am
Alex M said: "This entire year of broadway drama is the funniest thing thats ever happened. Whats going to happen next? Im on the front of my seat!"
Right?! It’s like Diana won the Razzie and then all hell broke loose!
I could use a prince to save me from my prince.
#11Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 11:13am
If this is true, it doesn’t mean she can’t perform on Broadway. She would still work under an Equity contract and have dues taken from her pay, and employers would still need to make benefit contributions. She would not be able to use any of the union’s resources.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
verywellthensigh
Broadway Star Joined: 6/14/22
#12Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 11:16am
"WHO do They Think They Are??!"
#13Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 11:17am
What exactly is this move in response to?
#14Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 11:21am
CATSNYrevival said: "What exactly is this move in response to?"
Not having a headline in a while.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#15Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 11:27am
Kad said: "If this is true, it doesn’t mean she can’t perform on Broadway. She would still work under an Equity contract and have dues taken from her pay, and employers would still need to make benefit contributions. She would not be able to use any of the union’s resources."
She would actually need to re-join the union. You can’t work on a Production/Bdwy contract without being a member of equity.
JSquared2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/23/17
#16Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 11:31am
Bill Snibson said: "Kad said: "If this is true, it doesn’t mean she can’t perform on Broadway. She would still work under an Equity contract and have dues taken from her pay, and employers would still need to make benefit contributions. She would not be able to use any of the union’s resources."
She would actually need to re-join the union. You can’t work on a Production/Bdwy contract without being a member of equity."
But in the meantime, she saves $$ on dues.
AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#17Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 11:41am
Bill Snibson said: "She would actually need to re-join the union. You can’t work on a Production/Bdwy contract without being a member of equity."
That is not true. No one in the US can be forced to join a union, and that applies to Equity the same as it does in any other profession where workers are unionized. All actors on Broadway are required to be on an Equity contract, but they do not have to join. Since NY is not a "right to work" state, everyone who is on those union contracts will have the standard working dues withheld (currently 2.5% of their weekly gross salary) and they would not have the option to get that money back the way they would in a "right to work" state.
They would also have health and pension payments still made on their behalf from the producers and would have the option to participate in those plans assuming they meet all requirements (number of work weeks for health, meeting vesting requirements for pension, which Patti would have met a long time ago anyway). It also means that as a non-member they would not be able to participate in any from of governance or other strictly member benefits, so any grievance they have about the way the union is being run will fall on deaf ears.
In reality, this is a strange move from Patti that just feels, like others have said, as a way to grab attention. Her name "being bandied about" has nothing to do with union matters and is entirely because people are comparing things she herself has done in the past with some of the current situations. Her being a member or not has nothing to do with it.
#18Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 11:43am
So it is official now! July 31, 2022, was Queen LuPone's last time on a Broadway Stage! The Great Bright Way won't be the same without her! We do not deserve the amazing talent she holds!
The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes. -Harold Prince
#19Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 11:48am
Dylan Smith4 said: "So it is official now! July 31, 2022, was Queen LuPone's last time on a Broadway Stage! The Great Bright Way won't be the same without her! We do not deserve the amazing talent she holds!"
LOLOLOLOL Please do yourself a favor and refrain from putting money on that.
#20Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 11:51am
I’m sure we will get her in one more show or solo concerts “one last time, or this is it”
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#21Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 12:05pm
FYI: Equity is solely for Broadway. She ain’t retiring. She’ll continue working on television, films, voice over work, concerts, etc. It’s hilarious how the Twitter idiots are reacting like this is her announcing she’s retiring. The woman is now part of Ryan Murphy’s repertory of actors so she ain’t going anywhere any time soon. She’ll be back on Broadway eventually. Could be a decade but she’ll be back.
#22Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 12:18pm
Bill Snibson said: "Kad said: "If this is true, it doesn’t mean she can’t perform on Broadway. She would still work under an Equity contract and have dues taken from her pay, and employers would still need to make benefit contributions. She would not be able to use any of the union’s resources."
She would actually need to re-join the union. You can’t work on a Production/Bdwy contract without being a member of equity."
No, she would not. If you are working under a collectively bargained contract, such as Production, you can be forced to pay working dues or initiation fees, but you cannot be made to actually join. The Production contract even defines "member in good standing" as "a person who pays initiation fees and dues (or the monetary equivalents thereof) to the Union as financial obligations in accordance with the requirements of the National Labor Relations Act." For the purposes of the Production contract, contracted actors are only required to pay what Equity requires (weekly working dues + initiation fee) to satisfy the "membership" requirement. Per the National Labor Relations Board:
Federal law allows unions and employers to enter into "union-security" agreements which require all employees in a bargaining unit to become union members and begin paying union dues and fees within 30 days of being hired. Employees may choose not to become union members and pay dues, or opt to pay only that share of dues used directly for representation, such as collective bargaining and contract administration.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#23Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 12:23pm
Does anyone here know how her name was "bandied about"
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#24Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 12:23pm
The level of Broadway drama this year is… thrilling. We need a reality show.
#25Patti LuPone gives up equity card
Posted: 10/17/22 at 12:29pm
Dollypop said: "Does anyone here know how her name was "bandied about""
She and her reputation were constantly being compared to the actions of both Lillias White and Sara Porkalob with the connotation that if Patti did these things we would all be applauding.
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