So...they get paid to just...SIT there?

Lion King, how they alternate young nala and young simba. The two that arent performing that night just get paid to sit their?

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Yeah. Same with Tarzan. One performs 4 performances a week and the other performs the other 4. And when one isn't on, they go to the theatre and sit there until intermission and then are allowed to go home. What's wrong with that? They're kids!

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Swings get paid to "sit there," too. In both instances, if something goes wrong on stage, they'd better get ready...

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Child labor laws.

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Casted is not a word.

Lee Bouvier (played by Kelsey Fowler) in Grey Gardens is not double cast. She's... ten I think.

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More shocking when looking at your original post in this thread is the notion that your teachers get paid to teach you? What do you do? Just sit there?

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I'm pretty sure child actors dont make nearly as much as adult actors do...

Who set a wild hair up your rear?

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"I'm pretty sure child actors dont make nearly as much as adult actors do... "

The equity rules are no different for children than adults as far as pay goes.

Labor laws are not what create the crazy kids schedules. It is very much a British thing as another poster said. That's why not every show works that way. Baby June in Gypsy didn't have a double (as far as I know) and I know Daisy Eagan only got Thursday nights off during her run in The Secret Garden.

They dont' always double cast, as sondhead pointed out, Eagan was there for most of "Secret Garden," and they don't usually alternate Annie's or Oliver's.

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I had done a search for my topic and didn't see anything in the archives, but then I saw this thread, so I'll post this here since it's similar. (I'm screwed either way since some will yell at me for thread-jacking, and others would yell at me for if I kept the other topic going and direct me to this one.)

I’m not an actress so I guess I can’t really understand, but the thought of being a standby sounds boring to me.

Would anyone here who’s ever been a standby or knows someone who has been one share some experiences?

I don’t know. It seems like it would suck to only do rehearsals and go weeks at a time without dong the thing you love; meanwhile, you’d still have to be at the theatre every night. And if the person you standby for has an almost flawless attendance record, you may only be going on during his or her vacation.

I think I’d rather been in the ensemble with no role to understudy than be the standby who’s on the sidelines almost every night, even though the standby is supposed to be the “better” job to have. But maybe there’s something I’m missing here, so please enlighten me.

Why'd I assume this was about DEUCE?

Yes.

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During the matinee of Les Miserables the kids are there for the bow because clearly they have the evening preformance to do.

But, I know someone mentioned Billy Elliot and how it has three actors rotating the lead role. The thing is that on broadway there is an equity rule saying that they have to announce who is on and if there are any cast changes for the preformance your seeing. This includes child actors who are rotating a role. I can bet anything that when the show opens up on broadway there are people who will get a hold of their preformance schedule and that people who became hardcore fans of the show will only go on the particular day that their favorite Billy is preforming.

I am not sure about if kids get paid differently then adults because they are not doing the same number of preformences. If you want a good example of two adult preformers who get paid the same but don't do the 8 shows a week, take a look at the actresses playing Christine in Phantom. Neither one of them does all 8 shows. Yet, there is no difference in pay.

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