Stagehands Strike On The Way?

[CapnHook]

Posted: 7/6/07 at 12:07pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=19773

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 7/6/07 at 12:26pm

Mel Brooks get blamed again.

[chinkie azn jai]

Posted: 7/6/07 at 2:44pm

I would think the summer would be a harder hit to New York/Broadway than the fall since there are so many tourists in the city during the summer months.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 7/6/07 at 2:52pm

Once they get a load of Lance Bass in Hairspray, they may go on strike a whole lot sooner.

[Sondheim_Geek]

Posted: 7/6/07 at 3:06pm

We'd certainly see alot more John Doyle productions...

[Born To Reign]

Posted: 7/6/07 at 3:13pm

I blame this board. You all are ruining Broadway.

[Dover]

Posted: 7/7/07 at 12:17am

Summer is a longer season of good sales, but if the strike is only going to last a week or a few days, Thanksgiving week is by far the biggest week on Broadway.

I hope there's not a strike, of course, but I've been working out of town so I haven't been hearing the gossip in the theatres to know how serious it is. Just about every time a major contract is up for renewal it seems like there's talk, but this does seem more severe than most. I hope everybody keeps their heads cool. Everybody loses if there's a strike.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/7/07 at 8:30pm

The producers are giving the stagehands ammunition

Much like NYC municipal workers who salivate over the city surplus, they could not care less re the out year deficits or what happens if Wall St tanks. If the later happens, the city is up a creek

Back to the stagehands, they will say give us ours & the producers will raise prices somemore. Neither the stagehands or producers lose here only the theater goers take it on the chin again

Let them strike. I could not care less. Brooks won't sell many premium seats when a strike is going on.

[Steve2]

Posted: 7/7/07 at 8:38pm

Yes, it has been a record year for Broadway, however the stagehands have to realize that most of that wealth has been concentrated on just a handful of shows, Wicked, Jersey Boys, Mamma Mia, etc.

Hopefully, they will keep in mind the significant number of shows that closed this year.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/7/07 at 9:53pm

Do not count on that happening any time soon

[TechEverlasting]

Posted: 7/7/07 at 10:47pm

I hope this gets worked out, if there's a serious impasse the resulting strike could last a lot longer than the two day musician's strike of 2003. Broadway is an interesting case for the labor movement. Corporations can't outsource running Broadway shows to China or India, although I suspect some of them would sure like to.

I hope that none of the young actors or wanna-be theater techs reading this list would even think about crossing an IATSE picket line should a strike occur.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/8/07 at 7:47pm

I wonder if any producers of shows to open in the fall may delay the opening with this hanging over their head.