This Strike probably just shut down 4-5 broadway shows

Les MIs, Drowsy, Blonde, Grinch, Rent, ..any others?
this is disgusting. Get your fat lazy butts BACK to the damn table and finish this.
Who does this hurt? Airlines (people won't be flying in), restaurants, waiters, parking attendants, souvenir people, taxis, COLONy....shall I go on?
congrats Local 1, i hope you get everything you want for xmas. Because all those shows you just closed will have a very sad Holiday season. This is pathetic.

You know what, I agree with you . . .
I am totally pissed off at Local 1 and the f&$king League!!!

I didn't have any plans to see shows . . . but his is just plain wrong now, obnoxious, disgusting and rude! A way of life shut down by selfish people wanting it all and neither side compromising to get an American classic back on board!!!

Will we lose "Wicked" as well? That may kill me!

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If everything else were to close- Wicked would still be around. They have been at 100% for years.

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See, here's the thing. You're making all of this up, and you're going to get people all worried and riled up about based on nothing but your pure speculation. Yes, there might be some danger, but "probably just shut down" these shows? A little bit of a gun-jump, don't you think?

God, people are so obsessed with being the first to break the news that they'll post any old freaking lie just to get attention.

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>> If everything else were to close- Wicked would still be
>> around. They have been at 100% for years.

Yeah, I get that . . . but, see, how much money loss is that for them each day? "Wicked" is losing more than any other show. Couldn't that be bad? I hope you are right that it will never close, no matter what!

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Wicked has recouped a million times over, they haven't lost money since i don't know when(did they ever?)
I bet you my left testicle that Wicked will survive the Stagehand strike of '07!

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I really don’t understand how this will effect any show that had not previously announced a closing? It is not every expensive to maintain an empty building for a few weeks. Plus $20-40 mill in the bank? Of coarse it will hurt the advance sales of every single show but I don’t think it will close any that were not planning to close otherwise. For shows doing poorly and not breaking even the strike could be saving them money.

I wish that Roundabout and MTC would extend their current productions just to keep something up on the boards.

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RoundAbout shows are usually short runs> My husband and I have season tickets and will be seeing shows well into '08.

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Personally,

everyone who is saying that the producers and the union are very self centered because it is not allowing them to go see a show should take a look in the mirror.

I am sorry if I am comming off as a bit harsh. But there is one thing that you have to realize. You have to realize that almost every time someone says that they thinks that the stagehands or producers are gretty lists about four or so shows they want to see. I think that saying that the stage hands and the producers are greety because you can't go see your show is just as greedy as wha the two sides are doing.

I live in NYC. I have no problem waiting this out. I can see a broadway show whenever I want to. But, I do feel for the people who wanted to come to the city for vactation and see a show or two ect ect. But, saying that you think that the stage hands are bullies ect ect just because you have tickets of your own is not the way about it.

That is my two cents and I am stepping off my soap box now.

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I've been wondering for a while now why no one's called out AngActing for the huge sock puppet she is, but she's just so entertaining that I don't even care!

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"I can see a broadway show whenever I want to."

A lot of people can't. I agree that it's not right to call the stagehands, Local One, et cetera bullies, but after saving up for a long time and sometimes even waiting a year to see something, who are they supposed to take their anger out on?

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She deserves her own sitcom!

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Lets face it... The stagehands are the bullies. REALISM PEOPLE. The union knows they really aren't going to win here. When the union decided that they were going to strike they were trying to prove a point by making the public mad and were going to try making the producers that are supposedly making these millions of dollars look bad. ITS BACK FIRED IN THEIR OWN FACES. The union looks like asses and the producers have had nothing to do with it. The union has smacked every ticket and theatre goer in the face. Please try to tell me that the union was not trying to piss the public off which they in turn thought the public would blame the producers and try to use that against the producers. Just because someone has realistic business practices and actually wants to try and make some money as opposed to loose it week after week after week. Just because someone has money does not make them the evil one. Just because someone has more money does not make them the enemy. If you step back the idiot union is biting the hand that feeds them and won't be surprised when this really horribly backfires and possibly leaves 20% if not more of their workers out of work as opposed to may only a small few (that aren't working really anyway).