Posted: 5/4/20 at 9:07pm
Posted: 5/4/20 at 9:20pm
I hope not, I was really looking forward to seeing this tour.
Posted: 5/4/20 at 9:26pm
GrantGrant said: "I hope not, I was really looking forward to seeing this tour."
Agreed. I was about to take a three hour trip to Boston just to see it because it is not coming near me.
Posted: 5/4/20 at 9:29pm
This unfortunately is true. I have a friend who was cast and is sad now.
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Posted: 5/4/20 at 9:36pm
Might just be a cost-saving thing if the tour never goes out this coming season.
Posted: 5/4/20 at 9:41pm
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Posted: 5/4/20 at 10:31pm
This is a public FB status update, so:
https://www.facebook.com/nchernicoff/posts/10216375791015588?__tn__=H-R
Posted: 5/4/20 at 10:59pm
are you folks seriously laboring under the mis-impression that ANY tour is going out this fall? LOL
Posted: 5/4/20 at 11:07pm
Reading the Facebook comments, one poster wrote what the salaries were gonna be. Really low in my opinion. They also have to share their hotel room with another. The per diem seemed low also. When the nonequity tour of Rent came to my city, last year, an actor newly hired to cover Collins sat next to me and we chatted about life on tour. (I have always been curious about this and "luckily" for him he got a really nosy person asking him the questions.) He told me that they each got a private hotel room and didn't have to share. Although I never mentioned salaries, he mentioned per diums. If I remember correctly his was quite higher than what was posted about Tootsie. The cast in my opinion were all very young. So it is probably obvious that some tour productions treat and pay their employees much better than others. Feel free to rebuttal if I am wrong.
Posted: 5/4/20 at 11:07pm
double
Updated On: 5/4/20 at 11:07 PM
Posted: 5/5/20 at 10:05am
Posted: 5/5/20 at 10:30am
ughh. I got upset this wasn't coming to Philly and was planning on maybe taking a trip to the nearest stop. Glad i saw the full OBC last year right after it opened (then bumped into Sarah Stiles on the street a few weeks later who was lovely)
Posted: 5/5/20 at 10:40am
Here's the link to her post, Broadway Buddy:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B_zptG4DGjD/
Posted: 5/5/20 at 11:25am
Posted: 5/5/20 at 11:36am
It's a VERY ****ty thing.
RE: HOUSING AND PER DIEMS: Double occupancy rooms is *very* standard on tour, regardless of AEA or Non-AEA. The chief difference being that on *most* AEA tour tiers, you are given a choice of two company hotels and a choice to share a room or have your own room... your choice determines how much Per Diem you receive as the housing cost is deducted... or you may take the full Per Diem and find your own housing. The Per Diem listed for this casting call is low, but the housing is provided by the producer separately, so it would balance out *somewhat*
The thing that really strikes me on these salaries is that they are offering overage payments to the cast... it's not NEARLY equitable (pun intended) to the overages called for by AEA SETA agreements.
RE: TOUR HOUSE SUBSCRIPTIONS = PRE-SOLD AUDIENCES: Tour financing is actually somewhat complicated and that pre-sold subscription has very little to do with how these things are determined. I'd be happy to TRY to explain that in another post.
It's VERY ****ty. Some people already had signed contracts and Stage Management and Company Management had been engaged for a little while. There ARE provisions for pulling the plug on a show, so I am curious to see where this falls with AEA membership... and I am REALLY curious - and scared - to see the numbers that made them make this choice... and I bet a hefty portion of the blame for this goes to the local presenters and not just squarely on Troika's shoulders.
Posted: 5/5/20 at 11:43am
markypoo said: "But Troika is also producing the MFL tour, and it has Equity actors in it."
I think Troika does both equity and non equity tours.
Posted: 5/5/20 at 11:46am
I doubt it goes up anyways considering the pandemic. The tour, equity or not, should be postponed until 2021-2022.
Posted: 5/5/20 at 11:46am
LizzieCurry said: "This is a public FB status update, so:
https://www.facebook.com/nchernicoff/posts/10216375791015588?__tn__=H-R"
While I completely understand being upset at this and it's completely shady and ridiculous, given that 50,000+ Equity members are out of work right now and are going to be looking for jobs whenever things reopen, not sure if blasting any show as "transphobic crap" (whether accurate or not) is the smartest business decision one could make.
Posted: 5/5/20 at 11:46am
Do we know the equity status of other tours meant to go out this fall? The Cher Show (also rumored to be scrapped), Pretty Woman, Ain't Too Proud, Oklahoma, Hadestown.
We know 1776 is Equity. I assume Aida will be as it's meant to start at Paper Mill.
Posted: 5/5/20 at 12:09pm
matt1982 said: "Do we know the equity status of other tours meant to go out this fall? The Cher Show (also rumored to be scrapped), Pretty Woman, Ain't Too Proud, Oklahoma, Hadestown.
We know 1776 is Equity. I assume Aida will be as it's meant to start at Paper Mill.
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Ain’t Too Proud, Hadestown and Oklahoma are all equity. Not sure about The Cher Show or Pretty Woman. I’m assuming To Kill a Mockingbird will be equity.
Posted: 5/5/20 at 12:48pm
not sure if blasting any show as "transphobic crap" (whether accurate or not) is the smartest business decision one could make.
It's not smart and the show is not transphobic in the least, whomever says that has never seen it.
I don't know who this rando is, but trashing a Broadway show when she is a stage manager on Broadway is incredibly stupid.
Posted: 5/5/20 at 1:58pm
Posted: 5/5/20 at 3:43pm
Posted: 5/5/20 at 4:15pm
SouthernCakes, don't blame Troika for that - blame the ROAD PRESENTERS. That is their doing. People LOVE getting riled about this and rail against the show's producer when, in fact, the real culprit is the local road presenters and they are getting away with minimal blow back.
