Tour contracts?

[matineeidol2013]

Posted: 9/29/09 at 11:18pm

Can anybody explain how tour contracts work? Tier B, C, it's all so foreign to me! Just wondering out of curiosity.

[BrianS]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 6:41am

http://www.actorsequity.org/library/library.asp?cat=3

Check out the production contract.

[SakeDad]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 7:08am

Updated On: 10/2/09 at 07:08 AM

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 9:02am

On tours, producers ask for a guarantee from presenters that usually is enough to cover their running costs for however long they will be there, then some percentage of the profit above that. It's a very complicated formula.

But as costs kept going up and tours kept getting bigger, that guarantee kept going up, which means they could not go into certain markets where the presenter could not afford that. A tour can't survive if it can only play the big cities.

Tiers were a way to lower the costs to try to get back into those towns that could not afford the large guarantee. In the tiers, actors' wages are based on the guarantee. If it's a smaller guarantee, you pay the actors less (thereby lowering your costs and allowing you to survive on the smaller guarantee).

There's probably something about giving the actors a little more if the show does really well and makes a huge profit, but I don't know that part.

[BrianS]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 9:42am

Sakedad, how is that a lousy answer? I prefer guiding people to the source rather than answering questions piecemeal. There are 8 pages explaining tiered contracts (starting at 147) in the production contract. And the contract listed ends 6/08. Did you even go to Equity's website before trashing it?

[roadmixer]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 5:39pm

I'm sure that Equity will be thrilled that this link is posted since it apparently bypasses the "Members Only" sign-in on the website. Maybe they should fix that...

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 5:44pm

Equity's contracts are available to the public on their website. The link Brian posted is right on the main page, with no login.

[roadmixer]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 6:20pm

I stand corrected...Idol 2013

[SakeDad]

Posted: 10/2/09 at 7:37am

Updated On: 10/2/09 at 07:37 AM