Types of Professional Theatre contracts?

[matineeidol2013]

Posted: 8/8/10 at 11:44am

I was just on Playbill looking at job listings. The tour of South Pacific lists a "Tier D" contract. What other types of contracts are there, and what's the difference between them?

Thanks in advance!

Updated On: 8/8/10 at 11:44 AM

[Jon]

Posted: 8/8/10 at 12:31pm

Check out the Actor's Equity website
AEA website

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 8/8/10 at 1:41pm

Just a quick glance at the document library on the Equity website will show you that your question is far too general for anything short of a thesis length essay.

For a quicker review of each contract, including links to salaries and rates, go to this portion of the website: http://www.actorsequity.org/AboutEquity/contracts.asp

[CapnHook]

Posted: 8/8/10 at 7:14pm

To directly answer your question, there are 45 types of Equity CONTRACTS. The "Tier" references how many seats the venue holds. The more seats in the theater, the higher the Minimum Weekly Salary.

There is Tier B, Tier C, and Tier D. Tier D pays the lowest minimum of the three.

I'm having difficulty finding where the description of tiered contracts are and what, specifically, the differences are constructed of...

[matineeidol2013]

Posted: 8/8/10 at 7:23pm

Thank you for the responses! To be more specific, the types of tiers is what I was interested in. So thank you CapnHook =D

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 8/8/10 at 7:49pm

The Production Contract Tiers (which is what we are talking about in regards to South Pacific) have nothing to do with seating capacity. The tiers are determined by the average guarantee the producers are charging. The guarantee is the amount that the presenters pay to the producers to bring a show into their venue.

[CapnHook]

Posted: 8/8/10 at 8:02pm

I was just coming back to say that I mistook another contract's definition of Tiers with the Equity/League Production contract.

AEA AGMA SM, whose user name is also a kind of contract, is correct.