Voiceovers on Broadway

[Call_me_jorge]

Voiceovers on Broadway #1

Posted: 3/8/17 at 12:07pm

This question is really about Dear Evan Hansen, but I know it's not the first show to utilize voiceovers.

Do the actors who do the VO's get paid just for their recording session or do they get Equity minimum? Are their union rules on VO's or is it more of a case by case basis? 

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[JBroadway]

Voiceovers on Broadway #2

Posted: 3/8/17 at 12:13pm

I asked the same question a few years ago. Only one response but it's a good one:

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1051296#4335650

[Tag]

Voiceovers on Broadway #3

Posted: 3/8/17 at 12:25pm

RULE 57 (B) An Actor engaged solely for a recording who is not engaged to otherwise perform in the production will be signed to a contract and compensated at no less than two weeks' minimum salary for each 26 weeks' use of the recording.

[Call_me_jorge]

Voiceovers on Broadway #4

Posted: 3/8/17 at 12:29pm

Thanks!

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[LizzieCurry]

Voiceovers on Broadway #5

Posted: 3/8/17 at 12:32pm

Nice. Just imagining that's done well for Matt Stone, Trey Parker, and Rory O'Malley just for the Hill Cumorah scenes in BoM.

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[Call_me_jorge]

Voiceovers on Broadway #6

Posted: 3/8/17 at 12:34pm

Is it a Rory O'Malley VO? I knew about Parker and Stone, but I thought each Moroni actor uses their own voice.

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[LizzieCurry]

Voiceovers on Broadway #7

Posted: 3/8/17 at 12:35pm

No. It's Rory as Moroni, worldwide.

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[adamgreer]

Voiceovers on Broadway #8

Posted: 3/8/17 at 12:36pm

David Ogden Stiers (the original Cogsworth in the film) recorded the narration in the prologue for the Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast.  Given how long that show ran and the information posted above, I imagine that worked out quite well for him. 

[Tag]

Voiceovers on Broadway #9

Posted: 3/8/17 at 12:52pm

^By my calculation, somewhere in the neighbourhood of $100,000 over the 15 year run.  (although he could have made over minimum)  And that's just for the Broadway production.  His voice was used worldwide.

[Drewski Vanderbilt]

Voiceovers on Broadway #10

Posted: 3/8/17 at 1:16pm

What about Alex Bowen? The boy soprano who was the voice on the record in the cabaret revival?

[Tag]

Voiceovers on Broadway #11

Posted: 3/8/17 at 1:20pm

^^^RULE 57 (B) An Actor engaged solely for a recording who is not engaged to otherwise perform in the production will be signed to a contract and compensated at no less than two weeks' minimum salary for each 26 weeks' use of the recording.

[BrodyFosse123]

Voiceovers on Broadway #12

Posted: 3/8/17 at 1:59pm

The following did the recorded narrations for the Broadway revivals of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING:

1995: Walter Cronkite

2011: Anderson Cooper

[dramamama611]

Voiceovers on Broadway #13

Posted: 3/8/17 at 2:29pm

To the best of my knowledge, they did not change the voiceover track from 2nd Stage.  I know Gerard Canonico (he was the male understudy) has jokingly mentioned he's still "on stage" every night.  (He's now a part of the Groundhog Day ensemble.

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[broadwayguy2]

Voiceovers on Broadway #14

Posted: 3/8/17 at 2:50pm

Correction.

In BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, David Ogden Stiers was most certainly not used worldwide.

He did not do any foreign language production - there are readily locatable archive films to prove that. 

He was not even used in the original London production or subsequent UK tour... that voice-over was performed by actor who portrayed Cogsworth in each production, just as Stiers narrated the prologue and voiced Cogsworth in the original film. I am not sure if those productions had a live voice over or recorded, but it was certainly not Stiers. You may easily locate the London cast recording to verify that.

I can not attest to the Toronto or Australian productions of the top of my head.

 

[PatrickDC]

Voiceovers on Broadway #17

Posted: 3/8/17 at 6:49pm

Gregory Peck was the voice of Ziegfeld in THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES. 

And I assume Mel Brooks got paid for the snippet in THE PRODUCERS. 

[seaweedjstubbs]

Voiceovers on Broadway #18

Posted: 3/8/17 at 7:34pm

And John Waters as the voice of the newscaster in Hairspray! Can't remember if his voice was used in the tours or the West End production.

[broadwayguy2]

Voiceovers on Broadway #19

Posted: 3/8/17 at 9:40pm

In HAIRSPRAY, Waters' voice over was used for the Broadway, 1st National, Toronto, Las Vegas, London, and I believe original UL tour.

[HSky]

Voiceovers on Broadway #20

Posted: 3/8/17 at 11:35pm

dramamama611 said: "To the best of my knowledge, they did not change the voiceover track from 2nd Stage.  I know Gerard Canonico (he was the male understudy) has jokingly mentioned he's still "on stage" every night.  (He's now a part of the Groundhog Day ensemble."

The cast listing is identical. 6 of the names have been listed going back to Arena Stage.