What time do the actors have to report to the theatres to get paid during the strike?
What time do the actors have to report to the theatres to get paid during the strike?
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#1What time do the actors have to report to the theatres to get paid during the strike?
Posted: 11/12/07 at 1:18am
I was wondering what time the actors had to report to the theatres during the strike to get paid. I was there on saturday night around six thirty and I did join the picket line at the Majestic but it was just the stage hands and no actors there.
I am not asking this because of the " I wanna use this as a time to stage door." thing. I know a couple of people in different shows and I wanna see if I can stop by show my support say hi and all that good stuff.
NYC_or_Bust
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/8/05
#2re: What time do the actors have to report to the theatres to get paid during the strike?
Posted: 11/12/07 at 1:21amread the latest article by playbill...
#2re: What time do the actors have to report to the theatres to get paid during the strike?
Posted: 11/12/07 at 1:21am
"The leadership of Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers, has instructed its members to show up for work at half-hour — 30 minutes before curtain — and sign in, proving they were ready and able to work."
From Playbill:
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/112694.html
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COOOOLkid
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#3re: What time do the actors have to report to the theatres to get paid during the strike?
Posted: 11/12/07 at 1:25am
I am not asking this because of the " I wanna use this as a time to stage door." thing.
Isn't that what you're exactly doing?
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#4re: What time do the actors have to report to the theatres to get paid duri
Posted: 11/12/07 at 1:34am
No Coolkid,
Difference between what I am doing and that is very simple. I actually know people in some of the shows it won't be a typicle " O my god I'm your biggest fan. Can I have your autograph??" It will be more along the lines of " Hey how are you? how's your family? How are things?" type of a discussion.
#5re: What time do the actors have to report to the theatres to get paid duri
Posted: 11/12/07 at 1:46amYeah, that kind of stuff never happens at the stage door either.
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#6re: What time do the actors have to report to the theatres to get paid duri
Posted: 11/12/07 at 1:51am
So basically you are using this as a time to stage door.
#7re: What time do the actors have to report to the theatres to get paid duri
Posted: 11/12/07 at 3:41amJust out of curiosity, and I'm not trying to be entirely snarky... but if you know people, why not just ask them?
#8re: What time do the actors have to report to the theatres to get paid duri
Posted: 11/12/07 at 4:35am
Well, there are people you "know" and then people you "know well" I would suppose. I think he means he's leaving the Playbill's at home. I hope he brings the donuts. I mean, Jay Leno at least did that much for peoples, he "knows". 
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#9re: What time do the actors have to report to the theatres to get paid duri
Posted: 11/12/07 at 8:38amI couldn't tell if tkt2ride wasinsulting me or not cus it is just to early. But, in case you were wondering I send out emails to the ones that I did know. I just figured that they canbe slow sometimes to answer their emails. So I figured that I could get a quicker response here. And I did.
Fosse76
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/05
#10re: What time do the actors have to report to the theatres to get paid duri
Posted: 11/12/07 at 11:21amALL employees were told by their respective unions to show up at their normal call times. And please keep in mind, no one is getting full pay for showing up. They are being reimbursed by the stagehands union's strike fund, and the most that can be legally distributed is $405/week, which is New York State's maximum unemployment allowance.
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