Working at Bway Theatres

When you work at a Broadway Theatre such as the Neil Simon, does that mean you work for the Neil Simon or for Hairspray? Does it just depend on the job? So if you sell merchandise, you work for Hairspray, but ushering is for the theatre. What is correct?

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Updated On: 8/29/03 at 06:37 PM

I meant more merchandise retailers and people like that.

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The merchandising people are usually brought in by the production and not the house.

I have a friend who used to work for a company (I can't remember the name) who did the merchandising for Jekyll and Hyde and a few others.
The show (i.e. producers, etc.) contract out a company to distribute the merchandise at the show. On any given week, he would work at up to 4 shows, selling stuff.
So, in that respect, those people work for the show. But if I'm not mistaken, there are only a handful of companies like that, so let's say you work for them and all the shows that they sell stuff for close, it's only a matter of time before a new show "hires" that company to sell THEIR stuff.
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Yes, unless she works for Disney, in which case maybe they only use themselves for their 3 shows... I don't know how that works, but yes, if she works for 2 different shows, in reality, she's probably working for 1 company that does more than 1 show.
Maybe just PM her... it would be a lot easier.

My best friend works as a bartender for the Nederlander Theatres. She's usually at the Richard Rodgers, but if a show closes there, they move her to a different theatre in the meantime.

My friend was a non-union usher at Urinetown for a while. She made $35 a show if she stayed the entire time and $25 for leaving after intermission. Hardly money to live off of in NYC, but she enjoyed it all the same.

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